@divClass{column-center-top}
-@subheading Elegance
-@subsubheading Excellent classical engraving
+@subheading Excellent classical engraving
@imageFloat{flat-design,png,right}
@ref{Essay}.
+@divEnd
-@subsubheading Effective layout choices
+@divClass{column-center-top}
+@subheading Text input
-Spend less time with tweaking the output; LilyPond gets the
-formatting correct right from the start. It determines spacing by
-itself, and breaks lines and pages to provide a tight and uniform
-layout. Clashes between lyrics, notes, and chords are resolved
-and slurs and beams are sloped, automatically!
+@subsubheading Everything is explicit
+
+LilyPond processes text input, which contains all information
+about the @emph{content} of your score and can easily be read
+by any human or another program. There are no obscure
+settings hidden behind menu items and binary file storage.
+
+Read more about this concept on @ref{Text input}.
+@subsubheading Tweaks are robust and traceable
+
+If you have to change anything in the layout this tweak will
+also be explicitly visible in the input file in human-readable
+form, so you will always be able to retrace what you've done.
+If you should accidentally break anything you can easily revert
+or modify any decision without being at the mercy of an
+@emph{Undo} function.
+
+
+@subsubheading Text files are failure- and future-proof
+
+Text files are very robust against file corruption. And as they are
+human-readable, you will always be able to interpret them even if
+you don't have access to the programs that created them.
+
+
+@subsubheading Manage your scores with version control
+
+Text files are applicable to be managed by version control. Go
+for it and experience infinite and selective undo/redo mechanisms
+and the full development history of your scores. Version control
+may also open up new (collaborative) workflows for you.
+
@divEnd
-@divClass{color2}
-@subheading Ease of use
+@divClass{column-center-top}
+@subheading Usability
@imageFloat{lilypond-book,png,right}
-@subsubheading Text-based input
-LilyPond takes ASCII input, which you can produce in your favorite
-text editor, quickly and comfortably. The input contains all the
-information, so there is no need to remember complex command sequences:
-simply save a file for later reference.
+@subsubheading Effective layout choices
+
+Spend less time with tweaking the output; LilyPond gets the
+formatting correct right from the start. It determines spacing by
+itself, and breaks lines and pages to provide a tight and uniform
+layout. Clashes between lyrics, notes, and chords are resolved
+and slurs and beams are sloped, automatically!
+
@subsubheading Mix music and text
Put fragments of music into texts without cutting and pasting
-pictures. Integrate music into @LaTeX{} and HTML seamlessly, or add
-music to OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice with OOoLilyPond. Plugins are
+pictures. Integrate music into @LaTeX{} or HTML seamlessly, or add
+music to OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice with OOoLilyPond. Plugins are
also available to allow LilyPond code in various blogs and wikis, making
online collaboration possible.
who are totally blind can use screen-reading software to write
LilyPond files -- an impossible task in graphical-based
score-writing programs.
+You can see a spectacular score on @ref{Examples}.
+
+@subsubheading Editor diversity
+
+Several developers, themselves active LilyPond users,
+have written tools specifically aimed at making the process of editing
+LilyPond files faster and more effective; you are not tied to
+a single user interface but can use different tools for different tasks.
+You can even use a full-fledged LilyPond editor at home and use your
+mobile phone's notepad app to edit the files on the go. For some examples,
+see @ref{Easier editing}.
+@c TODO: Change this when the new pages have been written and pushed
+
+
+@divEnd
+
+@divClass{column-center-top}
+
+@subheading Extensible design
+
+@subsubheading Easy management of style sheets
+
+All layout settings can be changed to suit your personal typographical
+taste. So you can easily write style sheets that change every aspect of
+LilyPond scores' default appearance. As these are also written as text
+and can be stored in separate files you can simply switch between two
+stylesheets to produce scores with a completely different appearance or
+layout.
+You want to print a score on A4 paper and project it with a beamer,
+one system per page? LilyPond's layout engine will effortlessly produce
+both from the same input.
-@subsubheading Extensible design
+@subsubheading Add your own functions
-All settings can be changed to suit your personal typographical
-taste. If that still is not enough, there is always the built-in
-scripting language Scheme, a dialect of the powerful language
-LISP. Settings, variables and functions are all documented in the
+If that still is not enough, there is always the built-in
+scripting language Scheme, which can access LilyPond's layout
+engine at the same level as LilyPond itself does, making it
+a @emph{very} powerful tool.
+Settings, variables and functions are all documented in the
comprehensive program reference manual.
