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-@c @unnumberedsec LilyPond -- The GNU Project Music Typesetter
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@unnumberedsec What is LilyPond?
-LilyPond is a music typesetting. It produces beautiful sheet music
+@c also use keywords: music notation software
+LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
using a high level description file as input. It excels at typesetting
classical music, but you can also print pop-songs. With LilyPond we
hope to make music publication software available to anyone on the
editor to enter it, you can put it in mail or embed it in an article like
this:
-@quotation
+
@lilypond[fragment,verbatim]
-\relative c'' { \key c \minor; r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4 }
+\relative c'' { \key c \minor r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4 }
@end lilypond
-@end quotation
The output looks very good: 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 you don't like the
looks, you can tweak almost everything.
-The program also has limited MIDI functionality: you can write MIDI files with
-lilypond, and we have a simple MIDI to lilypond conversion tool,
-@file{midi2ly}. Conversion tools for PMX, MUP, ABC, Finale and Musedata are
-also included.
+The program also has limited MIDI functionality: you can write MIDI
+files with lilypond. You can also import files in PMX, MUP, MIDI, ABC,
+Finale and Musedata format.
LilyPond is free software. It is licensed under GNU General Public
License, so you can use, modify and redistribute the program with
examples} and @uref{long-examples.html,longer examples}. The
examples include sound bites in MIDI, pictures in PNG, printable scores
in PostScript, and LilyPond input. Others use LilyPond too, and have put
-scores on the web. Head over to @uref{http://appel.lilypond.org/wiki/index.php?DownloadLilyPondScores}
-@uref{http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/harpsichord.html,John
-Sankey}, harpsichordist to the internet, is typesetting the complete
-@uref{http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/scarlattidwn.html,sonatas
-by Scarlatti}. Jeff Covey, guitar player and overall nice guy, is
-putting @uref{http://www4.smart.net/~jcovey/scores/,guitar music} on the
-net. The @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Mutopia/,Mutopia project} is an
-archive of public domain sheet music under construction. Dirk Lattermann
-also put some works @uref{http://www.alqualonde.de/lilypond.html,on the
-web}.
+scores on the web. Head over to @uref{http://appel.lilypond.org/wiki?DownloadLilyPondScores}
@html
<a name="download-source">
@item Download stable releases at
@uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/lilypond/,GNU}
@item Download development releases from
-@uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/,the source}
-@item @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/, by http (Canadian
-mirror)} and
-@uref{ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/, ftp (Canadian mirror)}
-@item
-@uref{ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/, mirror (Europe)}
+@uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/, by FTP} and
+@uref{http://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/, by HTTP}.
+@item @uref{ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/, ftp (Canadian mirror)}
+@item @uref{ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/, mirror (Europe)}
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Installing and compiling requires many additional packages, which are
@item @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/RPMS/, RedHat i386}
@item @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/RPMS/ppc, LinuxPPC}
@item
-@uref{ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/tex,
-Debian GNU/Linux i386}
+@uref{ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lilypond,
+Debian GNU/Linux Stable}
@item
-@uref{ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-powerpc/tex,
-Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC}
+@uref{ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lilypond1.3,
+Debian GNU/Linux Unstable}
@item @uref{http://home.austin.rr.com/jbr/jeff/lilypond/, Windows Stable}
@item @uref{http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows, Windows
Testing}
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@unnumberedsec Mailing lists
-If you have questions, do write to the mailing lists!
- (But don't forget to read the
-@uref{http://appel.dyndns.org/wiki?LilyPondFaqs,
-Frequently Asked Questions} first.)
+If you have questions, do write to the mailing lists. But don't forget
+to read the @uref{Documentation/topdocs/out-www/FAQ.html,Very Frequently
+Asked Questions} and @uref{http://appel.dyndns.org/wiki?LilyPondFaqs,
+Frequently Asked Questions} first.
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