\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
@setfilename index.info
-@settitle index
+@settitle LilyPond homepage
+
+@html
+<!--- @@WEB-TITLE@@=GNU Music Typesetter Homepage --->
+@end html
@node Top, , , (dir)
@top
-
-@unnumbered LilyPond -- The GNU Project Music Typesetter
-
-
@html
-<img src="Documentation/pictures/out-www/lelie-logo.png">
+<p align=center>
+<a href="Documentation/pictures/out-www/lelie-logo.png">
+<img border=0 src="Documentation/pictures/out-www/lelie-logo.png"
+ alt="[picture of lily-cello-girl]">
+</a>
@end html
-@c something breaks on 3.12 f
-
-
-
-LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
-using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of
-the GNU Project.
+@unnumberedsec What is LilyPond? What can it do for you?
+LilyPond prints beautiful sheet music. It produces music notation from
+a description file. It excels at typesetting classical music, but you
+can also print pop-songs.
-@unnumberedsec Sheet music
-
-
-
+LilyPond input is @b{plain text}. So, you can use your favorite text
+editor to enter it, you can put it in mail or embed it in an article like
+this:
@quotation
-@mudela[fragment]
- \relative c'' { \key es; r8 [c16 b] [c8 g] [as c16 b] [c8 d] | g,4 }
-@end mudela
+@lilypond[fragment,verbatim, relative 1]
+\key c \minor r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4
+@end lilypond
@end quotation
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@item @uref{./input/out-www/index.html,Examples}:
-
-simple pieces, tests and bugs. MIDI, PNG, PostScript, and Source.
-
-@item @uref{./mutopia/out-www/index.html,Music in Mutopia}:
-
-LilyPond handling real music. MIDI, view PNG, PostScript, and Source.
-@end itemize
-
-@unnumberedsec More information
-
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item @uref{Documentation/out-www/index.html, Documentation}
-@item @uref{Documentation/out-www/mail.html,Mailing Lists}
-@item @uref{./docxx/index.html,Source code documentation}
-@end itemize
-
-@unnumberedsec Sites
-
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/lilypond} LilyPond is part of the GNU
-project. The webpages for the stable version reside at GNU.
-
-@item @uref{http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/} Han-Wen's site
-has the development pages.
-@item @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/} Eric's mirror
-@item @uref{http://home.austin.rr.com/jbr/jeff/lilypond/} Jeff's Windows NT Distribution site
-@end itemize
-
-@ignore
-@unnumberedsec NEWS
-
-
-This is what the latest version brings:
-@example
-
-top_of_NEWS
-
-@end example
-@end ignore
-
-@unnumberedsec Download
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/}
-@item @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/}
- Eric Praetzel was kind enough to provide a mirror of both the website
- and the ftp site.
-@item @uref{ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/}
- A mirror of the FTP site. Updated at 0:00 MET daily.
-@item @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/RPMS/} RedHat binary
-@item @uref{ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/tex} Debian binary
-@item @uref{http://home.austin.rr.com/jbr/jeff/lilypond/} Windows NT binary
-@item @uref{http://linux.umbc.edu/software/lilypond/rpms/} i386 RPM.
-@item @uref{ftp://ftp.freshmeat.net/pub/rpms/lilypond/} i386 RPM.
-@end itemize
-
-@unnumberedsubsec Webmaster's Disclaimer
-
-These pages were entirely created from the LilyPond package-sources.
-Sorry for poor look they have: we want to be hacking at LilyPond, and
-not at the webpages. If you want to volunteer for making shazzy
-webpages, then please mail us!
-
-Note: These pages are created from a @strong{development snapshots} of
-LilyPond, and it might even be created even from an unreleased
-development version. The version of this webpage is printed at the
-bottom.
-
-
-
-
+Or you can use it to print music from other programs, using one of the
+numerous input filters.
+
+LilyPond output looks @b{beautiful}. The font and the layout algorithms
+were inspired by engraved music, so you can expect that same clear and
+elegant look from your LilyPond output. And if anything is not to your
+liking, you can tweak almost everything.
+
+LilyPond is @b{free software}. It is part of the
+@uref{http://www.gnu.org/,GNU Project}. It is licensed under GNU General
+Public License, so you can use, modify and redistribute the program with
+almost no restrictions.
+
+
+LilyPond has a development version and a stable version. This webpage is
+for the @b{development} release. This release contains experimental and
+often buggy code, so use it only if you need special new features. On
+the other hand, stable releases don't change much, and are essentially
+bug-free. You can access the website for the stable releases
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/stable, here}.
+
+@unnumberedsec Want to know more?
+
+If you want to know more, visit the
+@uref{Documentation/out-www/index.html, documentation page}. If you
+want to see some sheet music, then have a look at the
+@uref{examples.html, examples}. For even more sheet music, head over
+to @uref{http://www.mutopiaproject.org, the mutopia project}.
@bye
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