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1. pA zm fs ggee 2 Do eo eo Ur Public Domain Introduction Complex Notation This example from Goyescas by Enrique Granados shows some of the more advanced features of typesetting including kneed beams cross staff stems and voice follow lines SITTER N A cresc molto x bg be E a se Fi Introduction 10 Early Music LilyPond also supports various types of ancient notation such as this passage of Gregorian chant le eg ELE NE aa e Ne i Sal ve Re g na ma ter mi se ri c r di ae Ad tecla m mus x su les fi li i n j 13 w Pa caga He vae Ad te su spi r mus ge m n tes et flen tes inhac la cri m rum val le n Ba t a _ Mu v E at wa i E ia er go Ad vo c ta no stra il lostu os mi se ri c r des cu los adnoscon v r te on i ii 3 hs Li EtJe sum be ne d c tumfruc tum ven tris tu i no bis pos
2. July 23 2004 LilyPond 2 3 8 fixes a few minor bugs in the new slur code and has rewritten support for ledger lines Now in tight situations ledger lines will be shortened so they stay separate This also required a cleanup of the Ambitus implementation Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog July 19 2004 LilyPond 2 3 7 was released and has new exciting features The slur formatting has been rewrit ten The new slur code works similar to the Beam formatter scores are assigned for all esthetic components of a slur A large number of combinations for begin and end points is then tried out Slurs will now also take into account collisions with staff lines scripts like staccato and accent and accidentals In the LilyPond emacs mode the will now display the current beat within the measure Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog July 15 2004 LilyPond 2 2 5 was released It has a few bug fixes from 2 3 x Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog July 11 2004 An introductory article on LilyPond appeared on Linux Journal July 5 2004 LilyPond 2 3 6 was released This release has more updates for the Fret diagram code thanks Carl fixes a bunch of bugs including a serious one that trashed a lot of beam formatting and was also present in the 2 2 series Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog July 5
3. April 25 2005 2 5 21 released 2 5 21 has more bugfixes It also has support for grid lines bar like vertical line which are aligned with the notes The auto beam engraver was rewritten so it also works with irregular time signatures like 5 8 Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 April 18 2005 LilyPond 2 5 20 has lots of bugfixes in particular MIDI files of multi movement pieces don t overwrite each other Version 2 5 20 also supports putting arrows on lines such as glissandi More details are in the the Changes page 68 file or go straight to Old downloads page 55 April 15 2005 LilyPond 2 5 19 was released The command epsfile allows inclusion of EPS graphics into markup texts and the music function musicDisplay will display a music expression as indented Scheme code Take a look at the Changes page 68 file and Old downloads page 55 April 6 2005 2 5 18 is a bugfix release It has many small cleanups in the web based documentation and many small cleanups all over the place Old downloads page 55 March 31 2005 2 5 17 is out This release features many small bugfixes In addition it has support for string number notation for guitar This feature was sponsored by Gunther Strube Old downloads page 55 Community 151 March 20 2005 LilyPond 2 5 16 is out This release fixes a few minor but irritating errors A Fedora Core 3 binary is also available Old downloads page 5
4. LilyPond 2 9 28 available November 3 2006 This release has many more bugfixes Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 27 available October 28 2006 This release has a new FretBoards context and some further bugfixes Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Music streams thesis available October 21 2006 The last months Erik Sandberg has been overhauling the internals of Lily This change intro duces a new intermediate format Music Streams which will make it easier get music data out of LilyPond A copy of the thesis is now available from lilypond org Publications page 106 LilyPond 2 9 26 available October 20 2006 This release has further bugfixes Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 Community 141 LilyPond 2 9 25 available October 18 2006 This release has more bugfixes from now on binaries are also available for x86 64 Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 24 available October 15 2006 This release has support for right hand guitar fingerings and offers some bugfixes Changes page 68 Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 23 available October 12 2006 This release cuts fragments of EPS directly from your finished score and makes it easier to insert ties into lyrics Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 22 available October 9 2006 Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2 10 Old downloads page 55
