Toplevel README
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1 Toplevel README
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LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using
a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
1.1 Versioning
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LilyPond uses a versioning scheme that easily identifies stable and
development releases. In a version "x.y.z", an even second number ’y’
denotes a stable version. For development versions ’y’ is odd.
1.2 Downloading
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The primary download site for sourcecode is
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1.3 Compilation
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For compiling and running LilyPond see the installation instructions.
These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond, as
‘lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt’. They are also available on the web at
.
1.4 Documentation
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The documentation is available online at .
You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under
‘Building documentation’ in the installation instructions.
1.5 Comments
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Send your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. to the mailing
list, not to us personally.
We have the following mailing lists:
• info-lilypond@gnu.org
(http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond) is a
low-volume list for information on LilyPond project. This list is
moderated; ask David R. Linn or Han-Wen
to send announcements for this list.
• lilypond-devel@gnu.org
(http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel) for
discussions about developing LilyPond, in particular the unstable
series.
• lilypond-user@gnu.org
(http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user) for
discussions about using LilyPond, in particular the stable series.
• bug-lilypond@gnu.org
(http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond) for sending
bugreports.
• lilypond-auto@gnu.org
(http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-auto) for
notifications from the issue tracking systems of LilyPond.
You can search the lists from our searching facilities
(http://lilypond.org/search).
1.6 Bugs
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Send bug reports to . For help and questions use
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