1 Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font
2 Subject: LilyPond 0.2 released - The GNU Project music typesetter
4 GNU LilyPond - The GNU Project Music Typesetter
9 GNU LilyPond is the GNU Project Music typesetter: it reads a music
10 definition file and outputs formatted sheet music to a TeX file or
11 (mechanical) performances to MIDI files.
14 WHAT'S NEW SINCE VERSION 0.1?
16 * LilyPond now includes a completely new music font: the Feta font.
17 We were quite disappointed with available music fonts, so we rolled
18 our own. We did our best to copy the best symbol designs available,
19 and we think that we've succeeded in doing so. We're proud of the
20 result, and we hope you agree, so go check it out!
22 * More elegant output due to
25 * better line breaking
27 * PostScript output for variable symbols
31 * More robust, flexible, tweakable design
33 * Better MIDI importing
35 * Easier to use due to better scripts and input format enhancements
37 * MusixTeX not needed anymore
42 ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
43 customizable notenames.
45 MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.
46 MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.
48 Font size selectable (26pt, 20pt, 16pt staffsize) for each score.
49 Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff may have various different
50 meters. Multiple voices within one staff (up to four handled
51 graciously); beams optionally shared between voices. Multiple scores
52 within one input file. Each score is output to a different file.
54 Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text),
55 general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition,
56 dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style), clef changes, meter
57 changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars.
59 Integration with LaTeX through Perl scripts.
64 Sources for this project are on
66 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
67 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/ (US)
69 More detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at
71 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html