5. Oexod ov0Goo begin singleline ililypond seufzer notes i dis 8 e 8 score f notes seufzer seutzer 31 end lilypond il endiminipage il enditabular 3 smallskip LilyPond has no concept of part extraction because there is no m for such a concept Music fragments are assigned to identifiers music is then either conbined into a full orchestral score or it is used for creating the separate parts Parts and scores are der from the same input so changes in that input are always applied f both print outs report tex D 2 36 0 19 LaTeX Fill L258 293 Lily Pond has no concept of part extraction because there is no need for such a concept Music fragments are assigned to iden fiers The music is then either combined into a full orchestral score or it is used for creating the separate parts Parts and scores Text based input LilyPond takes ASCII input which you can produce in your favorite text editor quickly and comfortably The input contains all the information so there is no need to remember complex command sequences simply save a file for later reference Mix music and text Put fragments of music into texts without cutting and pasting pictures Integrate music into IATEX and HTML seamlessly or add music to OpenOffice org or LibreOffice with OOoLilyPond Plugins are also available to allow LilyPond code in various blogs and wikis making o
6. Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 61 available October 1 2008 LilyPond 2 11 61 has been released It has updates to documentation translations and a new automatic accidentals style teaching has been added Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 60 available September 25 2008 LilyPond 2 11 60 has been released A new style of double repeat bar line has been added and printallheaders variable in score block has been renamed to print all headers Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 59 available September 20 2008 Release 2 11 59 is out LilyPond now uses 64 bit integers for rational numbers which allows typesetting more complex polymetric music This release also has updates to German and Spanish translations of the documentation Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 58 available September 13 2008 LilyPond 2 11 58 is a beta release which means the next stable release is expected in a few weeks This release is also special as it includes code which supports more flexible automatic accidentals rules written several months ago by Rune Zedeler deceased since then All the development team express their condolences to his family and his friends Besides this automatic beaming has been improved by Carl Sorensen support for creating stem flags in a new style has been contributed by Reinhold Kainhofer and a few bugs have been fixed Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads pag
7. large single download 1 MB e essay pdf download as a PDF file large single download 2 MB Notation Notation reference This book explains all the LilyPond commands which produce notation Manuals 67 Note the Notation reference assumes that the reader knows basic ma terial covered in the Learning manual and is familiar with the English musical terms presented in the glossary Read it e Notation split HTML the manual is split between many HTML pages small download for each page e Notation big HTML read this manual as one huge HTML page large single download 9 MB e notation pdf download as a PDF file large single download 35 MB Usage Usage manual This book explains how to execute the programs how to integrate LilyPond notation with other programs and suggests best practices for efficient use It is recommended reading before attempting any large projects Read it e Usage split HTML the manual is split between many HTML pages small download for each page e Usage big HTML read this manual as one huge HTML page large single download 400 KB e usage pdf download as a PDF file large single download 650 KB Snippets Snippets This shows a selected set of LilyPond snippets from the LilyPond Snippet Repository LSR All the snippets are in the public domain Please note that this document is not an exact subset of LSR LSR is running
8. LilyPond 2 13 44 is out this is the third beta test of the upcoming 2 14 stable release Users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There is still one Critical problem with this release in one case the vertical spacing is much too compressed If you decide to test this version do not be surprised to discover problems just send us polite Bug reports page 97 Beta test two of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 43 released Dec 14 2010 LilyPond 2 13 43 is out this is the second beta test of the upcoming 2 14 stable release Users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There is still one Critical problem with this release in one case the vertical spacing is much too compressed If you decide to test this version do not be surprised to discover problems just send us polite Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 13 42 released Dec 8 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 42 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only Please note that this is not the second beta test Due to a number of untested changes to our build process we cannot be at all confident about the quality of th
