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-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.
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-1: VERSIONING
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- 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.
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-2: REQUIREMENTS
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- 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.
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-3: INSTALLATION
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- 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
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-4: DOCUMENTATION
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- 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
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-5: COMMENTS
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- 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.
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-6: DOZE
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- 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
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-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.
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-7: CAVEATS
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- * 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
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- rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
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-a script to do this for you is in bin/cleanfonts.sh
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-8: CDROM DISTRIBUTIONS
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-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.