7 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using
8 a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
13 LilyPond uses a versioning scheme that easily identifies stable and
14 development releases. In a version "x.y.z", an even second number ’y’
15 denotes a stable version. For development versions ’y’ is odd.
20 The primary download site for sourcecode is
21 <http://lilypond.org/downloads/>.
26 For compiling and running LilyPond see the installation instructions.
27 These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond, as
28 ‘lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt’. They are also available on the web at
29 <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.html>.
34 The documentation is available online at <http://lilypond.org/doc/>.
36 You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under
37 ‘Building documentation’ in the installation instructions.
42 Send your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. to the mailing
43 list, not to us personally.
45 We have the following mailing lists:
47 • info-lilypond@gnu.org
48 (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond) is a
49 low-volume list for information on LilyPond project. This list is
50 moderated; ask David R. Linn <drl@gnu.org> or Han-Wen
51 <hanwen@xs4all.nl> to send announcements for this list.
53 • lilypond-devel@gnu.org
54 (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel) for
55 discussions about developing LilyPond, in particular the unstable
58 • lilypond-user@gnu.org
59 (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user) for
60 discussions about using LilyPond, in particular the stable series.
62 • bug-lilypond@gnu.org
63 (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond) for sending
66 • lilypond-auto@gnu.org
67 (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-auto) for
68 notifications from the issue tracking systems of LilyPond.
70 You can search the lists from our searching facilities
71 (http://lilypond.org/search).
76 Send bug reports to <bug-lilypond@gnu.org>. For help and questions use
77 <lilypond-user@gnu.org>.