9. partially translated 87 partially up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Manuals 84 A GNU Free Till Paala Francisco John Man Team hu Federico Yoshiki Documenta Vila dereau Bruni Sawada tion License not trans Jean not trans 3724 lated not trans Charles lated Luca not trans lated Malahieude Rossetto lated up to up to Casel date up to date up to date not trans not trans date lated lated up to up to date date LilyPond cs de es fr hu it ja nl zh Music notation for everyone Section Pavel Till Francisco John Harmath Federico Yoshiki Jan Ben titles Fric Paala Vila Man D nes Bruni Sawada Nieuwen Luo 616 dereau huizen Anthony translatedranslatedranslated translatedLuca Yoshinobu Fok Ros Ishizaki translated setto Tineke translated partially up to up to partiallyCasel de up to date date up to translatddunnik date up to date translated up to date date up to translated up to date date up to date LilyPond Pavel Till Francisco John Harmath Federico Yoshiki Jan Ben NXIT Fric Paala Vila Man D nes Bruni Sawada Nieuwen Luo TLE dereau huizen Anthony 1139 translatedranslatedranslated translated uca Yoshinobu Fok Ros Ishizaki translated setto Tineke translated partially up to up to partiallyCasel de up to date date up to translatddunnik date up to date translated date up to translated up to date date up to date Manuals 85 IntroductiorPavel Till Francisco Gauvain Harma
10. test 1y file Double click it and it should open in your PDF viewer Adobe Reader test pdf ps File Edit View Document Tools Window Help 1 lit 459 H Find Z A scale in LilyPond For more information on using LilyPond please see httpy lilypond org introduction html Other commands To create a new file begin by selecting File gt New from within any previously created file or File gt Open to open and edit any files you have saved before You can also edit a file by right clicking it and selecting Edit source Generate PDF Open With amp amp Add to archive Wadd to test rar compress and email Compress to test rar and email Send To Cut Copy Create Shortcut Delete Rename Properties test ly Download 54 You must save any edits you make before you try to compile your file If the PDF file is not created or the output is not what you expected check the log file that will have been created during the compilation attempt for any errors P bad log Notepad File Edit Format View Help compilation Processing C Documents and Settings Phil Desktop bad 1ly Parsing C Documents and Settings Phil Desktop bad ly 9 1 error syntax error unexpected relative c Interpreting music Preprocessing graphical objects Finding the ideal number of pages Fitting music on 1 page Drawing systems Layout output to Doc
11. up to date es Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila not translated up to date 70 Federico Bruni translated up to date fr Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Jean Charles Malahieude John Mandereau Gauvain Pocentek translated up to date Jean Jacques Gerbaud Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude partially translated 92 up to date Jean Charles Malahieude not translated up to date Manuals a Extending LilyPond de es fr Section titles Till Paala Francisco Vila Jean Charles 107 Malahieude translated translated translated up to date up to date up to date LilyPond TITLE Till Paala Francisco Vila Jean Charles 1139 Malahieude translated translated translated up to date up to date up to date 1 Scheme tutorial Till Paala Francisco Vila Jean Charles 6271 Malahieude partially translated translated 53 translated up to date partially up to date up to date 2 Interfaces for pro Till Paala Francisco Vila Valentin Villenave grammers Jean Charles 5925 translated translated Malahieude partially up to date up to date Gilles Thibault translated up to date A GNU Free Documen Till Paala Francisco Vila Jean Charles tation License Malahieude 3724 not translated
12. Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date 82 Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada partially translated 97 partially up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Manuals 3 Running Reinhold lilypond book Kainhofer 4137 4 External programs 2817 5 Suggestions for writing files 2692 Til Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala Reinhold Kainhofer partially translated 87 partially up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Ludovic Sardain Jean Charles Malahieude Jean Yves Baudais Valentin Villenave John Man dereau translated up to date Team hu partially translated 13 partially up to date Team hu not trans lated up to date Team hu not trans lated up to date Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date 83 Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Yoshiki Sawada
