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+@comment @c -*-texinfo-*-
 
 @node Preface
-@chapter Preface
+@unnumbered Preface
 
-[talk about:
 
-why lily, history, about manual, call for feedback on manual and
-program.
-Inspiration from ../misc/ ? 
-]
+It must have been during a rehearsal of the EJE (Eindhoven Youth
+Orchestra), somewhere in 1995 that Jan, one of the cranked violists told
+Han-Wen, one of the distorted french horn players, about the grand new
+project he was working on.  It was an automated system for printing
+music (to be precise, it was MPP, a preprocessor for MusiXTeX).  As it
+happened, Han-Wen accidentally wanted to print out some parts from a
+score, so he started looking at the software, and he quickly got hooked.
+It was soon decided that MPP was a dead end. After lots of
+philosophizing and heated e-mail exchanges Han-Wen started LilyPond in
+1996.  This time, Jan got sucked into Han-Wen's new project.
+
+
+[TODO some more here.]
+
+LilyPond would have been a far less useful program without the input
+of incountable number of individuals. We would like to thank all users
+that sent bugreports, gave suggestions or contributed code.  We would
+especially like to thank the following people: Jean-Baptiste Lamy for
+providing Tablature support, Mats Bengtsson for the incountable newbie
+questions that he answered on the mailing list.  Chris Jackson for
+various piano support code, Heikki Junes for taking care of the
+Emacs-mode, Glen Prideaux for implementing lyric-phrasing.  Juergen
+Reuter for the ancient notation support, Rune Zedeler for many code
+improvements All translators that helped translate the error messages.
+Jeremie Lumbroso, 
+
+@ignore
+  should mention many more people, these are from AUTHORS
+@end ignore
+
+
+We always maintain that wrote this program to satisfy our curiosity,
+to have fun together, to help people, but ultimately, LilyPond is a
+way to express our deep love for music. May it help you create lots of
+beautiful music!
+
+Han-Wen and Jan
+
+Utrecht/Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 2002.
+