LilyPond -- The GNU Project Music Typesetter

LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. It transforms a musical description file into beautiful sheet music. (italiano)(nederlands)
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Hmm, this is what it said yesterday too. I just want to know What's new today and then Download LilyPond.

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Free Software

Of course LilyPond, being part of the GNU project, is free software. For more information, see the Free Software Foundation.

Preview

  • Examples: simple pieces, tests and bugs. MIDI, PNG (gif replacement), PostScript, and Source.
  • Music in Mutopia: LilyPond handling real music. MIDI, view PNG (gif replacement), PostScript, and Source.

    • Documentation

  • Tutorial
  • FAQ
  • Mailing Lists
  • All of the LilyPond documentation
  • The DOC++ documentation of the C++ sources.
  • The installation instructions

    • Sites

  • http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/ Han-Wen's site
  • http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/lilypond/ Jan's site
  • http://home.austin.rr.com/jbr/jeff/lilypond/ Jeff's Windows NT Distribution site

    • Mirrors

    http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/
    Eric Praetzel was kind enough to provide a mirror of both the website and the ftp site.

    ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/
    A mirror of the FTP site. Updated at 0:00 MET daily.

    NEWS

    This is what the latest version brings: 
    

pl 56.jcn3
	- slur de-hairification
	  * slurs always attached to noteheads, by default
	  * corrections for steep and high slurs
	  * snap to stem end when close
	- bow/tie/slur dy/dx fix

pl 56.hwn1
	- some spacing tweaks.
 	- bf: two repeats + alts after each other.
pl 56.jcn2
	- tie: bfs + even simpler

pl 56.jcn1
	- bf: re-added \textflat,sharp to fix chords...
	- bf: chord-modifier and mandatory dot: c-maj5 
	- tutorial chord fixes
	- tie fixes and boldifying:
	  * removed sloping (dy!=0) code
	  * use actual note-widths
	  * y[left] == y[right]
	  * follow OSU rules, I hope (from comments in text -- must check)
	  * undetermined direction -> down; inverse of stem
	- bf: beam: undetermined direction -> up; like stem
	- slur-symmetry fixes
	- fix for \rhythm and seq_iter childs (still crude, but more effective)

    Go get it at

  • ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/
  • ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/RPMS/ RedHat binary
  • ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/tex Debian binary
  • http://home.austin.rr.com/jbr/jeff/lilypond/ Windows NT binary

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