13. If you are not a programmer you can hire somebody to do those tasks This may not seem appealing to casual musicians but the ability to extend software can be highly valuable to serious composers companies and academics e Future safety if a commercial company goes bankrupt what happens to any electronic music which depends on their products This is not a concern with LilyPond even if the entire development team quits extremely unlikely the program will still be legally available for copying modifications and distribution Why do LilyPond developers give away their work for free Most of us view LilyPond development as a hobby or volunteer work So this question is really asking why do people volunteer e Fun working towards a goal can be enjoyable especially when you work as a team e Shared goals we all want beautiful sheet music but few people have the expertise and nobody has the time to create a program which can handle all situations By working together one person improves the automatic beaming code another person improves the shape of slurs and a third person writes documentation explaining how to use these features we can achieve our goal with only a fraction of the individual effort e Gift culture the Free Software movement has created many great software projects such as GNU Linux Mozilla Firefox and Battle for Wesnoth Having benefitted from these projects some developers want to give
14. LilyPond 2 9 21 available October 4 2006 Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2 10 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 20 available October 3 2006 Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2 10 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 17 available September 2 2006 This release fixes many bugs Among others MacOS X QuickTime now honors tempo changes are in the MIDI output Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 16 available August 25 2006 In this release chords may be partially tied and lyric extenders have tunable padding Moreover many bugs were fixed Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 15 available August 20 2006 This releases fixes many bugs in the 2 9 14 release Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 8 6 available August 8 2006 This release contains a few minor bugfixes the source tarball is also available Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 14 available August 4 2006 This release supports instrument name changes dotted barlines and better spacing for floating grace notes In addition it contains ongoing work by Erik Sandberg to extend the interpretation phase with stream support Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 13 available July 23 2006 This release supports doits and falls and more tuning options for grace note spacing and tuplet brackets Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 12 ava
15. LilyPond now has a Documentation Editor Graham Percival From now on he will oversee that useful information flows from the mailiing list into the manual Also if there are unclear sections in the manual let him know via one of the mailing lists As a start of his career he worked to transform the Templates section of the website into a readable and comprehensive chapter of the user manual A lot of cheers for Graham August 29 2004 LilyPond 2 3 13 was released The new slur code was improved scripts can be made to avoid slurs by setting inside slur to f It is no longer necessary to instantiate up and down staves separately when using Nautochange Jurgen Reuter refreshed the logic around mensural flags so they are adjusted for staff lines once again Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog August 24 2004 LilyPond 2 2 6 fixes a few minor issues among others the disappearing metronome mark Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog August 23 2004 LilyPond 2 3 12 is out This release has a lot of fixes and a new feature there is now support for putting two slurs on chords both above and below This is switched on with the doubleSlurs property Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog August 3 2004 LilyPond 2 3 11 is out This release basically is 2 3 10 with a few annoying bugs fixed Old downloads page 55 and check out the ch