+@subsubheading Process scores programmatically
+
+LilyPond input files can fully be edited or even generated by programs
+and scripts. This can for example be used for algorithmical composition.
+But you can also access the musical content for analysis, or manage
+input fragments in a database. There are no limitations except your
+imagination.
+
+
+@subsubheading Create new tools using LilyPond
+
+As LilyPond isn't a monolithic GUI program but a command line tool it
+can be used from within other applications too. This way it is possible
+to equip tools like e.g. web applications with LilyPond's engraving
+power. There already exist several online tools using LilyPond.
+
+@c (TBD: Add a link to the new @ref{Applications} page.
+
+
@divEnd
-@divClass{color3}
+@divClass{column-center-top}
@subheading Environment
@imageFloat{frescobaldi-lilypond-editor-small,png,right}
-@subsubheading Free software
-
-LilyPond can be downloaded free of charge! Yep - It's free. Get
-it from the download page.
-
-It's also free (as in @qq{speech}) software. It comes with source
-code, and permission to change and copy it. So, are you irritated
-by a bug, or yearning for a feature? Simply add it yourself, or
-pay someone else to do it.
@subsubheading Excellent support
LilyPond runs on all popular platforms: GNU/Linux, MacOS X, and
Windows. LilyPond comes with extensive documentation and hundreds
of example files. There is an active user community answering
-questions on the lilypond-user mailing list, while the development
-team makes sure that problems are solved quickly.
+questions on the lilypond-user mailing list, offering you friendly
+help. The response time is usually very short, and often brillant
+solutions to reported problems are developed. Thanks to the close
+interaction with the development team such solutions are regularly
+included in LilyPond itself.
+Read more in @ref{Community}.
-@subsubheading Enhanced editors
+@subsubheading Free software
+LilyPond can be downloaded free of charge! Yep - It's free. Get
+it from the download page.
-Several developers, themselves active LilyPond users, have also
-written tools specifically aimed at making the process of editing
-LilyPond files faster and more effective. For some examples, see
-@ref{Easier editing}.
+It's also free (as in @qq{speech}) software. It comes with source
+code, and permission to change and copy it. So, are you irritated
+by a bug, or yearning for a feature? Simply add it yourself, or
+pay someone else to do it.
+Read more on @ref{Freedom}.
@divEnd
@divClass{column-center-bottom}
@node Examples
@unnumberedsec Examples
+@divClass{column-center-top}
+
+@subheading Beautiful examples
+
LilyPond is a powerful and flexible tool for engraving tasks of
all kinds. Please browse our gallery of examples and be inspired!
@exampleImage{orchestra}
@newsEnd
+@divEnd
@divClass{column-center-bottom}
@subheading Where now?
@node Productions
@unnumberedsec Productions
+@divClass{column-center-top}
+
+@subheading Productions using LilyPond
+
+Here you can read about people who actually use LilyPond
+in their productions, be it for performances of their
+music or as published scores.
+
+@divEnd
+
@divClass{column-left-top}
@subheading Concerts
@divClass{keep-bullets}
@itemize
+@item
+Joe Smeets created sheet music for the children's book @emph{Zing Mee}
+(@emph{Sing along}) by Annie M.G. published by Querido -- ISBN
+9789045106205:
+@uref{http://www.queridokinderenjeugdboeken.nl/web/Boek.htm?dbid=18954&typeofpage=134707, www.queridokinderenjeugdboeken.nl}; choir
+rehearsal scores for the Dutch translation of Benjamin Britten's
+@emph{Saint Nicolas} performed by @emph{Muziektheater Hollands Diep} in
+2011.
+@uref{http://www.muziektheaterhollandsdiep.nl/nl/voorstellingen/sint_nicolaas_leeft, www.muziektheaterhollandsdiep.nl}; and is currently
+working on the score and parts for an arrangement of Moussurgsky's
+@emph{Boris Godounov} for wind quartet, piano and percussion. To be
+performed in 2014, again by @emph{Muziektheater Hollands Diep}.
+
@item
A critical edition of Tommaso Traetta's @emph{Enea nel Lazio (1760)},
opera series with libretto by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi, in four
@uref{http://www.tunefl.com}
With tunefl you can typeset your scores directly online
-without needing to install lilypond locally. It allows
+without needing to install LilyPond locally. It allows
trying out all the program's features using a convenient
web interface.
@item
@uref{http://lilycomp.sourceforge.net, LilyComp} is a graphical
note entry program, acting much like a number-pad which produces
-lilypond notes.
+LilyPond notes.
@end itemize
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