1 .TH "LilyPond" "1" "1999" "The LilyPond package" "The GNU Project Music Typesetter"
5 LilyPond \- the GNU Music Typesetter
8 \fBlilypond\fP [OPTION]\&.\&.\&. [MUDELA-FILE]\&.\&.\&.
12 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter\&. This program can print
13 beautiful sheet music from a music definition file\&. It can also play
14 mechanical performances to a MIDI file\&. Features include multiple
15 staffs, meters, clefs, keys, lyrics, versatile input language, cadenzas,
16 beams, slurs, triplets, named chords, transposing, formatting scores,
17 part extraction\&. It includes a nice font of musical symbols\&.
21 add \fBFILE\fP to the search path for input files\&.
23 Disable TeX output\&. If you have a \emidi definition, it will do the
25 .IP "-d,--dependencies"
26 Also output rules to be included in Makefile\&.
28 Turn debugging info on\&. GNU LilyPond reads the file \fB\&.dstreamrc\fP,
29 which lists what functions and classes may produce copious debugging
32 Disallow untrusted \f(CW\einclude\fP directives, backslashes in
33 code and named output\&.
35 Switch on any experimental features\&. Not for general public use\&.
37 Show the warranty with which GNU LilyPond comes\&. (It comes with
39 .IP "-o,--output=FILE"
40 Set the default output file to \fBFILE\fP\&.
42 Show a summary of usage\&.
44 Set init file to \fBFILE\fP (default: \fBinit\&.ly\fP)\&.
45 .IP "--include, -I=DIRECTORY"
46 Add \fBDIRECTORY\fP to the search path for input files\&.
47 .IP "--ignore-version, -V"
48 Make the incompatible mudela version warning non-fatal\&.
52 This is an overview of the features that GNU LilyPond supports\&. For
53 details on how to use them, you should consult the Mudela tutorial,
54 which is included with the package\&.
57 ASCII script input, with identifiers (for music reuse),
58 customizable notenames, customisable fontset\&.
60 MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes\&.
62 MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program\&.
64 Multiple staffs in one score\&. Each staff can have different time signatures\&.
66 Beams, slurs, ties, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text)
67 triplets, general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc\&.), lyrics,
68 transposition, dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style)\&.
70 Multiple voices within one staff; beams optionally shared
71 between voices\&. Up to four voices is handled cleanly\&.
73 Multiple scores within one input file\&. Each score is output to
76 Clef changes, meter changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars\&.
80 GNU LilyPond is copyright 1996-1999 by its authors\&. GNU LilyPond is
81 distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License\&. GNU LilyPond
82 is provided without any warranty what so ever\&.
83 GNU LilyPond may be freely distributed\&. For further information consult
84 the GNU General Public License, from the file \fBCOPYING\fP\&.
88 There is an extensive list of todoes and bugs\&. See the file
89 \fBTODO\fP distributed with the sources\&. If you have a problem you
90 should try to find out
93 If the bug has been fixed in a newer release\&.
95 If the bug has been found earlier, consult \fBTODO\fP and \fBBUGS\fP\&.
97 If you have found a bug, then we would appreciate it if you sent a
101 Send a copy of the input which causes the error\&.
103 Send a description of the platform you use\&.
105 Send a description of the LilyPond version you use
106 (with compile/configure options please)\&.
108 Send a description of the bug itself\&.
110 Send it to bug-gnu-music@gnu\&.org; you don\'t have to be subscribed
111 to this mailinglist\&.
114 .IP "\fBinit\&.ly\fP"
115 The initialisation file with symbol tables etc\&. It
116 includes files from the directory
117 \fBPREFIX/share/lilypond/ly/\fP\&. (\fBPREFIX\fP typically is \fB/usr/local\fP
120 manspagesection(environment)
123 additional directories for finding lilypond data\&. The
124 format is like the format of \fBPATH\fP\&.
128 selects the language for the warning messages of LilyPond\&.
132 Lots of them\&. See \fBTODO\fP and \fBBUGS\fP
136 LilyPond comes with various other documentation files, but most are in
137 the form of manual pages\&. They are included in the source
138 package\&. Interesting documents include
141 Goals of the GNU LilyPond project\&.
143 The GNU LilyPond FAQ list
145 A further source for information is the website, which can be found at
146 http://www\&.lilypond\&.org/\&. The website contains on-line versions
149 GNU LilyPond is updated very frequently, the latest version is always
150 available at: ftp://ftp\&.cs\&.uu\&.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond\&. This FTP
151 site is mirrored at a number of sites; consult the project web pages
152 for information about mirrors\&.
154 For programs which are part of the GNU music project, the following
155 mailing list have been setup:
157 .IP "info-gnu-music@gnu\&.org"
158 For information on the GNU Music project, to subscribe: send mail with
159 subject "subscribe" to info-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org
160 .IP "help-gnu-music@gnu\&.org"
161 For help with programs from the GNU music project\&. To subscribe: send
162 mail with subject "subscribe" to help-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org
163 .IP "bug-gnu-music@gnu\&.org"
164 If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list\&. If you want
165 to read all bugreports, you should subscribe to this list\&. To
166 subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to
167 bug-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org
168 .IP "gnu-music-discuss@gnu\&.org"
169 For discussions concerning the GNU Music project, to subscribe: send
170 mail with subject "subscribe" to
171 gnu-music-discuss-request@gnu\&.org
173 Announces of new versions will be sent to info-gnu-music and
178 GNU LilyPond has no connection with the music package Rosegarden, other
179 than the names being similar :-)
184 Han-wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs\&.uu\&.nl>
185 http://www\&.cs\&.uu\&.nl/people/hanwen
187 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu\&.org>
188 http://www\&.xs4all\&.nl/~jantien
190 Please consult the documentation file \fBAUTHORS\fP for more detailed
191 information, and small contributions\&.