16. Old downloads page 55 March 14 2004 The linuxmusician com interview made the slashdot frontpage March 11 2004 linuxmusician com is running an interview with Han Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen the main authors of LilyPond March 11 2004 LilyPond 2 1 30 has editorial fixes for the manual and experimental support for page layout in the PostScript backend See the Changes page 68 and Old downloads page 55 March 9 2004 LilyPond 2 1 29 fixes a couple of MIDI bugs and has experimental support for producing titles with markup February 29 2004 In LilyPond 2 1 28 Scheme property functions may be used argument to set In addition parts of the manual have been proofread and corrected in this release See the Changes page 68 and Old downloads page 55 Community 159 February 24 2004 LilyPond 2 1 27 takes into account instrument transpositions when quoting other voices This release also fixes a number of lyrics related bugs See the Changes page 68 and Old downloads page 55 February 23 2004 LilyPond 2 1 26 has a new experimental feature for quoting other voices in instrumental parts This can be used to produce cue notes More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 February 18 2004 LilyPond 2 1 25 fixes many bugs and changes the conventions for altering accidental rules Old downloads page 55 February 16 2004 LilyPond 2 1 24 has a big internal rewr
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19. implementation of autochange More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 February 2 2004 LilyPond 2 1 17 is out It adds texts solo a due for the part combiner It also reinstates the safe option which prevents havoc by Scheme exploits More information in the Changes page 68 Community 160 January 28 2004 LilyPond 2 1 16 is out its main feature is that it fixes the autobeams gaffe of 2 1 15 The part combiner has been tested successfully on larger pieces In the near future expect more part combining eye candy More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 January 26 2004 LilyPond 2 1 15 further improves the part combiner and fixes many bugs among others in pedal brackets and finger positioning More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 January 21 2004 LilyPond 2 1 14 has the first release of the new part combiner If you have scores that use part combining please consider giving it a test run In addition many bugs relating to mixed staff sizes have been fixed More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 January 20 2004 The lilypond org domain has been moved to a new server This will result in better connectivity and more bandwidth Due to security concerns the new server does not offer FTP access but only HTTP downloads January 20 2004 LilyPond 2 1 13 fixes a small but nasty bug in side positioning plac
20. lenave John Man dereau translated up to date Manuals 2 Common notation 4396 3 Funda mental concepts 11144 73 Pavel Till Francisco Nicolas Harmath Federico Yoshiki Jan Fric Paala Vila Grand D nes Bruni Sawada Nieuwen claude huizen partially partially translated udovic partially Luca trans trans Sar trans Ros partially lated lated dain lated setto trans 3596 35 up to Gauvain 3596 Casel lated partially date Pocen 3596 trans partially partially tek partially translated lated up to up to up to partially 35 96 date date Jean date up to Charles up to date partially Malahieude date up to date Valentin Vil lenave John Man dereau translated up to date Pavel Till Francisco Valentin Harmath Federico Yoshiki Jan Fric Paala Vila Vil D nes Bruni Sawada Nieuwen Reinhold lenave huizen translate ain translatedJean translated Luca hofer Charles Ros translated Malahieude setto partially translated up to partially Casel translated up to date up to partially date John date translatedip to partially Man date partially up to dereau up to date up to date translated date up to date Manuals 4 Tweaking output 16191 A Tem plates 372 B GNU Free Documen tation License 3724 74 Pavel Till Francisco Valentin Harmath Federico Yoshiki Jan Fric Paala Vila Vil D nes Bruni Sawada Nieuwen lenave huizen partially partially translatedNicolas not Luca trans trans
21. the music would be confusing to read LilyPond makes it much easier for me to work in my dual editor engraver role Tve been using LilyPond exclusively for my fledgling music publishing business Virtually without exception every composer has been blown away by the quality of the engraving when presented with the proofs of their music about to be published I deserve some of the credit for this I spend a lot of time tweaking output especially ties mainly in chords but LilyPond Introduction 27 gives me an excellent starting point a very intuitive interface and the ability to modify abso lutely anything if I want to take the time I m convinced that no commercial product can come close David Bobroff Bass Trombone Iceland Symphony Orchestra I think LilyPond is great The more I learn about LilyPond the more I like it Vaylor Trucks Electric guitar player Yes related to I am super impressed with LilyPond THIS IS THE BEST PROGRAM EVER Thank you all SO MUCH for your hard work and dedication Nicolas Sceaux Mutopia contributor I had a kind of hate passion relationship with it Passion because the first score I saw was so amazing The description of LilyPond lies about its beautifulness it is too modest as LilyPond is getting always better and as I look closer how things are done in scheme I have less and less frustrations Anyway what I mean is thank you for pr
