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This is the toplevel README to LilyPond

LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.

Versioning

LilyPond uses a versioning scheme similar to the Linux kernel. In a version "x.y.z", an even second number 'y' denotes a stable version. For development versions 'y' is odd. So, in theory, version 1.2 is stable, which means that there are no glaring errors in it. In practice 1.2.x is also unmaintained.

1.3.x is in healthy development: lots of problems turn up, but they're fixed quickly. Therefore we recommend you try 1.2.x, if you have any problem with it, upgrade to the latest 1.3.x release.

Requirements

For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some additional packages. Please refer to the installation instructions.

NOTE: If you downloaded a binary (.rpm or a W95/NT .zip file), you don't have to compile LilyPond.

Installation

For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL instructions are in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.txt

Documentation

The real documentation is the directory Documentation/

If you want to read the documentation online, these are options:

  • use HTML. Refer to INSTALL.txt for information on how to make the HTML documentation.
  • use HTML. Point your browser to http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html.
  • use .dvi, for the tutorial and reference manual. Do
      make -C Documentation/user/ dvi
    

    You need a working LilyPond binary to create the DVI and HTML sources.

  • use ASCII. Do using
    	make doc
    

Comments

LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. We do appreciate criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc., but please,

	   Please send your e-mail to one of the MAILING LISTS

and not to us personally. We have the following mailing lists:

Windows 32

If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution (LilyPond-*.zip), it is advisable to also download the source package, since it might contain more documentation ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/

If you decide to build LilyPond from source, please read the INSTALL.txt document first, especially the Windows NT/95 section.

Caveats

If you have installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font files, eg.,

rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`

a script to do this for you is in buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh

Bugs

Send bug reports to bug-gnu-music@gnu.org. For help and questions use help-gnu-music@gnu.org and gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org. Please consult the FAQ and installation instructions before mailing your problems.

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Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.

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