1 This is the toplevel README to LilyPond -*-Text-*-
4 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. The program generates
5 visual or auditive output from a music definition file: it can typeset
6 formatted sheet music to a TeX file and play (mechanical) performances
7 to a MIDI file. Features include multiple staffs, meters, clefs,
8 keys, lyrics, versatile input-language, cadenzas, beams, slurs,
14 if you have downloaded a
18 version, then this is version is *not* meant for producing nice output
19 (but to keep your patchsets up to date). It might not even compile.
24 For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some additional
25 packages. Please refer to the installation instructions.
30 For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL instructions are
31 in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.text
36 The real documentation is the directory Documentation/
38 To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run configure first,
43 You can also simply read the .pod sources. They are ASCII text.
44 .pod is the documentation format of perl (see perlpod(1))
49 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. I do appreciate
50 criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. Please send e-mail to
51 the mailing lists. See Documentation/links.pod for more info
56 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution
57 (lilypond-*.zip), then it is advisable to also download the source
58 package, since it might contain more documentation
60 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
61 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/lilypond/ (US)
63 The website also contains the complete documentation
65 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
67 If you decide to build LilyPond from source, please read the INSTALL
68 document first, especially the Windows NT/95 section.
73 * Please read the file BUGS for some ugly bugs. This especially applies
74 Linux-Intel unix users.
76 * If you have installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
79 rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
81 a script to do this for you is in bin/cleanfonts.sh