22. 0 release However please continue testing it we would like to discover and fix any Community 116 more regressions as soon as possible If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 Release candidate 7 of 2 16 LilyPond 2 15 39 released May 22 2012 LilyPond 2 15 39 is out this is the seventh release candidate of the upcoming 2 16 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 14 2 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 16 0 release will be on 05 June 2012 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 The LilyPond Report 26 May 22 2012 The LilyPond Report is back with a new editor on board Pavel Roskin who tells us about his adventures in strange lands of compiler bugs There is also a detailed report about current development status and an analysis of example LilyPond output see for yourself how close or how far are we from matching the quality of hand engraved scores Come read LilyPond Report 26 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged Release candidate 6 of 2 16 LilyPond 2 15 38 released May 3 2012 LilyPond 2 15 38 is out this is the sixth release candidate of the upcoming 2 16 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this ver
23. 1 2 or later We found the image on this Wikimedia Commons page Windows Note LilyPond is a text based music engraver it is more similar to a programming language than a graphical score editing program Before downloading LilyPond please read about our Text input page 27 Packages Download e EH Windows LilyPond 2 18 2 1For Windows 2000 XP Vista Windows 7 and 8 Install 1 Locate the downloaded file and double click on it to start the installer Follow the instruc tions given to you by the installer we recommend that you leave all the install options checked and use the default installation location Click the Finish button when the in staller has completed LilyPond is now installed Download 49 Uninstall To uninstall LilyPond either 1 Locate the LilyPond folder from the Start menu and click on the Uninstall icon Click the Finish button when the uninstaller has completed 2 Or from within the Control Panel locate and select LilyPond and then choose the option to uninstall remove the software Click the Finish button when the uninstaller has completed Running on the command line Note If you are happy with the GUI instructions below then please ignore these instructions Windows on the command line The most convenient way to run LilyPond is by adding the folder which contains LilyPond executable files to the environmental variable Path 1 Open your
24. 112 3l Piccolo Flutes I amp II Oboes I amp II Clarinets I amp II inB Bassoons I amp II HornsI amp II inF Horns III amp IV inF pp Molto cresc Trumpets I amp II inBh Trumpet III inB Trombones I amp II Bass trombone amp Tuba Timpani in A D amp E Triangle Suspended cymbal Tamtam Tambourine Snare drum Bass drum Harp NITE Presto d 112 ViolinI Sul ponticello Violin II p Sul ponticello Viola Sul ponticello Violoncello Contrabass Introduction 22 Where now Still not convinced LilyPond is Free software granting you Freedom page 22 If you ve already decided to try LilyPond first read about our Text input page 27 Freedom Free Software GNU LilyPond is written and maintained by community of enthusiasts It is published under the GPL page 55 and the FDL page 87 giving everybody the freedom to fix modify and extend the program Creating beautiful music should not require hundreds of dollars of software What are the benefits to users e No cost download and try it out What do you have to lose e Sharing if you like the program give a copy to your friends teachers students and colleagues e Source available if you are curious about how LilyPond creates some notation you can see exactly how it is done e Extendible you can add features fix bugs and change the functionality
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26. Fingering B E once override Fingering all s lur p e Li a cisti r b e gie d d ral eB alculating page breaks ri Layout output ta Ba O ile neh ona rting To lesene reides pdT Biu Pho gem hs Pe ponds 138 re QUO T tvpand 3nput Tes neret des E H Processing input les neretdes Wwe Parsing interpreting music Prep ER graphical objects m in Calculating reakz alculating page breaks Lay ur output to 1e4 ner ides ps anverting ta lez nerejdez pdf nau rb losen rc Typondg gu Tes neretdes hs WA i 28 LilyPond is a compiled system it is run on a text file describing the music The resulting output is viewed on screen or printed In some ways LilyPond is more similar to a programming language than graphical score editing software You do not write music by dragging notes from a graphical toolbar and placing them on a dynamically refreshing score you write music by typing text This text is interpreted or compiled by LilyPond which produces beautifully engraved sheet music People accustomed to graphical user interfaces might need to learn a new way of working but the results are definitely worth it Note We present a quick overview of our text input it s not as com plicated as it sounds Don t worry about understanding every detail in these examples our beginner documentation covers everything at a much more gradual pace Introducti
