-This is the toplevel README to LilyPond
- LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. This program can print
-beautiful sheet music from a music definition file. It can also play
-mechanical performances to a MIDI file. Features include multiple
-staffs, meters, clefs, keys, lyrics, versatile input language, cadenzas,
-beams, slurs, triplets, formatting scores, part extraction. It includes
-a nice font of musical symbols.
-1: VERSIONING
-if you have downloaded a
- *.pre*
-version, then this is version is *not* meant for producing nice output
-(but to keep your patchsets up to date). It might not even compile.
+This is the toplevel README to LilyPond LilyPond is the GNU
+Project music typesetter. This program can print beautiful
+sheet music from a music definition file. It can also play
+mechanical performances to a MIDI file. Features include
+multiple staffs, meters, clefs, keys, lyrics, versatile
+input language, cadenzas, beams, slurs, triplets, formatting
+scores, part extraction. It includes a nice font of musical
+symbols.
-2: REQUIREMENTS
+1: VERSIONING
+
+ if you have downloaded a *.pre* version, then this is
+version is *not* meant for producing nice output (but to
+keep your patchsets up to date). It might not even compile.
+The same goes for a version with a 4th version number, eg
+1.2.3.mypatch2 It will be safer if you download 1.2.3 or
+wait for 1.2.4.
-For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some additional
-packages. Please refer to the installation instructions.
+2: REQUIREMENTS
-NOTE: If you downloaded a binary (.rpm or a W95/NT .zip file), then
-you don't have to compile LilyPond.
+ For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need
+some additional packages. Please refer to the installation
+instructions. NOTE: If you downloaded a binary (.rpm or a
+W95/NT .zip file), then you don't have to compile LilyPond.
3: INSTALLATION
-For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL instructions are
-in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.txt
-
-The process is fairly straightforward, but chances are that you have
-to specify directories for TeX to configure: this is done with
-the options --enable-tex-dir and --enable-mf-dir
+ For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL
+instructions are in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.txt
+The process is fairly straightforward, but chances are that
+you have to specify directories for to configure: this is
+done with the options --enable-tex-dir and --enable-mf-dir
4: DOCUMENTATION
-The real documentation is the directory Documentation/
+ The real documentation is the directory Documentation/
+To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run config-
+ure first, and then do this: make doc You can also simply
+read the .yo sources. They are ASCII text. The complete
+documentation is accessible in formatted form at the website
+http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
-To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run configure first,
-and then do this:
+5: COMMENTS
- make doc
+ LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. We
+do appreciate criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc.
+Please send your e-mail to one of the MAILING LISTS and not
+to us personally. See Documentation/links.yo for more info.
-You can also simply read the .yo sources. They are ASCII text.
-The complete documentation is accessible in formatted form at the
-website http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
+6: WINDOWS 32
-5: COMMENTS
+ If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Win-
+dow32 distribution (lilypond-*.zip), then it is advisable to
+also download the source package, since it might contain
-LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. We do appreciate
-criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc.
- Please send your e-mail to one of the MAILING LISTS
+more documentation ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/ If
+you decide to build LilyPond from source, please read the
+INSTALL.txt document first, especially the Windows NT/95
+section.
-and not to us personally. See Documentation/links.yo for more info.
+7: CAVEATS
-6: DOZE
+ * Please read the file BUGS for some ugly bugs. This
+especially applies Linux-Intel unix users. * If you have
+installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
+files, eg
-If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution
-(lilypond-*.zip), then it is advisable to also download the source
-package, since it might contain more documentation
-ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/
-If you decide to build LilyPond from source, please read the INSTALL.txt
-document first, especially the Windows NT/95 section.
-7: CAVEATS
-* Please read the file BUGS for some ugly bugs. This especially applies
-Linux-Intel unix users.
+ rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
+
+
-* If you have installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
-files, eg
-rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
a script to do this for you is in bin/cleanfonts.sh
+
8: CDROM DISTRIBUTIONS
-If you have received LilyPond on a cdrom, chances are that development
-has moved a some patchlevels up. If possible, please check the latest
-version of LilyPond before reporting bugs.
+
+If you have received LilyPond on a cdrom, chances are that
+development has moved a some patchlevels up. If possible,
+please check the latest version of LilyPond before reporting
+bugs.
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