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GNU LilyPond -- The music typesetter

This is the user manual for GNU LilyPond 1.8.0.

A further source of information is the website, which can be found at http://www.lilypond.org/. The website contains on-line copies of this and other documentation.

We would like to dedicate this program to all the friends that we met through music.

Han-Wen and Jan

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This page is for LilyPond-2.0.1 (stable-branch).

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