8 Do you pine for the nice days of Linux 0.95, when men were men and
9 wrote their own applications? Are you without a nice project and just
10 dying to cut your teeth into a bleeding edge application you can
11 modify for your needs? Do you find it frustrating that everything
12 works in LaTeX? No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working?
13 Then this post might be just for you!
15 I have been working very hard on a music typesetting system (called
16 GNU LilyPond) the past half year, and I finally think it is ready to be
17 used and hacked at by a larger public than me and my co-developer.
19 Sources for this project are on:
21 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/
23 detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at:
25 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
27 (it is somewhat lousy, but I have more important things to do).
30 [DETAILED DESCRIPTION]
34 Technically it is a preprocessor which generates TeX
35 (or LaTeX) output which contains information to typeset a musical
36 score. Practically it is a typesetter, which only uses TeX as an
37 output medium. (this is handy because there exist music fonts for TeX)
39 As a bonus, you can also output a MIDI file of what you typed.
41 The input is a script file which is read. The script file is a "music
42 definition", ie, you type the melody as if it is read out loud
46 for compilation you need
48 Unix. (Win32 is known to work, too)
49 GNU C++ v2.7 or better, with libg++ installed.
51 Flex (2.5.1 or better).
52 Bison. (1.25 or better)
60 ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
61 customizable notenames
63 MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.
64 MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.
66 Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have a different meters.
67 Multiple voices within one staff; beams optionally shared between
68 voices. Multiple scores within one input file. Each score is output
71 Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text),
72 general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition
73 dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style) clef changes, meter
74 changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars
77 [Kudos to the FSF, all linux hackers, and --of course-- especially
78 GrandMaster Linus T, for the OS and The Announce :-]
80 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@stack.nl>
81 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jan@digicash.com>