GNU LilyPond

Welcome to the home of the GNU Music Typesetter

Index to LilyPond documentation

• Dedication Lily is dedicated to our friends.
• GPL it is released under the GNU GPL.
• Lilypond Wiki A wikiwiki site dedicated to lilypond.

Installation

• README General information.
• INSTALL How install on Unix.
• WINDOWS How to install on Windows.

Support

• index What is Lilypond?
• mini-FAQ Mini FAQ - very frequently asked questions, with answers.
• FAQs Frequently Asked Questions, with answers.
• MailingLists Subscribe to the mailing lists.

Documents

• Tutorial Learn how to use LilyPond.

• CHANGES Things recently done.
• Reference-Manual The reference manual.
• lilypond The complete user manual, (in PostScript). This manual contains among others the tutorial, the reference manual.
• glossary A glossary of musical terms, including translations. (in Postscript) Read this if you're not familiar with English terms for notation.
• lilypond-internals Full documentation of internals, generated from the sources. If you want to fine-tune output, you need the information in this document.

• regression-test A large document that tests all kinds of features (in Postscript).
• lilypond textual domain in the Translation Project.
• Compiling for Windows/Cygwin.

Logo

• logo in large size
• logo in medium size
• logo in small size

Background information

• Authors documents who did what on LilyPond.
• NEWS summary of changes for 1.4
• CHANGES-0.0 Change logs from 0.0 till 0.1
• CHANGES-0.1 Change logs from 0.1 till 1.0
• CHANGES-1.0 Change logs from 1.0 till 1.1
• CHANGES-1.1 Change logs from 1.1 till 1.2
• CHANGES-1.2 Change logs from 1.2 till 1.3
• NEWS-1.2 summary of changes from 1.1 till 1.2
• ANNOUNCE-0.1 Announcement of 0.1 (includes summary of changes)
• ANNOUNCE-1.0 Announcement of 1.0 (includes summary of changes)
• ANNOUNCE-1.2 Announcement of 1.2 (includes summary of changes)
• AIMS Why LilyPond?
• interview Answers to the Brave GNU world standard questions.
• lily-wins musings on the Windows installer

Literature

• University of Colorado Engraving music bibliography. Books refered from the Big Site of Music Notation and Engraving at University of Colorado.
• References on engraving and music notation.
• Papers on music notation by computer.

If you have questions, do write to the mailing lists. But don't forget to read the Very Frequently Asked Questions and Frequently Asked Questions first.

• lilypond-devel@gnu.org This list is for discussions concerning LilyPond development.

  Searchable archives are available from http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-devel@gnu.org.

• info-lilypond@gnu.org is a low-volume list for information on the GNU Music project. This list is moderated; ask David R. Linn or Han-Wen to send announcements for this list.

  Searchable archives are available from http://www.mail-archive.com/info-lilypond@gnu.org.

• lilypond-user@gnu.org For everyday use of LilyPond, in particular the stable (1.4) series.

  Searchable archives are available from http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org.

• bug-lilypond@gnu.org If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list.

  Please include in your bugreport the version of LilyPond that you experience the problem with, a description of your system and sample input to reproduce the problem. Do not send output files over the list, they tend to be very big and don't help with describing the problem.

  Searchable archives are available from http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-lilypond@gnu.org.

These pages were entirely created from a development snapshot of the LilyPond package. The version of this webpage is printed at the bottom.

Please send GNU LilyPond questions and comments to lilypond-user@gnu.org.

Please send comments on these web pages to lilypond@packages.debian.org

Copyright (c) 1997--2001 Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.

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