This page is dedicated to the distribution of precompiled and preformatted LilyPond binaries for Windows NT 4.0 . This package is covered under the GNU General Public License and all of the source is available on the official LilyPond Homepage. A full set of documentation in various formats is also available.
LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. It transforms a musical description file into beautiful sheet music.
The FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS file system problems have been corrected. I have tested various installations that are known to be operational. The following configurations that have been tested.
The installer was created with CreateInstall. This is a shareware application that has capabilities close to the high dollar installers InstallShield, Install Vise, and WiseInstaller. CreateInstall does cost $38 to register which is probably going to be frowned upon, but I was unable to find a freeware install builder that was suitable. The self extracting distribution currently:
The lilyshell shortcut initializes the environment so you can generate music from a MSDOS prompt with commands like:
If you are upgrading from a previous version of lilypond you will most
likely need to flush your font cache. I generally just toss
D:\localtexmf\fonts\tfm\public\ehrhardt and
D:\localtexmf\fonts\pk\ljfour\public\ehrhardt in the Recyle
Bin. Your local font directory may be different, please refer to your
local installation of TeX
.
I have also converted the Manual Pages for the above tools to HTML for easy browsing. This release has been tested on Windows NT 4.0sp3 and Windows 95 and found to be operational. If you have any troubles and or comments please do not hesitate to drop me a line Jeffrey B. Reed.
This is what the version 1.1.57 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)
LilyPond uses the TeX
package as its rendering engine. TeX
represents the state-of-the-art in computer typesetting. It is used to
generate documentation, article, and book quality output. It is an
assume tool to have in your toolbox.
LilyPond uses a Python
script named ly2dvi
to render a
professional quality music score. Python
is an interpreted,
interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often
compared to Tcl
, Perl
, Scheme
or Java
.
Gsview is used to display and print the music scores created by LilyPond.
MiKTeX
Python
gsview
\Temp
.
MiKTeX
. This will be MiKTeX-dir\tex\latex
cmbx14.mf
. Add the following lines:
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