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Reference Manual
This document describes GNU LilyPond and its input format. The last revision of this document was made for LilyPond 1.4.1. It supposes a passing familiarity with how LilyPond input works. New users are encouraged to study the tutorial first.
The reference manual is ordered according to different tasks. More details on the property setting mechanisms and context handling is provided in Tuning output and Interpretation context. The syntactical details are described at the end of the manual.
- Overview:
- Note entry:
- Staff notation:
- Polyphony:
- Beaming:
- Expressive marks:
- Ornaments:
- Repeats:
- Rhythmic music:
- Piano music:
- Lyrics:
- Chords:
- Writing parts:
- Custodes:
- Tuning output:
- Page layout:
- Output formats:
- Sound:
- Music entry:
- Skipping corrected music:
- Interpretation context:
- Syntactic details:
- Lexical details:
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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