1 This is the toplevel README to LilyPond -*-Text-*-
4 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. The program generates
5 visual or auditive output from a music definition file: it can typeset
6 formatted sheet music to a TeX file and play (mechanical) performances
7 to a MIDI file. Features include multiple staffs, meters, clefs,
8 keys, lyrics, versatile input-language, cadenzas, beams, slurs,
14 if you have downloaded a
18 version, then this is version is *not* meant for producing nice output
19 (but to keep your patchsets up to date). It might not even compile.
24 For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some additional
25 packages. The most unusual one of this are the metafont sources to
26 MusixTeX-fonts. Please refer to the installation instructions on how
27 to obtain and install them.
32 For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL instructions are
33 in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.text
38 The real documentation is the directory Documentation/
40 To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run configure first,
45 You can also simply read the .pod sources. They are ASCII text.
46 .pod is the documentation format of perl (see perlpod(1))
51 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. I do appreciate
52 criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. Please send e-mail to
53 the mailing lists. See Documentation/links.pod for more info
58 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution
59 (lilypond-*.zip ), then it is advisable to also download the source
60 package, since it might contain more documentation
62 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
63 ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/lilypond/ (US)
65 The website also contains the complete documentation
67 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
72 * Please read the file BUGS for some ugly bugs. This especially applies
73 Linux-Intel unix users.
75 * If you have installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
78 rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`