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2 @setfilename README.info
3 @settitle This is the toplevel README to LilyPond
7 @chapter This is the toplevel README to LilyPond
10 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
11 using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of
16 LilyPond uses a versioning scheme similar to the Linux kernel. In a
17 version "x.y.z", an even second number 'y' denotes a stable version.
18 For development versions 'y' is odd.
20 Version 1.4 is the latest stable release.
25 For compiling and running LilyPond please refer to the installation
26 instructions. These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond,
27 as @file{lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt}.
30 NOTE: If you downloaded a binary (.rpm or a W95/NT .zip file),
31 you don't have to compile LilyPond.
34 @section Documentation
36 The documentation is available online at
37 @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/}. You can also build it locally. This
38 does require a working LilyPond binary. The following formats are
42 @item HTML. Refer to INSTALL.txt for information
43 on how to make the HTML documentation.
45 @item @file{.dvi}, for the tutorial and reference manual. Do
48 make -C Documentation/user/ dvi
51 The printable documentation is left in @file{Documentation/user/out/}.
53 @item paper. Create the .dvi documentation, and print it with dvips.
60 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished, so please send your
61 criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc., to the mailing list,
62 @emph{not} to us personally.
64 We have the following mailing lists:
67 @item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond,info-lilypond@@gnu.org}
68 is a low-volume list for information on the GNU Music project.
69 This list is moderated; ask
70 @email{drl@@gnu.org, David R. Linn} or
71 @email{hanwen@@cs.uu.nl, Han-Wen} to send announcements for this
74 @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel,lilypond-devel@@gnu.org}
75 For discussions about developing lilypond, in particular the unstable series.
77 @item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user,lilypond-user@@gnu.org}
78 For discussions about using lilypond, in particular the stable series.
80 @item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond,bug-lilypond@@gnu.org}
81 If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list.
87 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution
88 (@file{LilyPond-*.zip}), it is advisable to also download the
89 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/,source package}, since it
90 might contain more documentation
94 If you have installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
97 rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
100 a script to do this for you is in @file{buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh}
104 Send bug reports to @email{bug-lilypond@@gnu.org}. For help and
105 questions use @email{lilypond-user@@gnu.org}. Please consult the FAQ
106 and installation instructions before mailing your problems.