GNU LilyPond

Documentation

Index to LilyPond documentation

• Lily is dedicated to our friends.
• It is released under the GNU GPL.

Installation

• The README contains general information.
• How to install on Unix
• How to install on Windows. (Or just Install Lily Now).

Support

• Front Page: What is LilyPond?
• Subscribe to the mailing lists

Documents

• Learn how to use LilyPond.
• Templates, for different music styles. Add notes, and done!

• The complete user manual, (also in PostScript and PDF).
• The user manual in one big page, for easy searching, or look it up in the index.
• A glossary of musical terms, including translations. (also in PostScript and PDF). Read this if you're not familiar with English terms for notation.
• Documentation of internals, generated from the source code. If you want to fine-tune output, you need the information in this document.
• Templates, for different music styles. Add notes, and done!
• All of the tips-and-tricks input snippets, with the corresponding output shown. Also available in PostScript and PDF formats.

• The ChangeLog lists things recently done.
• The Regression Tests are lot of snippets that test all basic features. Also available in PostScript and PDF formats.
• Lilypond Textual Domain in the Translation Project.
• Compiling for Windows/Cygwin.

Literature

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

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

  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 discussing every-day use of LilyPond, in particular the stable releases.

  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.

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-1.4 Change logs from 1.4 up to 1.5
• CHANGES-1.3 Change logs from 1.3 up to 1.4
• CHANGES-1.2 Change logs from 1.2 up to 1.3
• CHANGES-1.1 Change logs from 1.1 up to 1.2
• CHANGES-1.0 Change logs from 1.0 up to 1.1
• CHANGES-0.1 Change logs from 0.1 up to 1.0
• CHANGES-0.0 Change logs from 0.0 up to 0.1
• NEWS-1.4 summary of changes from 1.2 till 1.4
• NEWS-1.2 summary of changes from 1.0 till 1.2
• ANNOUNCE-1.2 Announcement of 1.2 (includes summary of changes)
• ANNOUNCE-1.0 Announcement of 1.0 (includes summary of changes)
• ANNOUNCE-0.1 Announcement of 0.1 (includes summary of changes)
• AIMS Why LilyPond?
• interview Answers to the Brave GNU world standard questions.
• lily-wins musings on the Windows installer

These pages were entirely created from a stable version 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.

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Copyright (c) 1997--2002 Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.

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