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10 @settitle LilyPond -- Music notation for everyone
11 @documentencoding UTF-8
21 @c don't remove this comment.
23 @omfcreator Graham Percival and Patrick McCarty
24 @omfdescription General info about the LilyPond music engraving system
25 @omftype program usage
26 @omfcategory Applications|Publishing
30 @c `Web' was imported 2009-08-05 with git commit b938d71...
32 Copyright @copyright{} 2009 by the authors.
35 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
36 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
37 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
38 with no Invariant Sections.
39 A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
40 Free Documentation License''.
48 @top LilyPond... music notation for everyone
52 @c hack for texi2html, bleh -gp
59 @subtitle The music typesetter
60 @titlefont{General Information}
61 @author The LilyPond development team
63 @vskip 0pt plus 1filll
68 For LilyPond version @version{}
71 @c end hack for texi2html
74 @c ************************ WEBSITE START ***************
80 ... music notation for everyone
83 @c @imageId{cmws,web-clef-g-eight-alpha.png,Catchy Musical Web Snippet}
84 @imageId{lilylogo,double-lily-modified3,png,LilyPond logo}
85 @c @im ageId{cmws,web-snippet-alpha.png,Catchy Musical Web Snippet}
88 @subheading What is LilyPond?
90 LilyPond is an open-source music engraving program, devoted to
91 producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. This free
92 software brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to
95 @divClass{align-right}
96 Read more in our @ref{Introduction}!
107 @c TODO: generate this automatically, including RSS feed.
108 @include web/news-front.itexi
110 @divClass{float-right}
121 @divId{latestVersion}
122 @subheading Quick links
124 @c TODO: javascript to detect OS and suggest download?
126 @subsubheading Stable
128 @ref{Download, Download @versionStable}
130 @ref{Manuals, Manuals @versionStable}
132 @subsubheading Unstable
134 @ref{Development, Download @versionDevel}
136 @ref{Development, Manuals @versionDevel}
146 * Introduction:: Start here to creating sheet music.
147 * Download:: Get LilyPond.
148 * Manuals:: Read The Fine Manuals (RTFM).
149 * Community:: Contact other users.
158 @c ****************** GENERAL STUFF FOR INFO ************
160 Distributions will want to install lilypond.info in postinstall, doing:
162 install-info --info-dir=/usr/share/info out[-www]/lilypond-web.info
164 * Prepend GNU for dir, must be unique.
166 * Do not list the `lilypond' node at toplevel, so that `info lilypond'
169 * List all commands in direntry.
171 @c * lilypond: (lilypond-application)Running LilyPond. Invoking the
175 @c Info files are no longer installed in a subdirectory, images are
176 @c expected to be found in lilypond/ subdirectory.
177 @dircategory GNU LilyPond --- the music typesetter
179 * LilyPond Learning Manual: (lilypond-learning). Start here.
180 * Music Glossary: (music-glossary). For non-English users.
181 * LilyPond: (lilypond-notation). LilyPond Notation Reference.
182 * LilyPond Snippets: (lilypond-snippets). Short tricks, tips, and examples.
183 * LilyPond Internals Reference: (lilypond-internals). Definitions for tweaking.
184 * LilyPond Application Usage: (lilypond-application). Installing and running applications.
185 * LilyPond Website: (lilypond-general). Preview of new website.
186 * abc2ly: (lilypond-application)Invoking abc2ly. Importing ABC.
187 * convert-ly: (lilypond-application)Updating files with convert-ly. Older LilyPond versions.
188 * etf2ly: (lilypond-application)Invoking etf2ly. Importing Finale.
189 * lilypond-book: (lilypond-application)LilyPond-book. Integrating text and music.
190 * midi2ly: (lilypond-application)Invoking midi2ly. Importing MIDI.
191 * musicxml2ly: (lilypond-application)Invoking musicxml2ly. Importing MusicXML.
195 @c FIXME: this still doesn't solve the broken links in pdf and big
196 @c html; we'll need a bunch of @iftext and stuff in here. -gp
197 @c ****************** SPECIAL MACROS FOR WEB MANUAL ************
198 @macro docLinks{name,base,refLink,split,big,bigsize,pdf,pdfsize}
203 @c normal case, special online case
208 @c we assume that the online web version will be split html
211 read this manual in the same format as this one.
215 @subheading All formats
217 @divClass{keep-bullets}
221 @item @uref{../\base\/index.html, \name\ (split HTML)}:
226 the manual is split between many HTML pages.
227 @*@ @ @emph{(small download for each page)}
230 @item @uref{../\base\-big-page.html, \name\ (big HTML)}:
235 read this manual as one huge HTML page.
236 @*@ @ @emph{(large single download, \bigsize\)}
239 @item @uref{../\base\.pdf, \base\.pdf}:
244 download as a PDF file.
245 @*@ @ @emph{(large single download, \pdfsize\)}
254 @c don't add any extra spaces in this macro -gp
255 @macro ifWebLinks{webLink,normalLink}
265 @include web/introduction.itexi
266 @include web/download.itexi
267 @include web/manuals.itexi
268 @include web/community.itexi