-Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu
-Subject: LilyPond 0.1 released - The GNU Project music typesetter
-
- BORN
-
- August 1, 1997
-
- Lily
-
- (GNU LilyPond 0.1)
-
- daughter to Jan 'Janneke' Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen 'Wendy' Nienhuys
-
-Lily is a healthy, bouncing baby weighing 345 kilobytes
-
-Visiting hours: 24 hours a day at
-
- ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz (Europe)
- ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz (US)
-
-You can see some babyfood, diapers and pictures at
-
- http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
-
-You can send your congratulations to Janneke (jan@digicash.com) and
-Wendy (hanwen@stack.nl)
-
+Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font
+Subject: LilyPond 0.2 released - The GNU Project music typesetter
GNU LilyPond - The GNU Project Music Typesetter
-
``WHAT IS GNU LilyPond?''
-Well Mike, GNU LilyPond is a program which converts music definition
-files into visual or auditive output: it can typeset formatted sheet
-music to a TeX file and (mechanical) performances to MIDI files.
-
-
-We have been working very hard on this system for the past year, and
-we finally think that it is ready to be used and hacked at by a larger
-public than us.
+GNU LilyPond is the GNU Project Music typesetter: it reads a music
+definition file and outputs formatted sheet music to a TeX file or
+(mechanical) performances to MIDI files.
WHY ?
of public domain music.
-BUT ..
-
-We haven't yet reached that goal:
-
-* The quality of the output isn't good enough yet due to some
-unsophisticated algorithms
-
-* Some features haven't been implemented, due to lack of time; most of
-them can be done quite simply
+WHAT'S NEW
-This is why we don't consider this software stable yet. It generally
-does what it is supposed to, but we reserve the right to make
-(incompatible) changes to the input format. We consider it
-of BETA quality.
+* LilyPond now includes a completely rewritten font: the Feta font.
+We did our best to copy the best symbol designs available and We're
+proud of the result. We hope you agree, so go check it out!
+* More elegant output due to
-WE WANT YOU!
+ * better spacing
+ * better breaking
+ * better font design
+ * PostScript output for variable symbols.
-You can become a user, but we'd really appreciate it if you would start
-hacking at Lily, and help us advance our project more quickly.
+* Lots of bugfixes
+* More robust, flexible, tweakable design
-``YES, IT IS FANTASTIC! WHAT DO I NEED?''
+* Better MIDI importing
-For compilation you need
+* Easier to use due to better scripts and input format enhancements.
- Unix. (windows32 is known to work, too)
- GNU C++ v2.7 or better, with libg++ installed.
- GNU make.
- Flex (2.5.1 or better).
- Bison. (1.25 or better)
+* MusixTeX not needed anymore
-For running you need
- TeX
- MusiXTeX fonts
-
-The MusiXTeX fonts are part of the MusiXTeX package version T.73,
-available at any CTAN mirror, or http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
-
-
-``WHAT CAN LILYPOND DO?''
+WHAT CAN LILYPOND DO?
ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
customizable notenames.
Integration with LaTeX through Perl scripts.
-``WHERE CAN I FIND MORE INFO?''
+MORE INFO
Sources for this project are on
ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
- ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/ (US)
+ ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/ (US)
More detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at
http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
-
-THANK YOU,
-
-Thanks go out to Mats Bengtsson, Werner Lemberg and Richard Stallman
-for comments and contributions.
-
-
-**** NOTE
-
-LilyPond might have a minor bug if you use glibc-2; we will look into it
-If you use glibc-2, please try 0.1.0 to see if it works and, download 0.1.1
-when it's available.
-
-LilyPond might exhibit a g++ bug on Solaris 1.5 (The stack frame gets corrupted
-by a constructor) if you compile with -O2. We don't know workarounds.
-
- --- * ---
-
- We would like to dedicate this program to all the friends that we
- met through music.
-
-
- Those deserving special mention (in no particular order):
-Esther, Marijke, Heike, Inge, Judith, Hannah, Auke, Ilse, Evelyn,
-Maartje, Suzanne, Ilse (gee, again?) and last (but certainly not least)
-Janneke!
-
- HWN
-
- That's a nice thought, Wendy. I've got a few too, to spread
-the credits a bit (Again, no particular order) Michelle, Illushka,
-Ruth, Eva, Fro/ydis, Monique, Noor, Sascha, Monique, Ilse, Monique,
-Eva, Roos, Judith, Tim and, of course, Wendy!
-
- JCN
-
-
-Of course, our other friends in the `Eindhovens Jongeren Ensemble'
-(http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/eje.html) cannot go unmentioned either.
-
-
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