
: LilyPond: The Music Typesetter

     LilyPond is a compiler that transforms an ASCII defini-
tion of music into beautifully engraved sheet music.  A
small example is included here: Features include

o    A concise yet easy-to-read input language.

o    Beautiful output, comes with its own font.

o    Easy interfacing with (La)TeX

o    Support for Lyrics and Chords

o    MIDI output

o    Multiple voices on a staff, multiple staffs, polymetric
     music, nested tuplets, cross staff beaming and slur-
     ring.  Development releases can be had at
     ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/.  For
     more information, consult the LilyPond webpage,
     http://www.lilypond.org.
