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GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
WHAT IS LilyPond?
LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter.
LilyPond produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description
file as input.
BROWSE
Documentation and examples can be found on
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/
DOWNLOAD
Sources for this project are on
ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/ (Europe)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/
Prepackaged i386 and PPC packages for both Debian and RedHat GNU are
also available.
WHAT'S NEW?
* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
memory footprint and more flexible code.
* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
(default output still to plain TeX).
* Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
* Font: now available as scalable PostScript. New glyphs: time
signature, more note heads.
* Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
repeats, chordnames, automatic Lyrics durations.
* Grace notes, volta brackets, multiple styles for note heads and
time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders, cross staff
beaming and slurring.
* --safe option for the paranoid.
* More elegant spacing. Text is spaced exactly.
* Lots of bugfixes.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
