Toplevel README
Toplevel README
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
using a 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.
Version 1.6 is the latest stable release.
Downloading
The primary download site for sourcecode is
ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/.
If you have a slow connection, then you are advised to use
xdelta for patching
source archives; Xdelta (.xd ) files are supplied on the FTP site.
Compilation
For compiling and running LilyPond please refer to the installation
instructions. These instructions can be found when you unpack
lilypond, as lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt . They are also
available on the web at
http://lilypond.org/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/INSTALL.html.
NOTE: If you downloaded a binary (.rpm or use the Cygwin
setup.exe program, then you don't have to compile LilyPond.
Documentation
The documentation is available online at
http://www.lilypond.org/Documentation/out-www/index.html.
You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under `Building
documentation in the installation instructions.
Comments
LilyPond is a long way from finished so we appreciate your criticism,
comments, bugreports, patches, etc. Please send them to the mailing
list, not to us personally.
We have the following mailing lists:
You can search the lists from the following page:
searching facilities.
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 left
buildscripts/out/clean-fonts
Bugs
Send bug reports to bug-lilypond@gnu.org. For help and
questions use lilypond-user@gnu.org. Please consult the
documentation before mailing your problems.
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