1 This is the toplevel README to LilyPond -*-Text-*-
4 GNU LilyPond which converts music definition files into visual or
5 audio output: it can typeset formatted sheet music in TeX and
6 and (mechanical) perfomances to MIDI files.
11 if you have downloaded a
15 version, then this is version is *not* meant for producing nice output
16 (but to keep your patchsets up to date). It might not even compile.
21 For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some additional
22 packages. The most unusual one of this are the metafont sources to
23 MusixTeX-fonts. Please refer to the installation instructions on how
24 to obtain and install them.
29 For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL instructions are
30 in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.text
35 The real documentation is the directory Documentation/
37 To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run configure first,
42 You can also simply read the .pod sources. They are ASCII text.
43 .pod is the documentation format of perl (see perlpod(1))
48 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. I do appreciate
49 criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. Please send e-mail to
50 the mailing lists. See Documentation/links.pod for more info
55 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution
56 (lilypond-*.zip ), then it is advisable to also download the source
57 package, since it might contain more documentation
59 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
60 ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/lilypond/ (US)
62 The website also contains the complete documentation
64 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
69 Please read the file BUGS for some ugly bugs. This especially applies
70 Linux-Intel unix users.