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-@c @unnumberedsec LilyPond -- The GNU Project Music Typesetter
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@unnumberedsec What is LilyPond?
-LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using
-a high level description file as input. It excels at typesetting
+@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
internet.
editor to enter it, you can put it in mail or embed it in an article like
this:
-@quotation
-@mudela[fragment,verbatim]
-\relative c'' { \key c \minor; r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4 }
-@end mudela
-@end quotation
+
+@lilypond[fragment,verbatim]
+\relative c'' { \key c \minor r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4 }
+@end lilypond
The output looks very good: the font and the layout algorithms were
inspired by engraved music, so you can expect that same clear and
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}.
+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
@uref{Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond.html, manual} or other
@uref{Documentation/out-www/index.html, documentation}.
-
-
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<a name="music">
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the examples included. We have @uref{short-examples.html,short
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.
-@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 a
-large archive of public domain sheet music under construction. Dirk
-Lattermann also put some works
-@uref{http://www.alqualonde.de/lilypond.html,on the web}.
+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?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.dyndns.org/lilypond/gnu-windows, Windows
+@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{Documentation/out-www/faq.html,
-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.
@itemize @bullet
-@item @samp{info-gnu-music@@gnu.org} (@uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnu-music@@gnu.org,archive})
- is a moderated list for information on the GNU Music project, to
- subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to
- info-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org.
+@item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-music,info-gnu-music@@gnu.org}
+is a low-volume list for information on the GNU Music project.
This list is moderated; ask
@email{drl@@gnu.org, David R. Linn} or
- @email{hanwen@@cs.uu.nl, Han-Wen} to send announcements for this
-list.
-
+ @email{hanwen@@cs.uu.nl, Han-Wen} to send announcements for this list.
+@item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-music,help-gnu-music@@gnu.org}
+ For help with using LilyPond.
+@item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-music,bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org}
+If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list.
-@item @samp{help-gnu-music@@gnu.org} (@uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/help-gnu-music@@gnu.org,archive}).
- For help with LilyPond music project. To subscribe: send
- mail with subject "subscribe" to
- @email{help-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org}
-
-@item @samp{bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org} (@uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org,archive})
- If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list. If you
-want to know about bugs, subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe"
-to @email{bug-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org}.
Please include in your bugreport the version of LilyPond that
they tend to be very big and don't help with describing the problem.
-@item @samp{gnu-music-discuss@@gnu.org} (@uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/gnu-music-discuss@@gnu.org,archive})
- For discussions concerning LilyPond, to subscribe: send
- mail with subject "subscribe" to
- @email{gnu-music-discuss-request@@gnu.org}.
-
-
+@item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-music-discuss,gnu-music-discuss@@gnu.org}
+ For discussions concerning LilyPond.
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-substitute @code{unsubscribe} where you would put @code{subscribe}.
-
-@unnumberedsubsec Webmaster's Disclaimer
-
These pages were entirely created from a @strong{development snapshot}
of the LilyPond package. The version of this webpage is printed at the
bottom.