LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
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.
The primary download site for sourcecode is http://lilypond.org/download/.
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.
For compiling and running LilyPond see 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/doc/v2.1/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.
The documentation is available online at http://www.lilypond.org/doc/.
You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under `Building documentation' in the installation instructions.
Send your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. 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.
If you have installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
files, e.g.,
a script to do this is left after compiling in
buildscripts/out/clean-fonts.
Send bug reports to bug-lilypond@gnu.org. For help and
questions use lilypond-user@gnu.org.
1.6 Caveats
rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
1.7 Bugs
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