2 This is the toplevel README to LilyPond
4 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. It transforms
5 a musical description file into beautiful sheet music.
9 LilyPond uses a versioning scheme similar to the Linux ker-
10 nel. In a version "x.y.z", an even second number 'y'
11 denotes a stable version. For development versions 'y' is
12 odd. For using straightforward score production, please use
13 the latest stable version. Development versions may not
14 produce good or nice scores.
18 For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some
19 additional packages. Please refer to the installation
22 NOTE: If you downloaded a binary (.rpm or a W95/NT .zip
23 file), then you don't have to compile LilyPond.
27 For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL
28 instructions are in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.txt
30 The process is fairly straightforward, but chances are that
31 you have to specify directories for to configure: this is
32 done with the options --enable-tex-dir and --enable-mf-dir
36 The real documentation is the directory Documentation/
38 To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run config-
39 ure first, and then do this:
43 You can also simply read the .yo sources. They are ASCII
44 text. The complete documentation is accessible in formatted
45 form at the website http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lily-
50 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. We do
51 appreciate criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc.
53 Please send your e-mail to one of the MAILING LISTS
55 and not to us personally. See Documentation/links.yo for
60 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32
61 distribution (LilyPond-*.zip), then it is advisable to also
62 download the source package, since it might contain more
63 documentation ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/
65 If you decide to build LilyPond from source, please read the
66 INSTALL.txt document first, especially the Windows NT/95
71 * Please read the file BUGS for some ugly bugs.
73 * If you have installed a previous version, be sure to
74 remove old font files, eg
76 rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
78 a script to do this for you is in buildscripts/clean-
81 8: CDROM DISTRIBUTIONS
83 If you have received LilyPond on a cdrom, chances are that
84 development has moved a some patchlevels up. Please check
85 the latest version of LilyPond before reporting bugs.