From: fred <fred>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:46:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: lilypond-1.0.1
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+Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font engraving 
+Subject: GNU LilyPond 1.0 released - The Music Typesetter
+
+GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
+
+
+WHAT IS LilyPond?
+
+LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter.  This program can print
+beautiful sheet music from a music definition file.  It can also play
+performances to a MIDI file.
+
+
+WHAT'S NEW SINCE VERSION 0.1?
+
+* LilyPond now includes a completely new music font: the Feta font.  
+  We were quite disappointed with available music fonts, so we rolled
+  our own.  We did our best to copy the best symbol designs available,
+  and we think that we've succeeded in doing so.  We're proud of the
+  result, and we hope you agree, so go check it out!
+
+* More elegant output due to 
+
+	* more sophisticated beam/slur formatting
+	* better spacing
+	* better line breaking
+	* better font design
+	* PostScript output for variable symbols
+
+* Lots of bugfixes
+
+* More robust, flexible and tweakable design
+
+* Better MIDI file importing
+
+* Easier to use due to better shell scripts and input format
+enhancements
+
+* MusixTeX is not needed anymore
+
+* Faster
+
+
+
+FEATURES
+
+* Multiple staffs, polyphonic music (more voices on one staff),
+Polymetric music.
+
+* Support for full orchestral score: Hara_kiri systems (lines with
+only rests are automatically skipped), multi-measure rests, bar
+numbering, brackets at the left.
+
+* Optimal beam slopes, slur/notehead collision resolution, dashed
+slurs. Formatting parameters are runtime tunable
+
+* Very beautiful symbols.  Variable size symbols generated on the fly
+as embedded postscript.
+
+* MIDI output
+
+* Optimal linebreaking, manual intervention possible.  Linelength is
+settable per line.
+
+* Readable yet very fast to type input language.  With configurable
+note names and identifiers.  Comes with an emacs-mode
+
+* With lots of examples (among others a fragment of Van Beethoven's
+Coriolan, J.S.Bach Cello Suite II, F. Schubert "Leise flehen meine
+Lieder")
+
+* Runs on UNIX and Windows-32.
+
+* Easy generation of titling.
+
+* WWW browsable documentation.
+
+* Support for Urtext: separation of modern and original interpretation.
+
+* Polyphonic music (with automatic collision resolution)
+
+* Spacing and collision resolution of accidentals and syllables is
+done automatically
+
+* Internationalisation support (Italian, Dutch)
+
+* Multiple font sizes within one piece
+
+* Integration with LaTeX and YODL
+
+
+MORE INFO
+
+Sources for this project are on
+
+	ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
+	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/
+
+More detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at
+
+	http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
+