1 Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font
2 Subject: LilyPond 0.2 released - The GNU Project music typesetter
4 GNU LilyPond - The GNU Project Music Typesetter
7 ``WHAT IS GNU LilyPond?''
9 GNU LilyPond is the GNU Project Music typesetter: it reads a music
10 definition file and outputs formatted sheet music to a TeX file or
11 (mechanical) performances to MIDI files.
16 We want to create tools to produce production quality scores and parts
17 of public domain music.
22 * LilyPond now includes a completely rewritten font: the Feta font.
23 We did our best to copy the best symbol designs available and We're
24 proud of the result. We hope you agree, so go check it out!
26 * More elegant output due to
31 * PostScript output for variable symbols.
35 * More robust, flexible, tweakable design
37 * Better MIDI importing
39 * Easier to use due to better scripts and input format enhancements.
41 * MusixTeX not needed anymore
46 ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
47 customizable notenames.
49 MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.
50 MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.
52 Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have a different meters.
53 Multiple voices within one staff (up to four handled graciously);
54 beams optionally shared between voices. Multiple scores within one
55 input file. Each score is output to a different file.
57 Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text),
58 general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition,
59 dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style), clef changes, meter
60 changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars.
62 Integration with LaTeX through Perl scripts.
67 Sources for this project are on
69 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
70 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/ (US)
72 More detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at
74 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html