27. French mailing list Dutch forum Stay Informed LilyPond Report The easiest way to keep touch is by reading our community newsletter the LilyPond Report http news lilynet net Releases mailing list info lilypond gnu org This mailing list is a low volume read only list which receives notifications of new releases info lilypond subscribe and info info archivel archive2 archive3 Developer Discussion Developer mailing list lilypond devel gnu org Most developer discussion takes place on this list Patches should be sent here lilypond devel subscribe and info devel archivel archive2 archive3 send to lilypond devel with gmane Bug mailing list bug lilypond gnu org Bug specific discussion takes place here bug lilypond subscribe and info bug archivel archive2 archive3 Note Before sending a message to the bug list please read our guide lines for Bug reports page 97 Sensitive emails Private matters should be sent to Graham Percival project manager who will discuss it with those concerned Tiny examples What are Tiny examples A tiny example is an example from which nothing can be removed Why create them e The simpler the example is the quicker potential helpers can understand it and help you Community 97 e A tiny example demonstrates that you have put effort towards solving the problem yourself When people send huge portions of input it looks like they don t care if we help them or
28. Himmerle Marc Hohl James Lowe Andrew Main Thomas Morley David Nalesnik Keith OHara Benk Pal Anders Pilegaard Julien Rioux Johannes Rohrer Adam Spiers Heikki Tauriainen Documentation Writers Fr d ric Bron Federico Bruni Colin Campbell Urs Liska James Lowe Thomas Morley Jean Charles Malahieude Guy Stalnaker Martin Tarenskeen Arnold Theresius Rodolfo Zitellini Bug Squad Colin Campbell Eluze Marc Hohl Phil Holmes Marek Klein Ralph Palmer Support Team Colin Campbell Eluze Marc Hohl Marek Klein Kieren MacMillan Urs Liska Ralph Palmer Translators Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel Felipe Castro Pavel Fric Jean Charles Malahieude Till Paala Yoshiki Sawada and numerous other contributors LilyPond blog June 2 2013 Janek Warchot has created a LilyPond blog You can find it at lilypondblog org LilyPond 2 16 2 released January 4 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 16 2 This release is mainly to correct a problem with lilypond book running on Windows We recommend that only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version The LilyPond Report 28 November 12 2012 The October issue of the LilyPond Report focuses on the meeting of LilyPond developers and users in Waltrop Germany last August Of course there are also some musings on LilyPond triggered by the release of 2 16 0 and 2 17 0 occuring from that venue There are also two monthly financial reports
29. Layout output to test ps Converting to test pdf Download AT Step 3 View output Once the compilation has finished a PDF file will be created with the same name as the original file and will be automatically opened in the default PDF viewer and displayed on your screen E test adf 1 a 000 a gt o ce CD Zoom To Fi Hove Socci Mark Up Other commands To create new files for LilyPond begin by selecting File gt New Open Recent Close HW Save 5 Save As 35 Revert Page Setup Print Download 48 or File gt Open to open and edit existing files you have saved previously t LilyPond ij Edit Compile Font Window Help Open Recent Close EW Save aes Save As 365 Revert Page Setup 0 P Print F You must save any new edits you make to your file before you Compile gt Typeset and if the PDF file is not displayed check the window with the progress log for any errors If you are not using the default Preview PDF viewer that comes with the Mac Operating system and you have the PDF file generated from a previous compilation open then any further compilations may fail to generate an update PDF until you close the original Legalese All logos and product images are copyright and trademark acknowledged The X image is not a registered trademark It was created by Nihonjoe and CyberSkull and placed under the GNU Free Documentation License version
30. LilyPond provides or read about users Productions page 23 and Reviews page 24 In addition our approach to the computational aesthetics of classical engraving is explained in our Background page 22 Legalese All logos and product images are copyright and trademark acknowledged Tux the Linux Penguin was created by lewing isc tamu edu with the Gnu Image Manipula tion Program The FreeBSD logo is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation The X image is not a registered trademark It was created by Nihonjoe and CyberSkull and placed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1 2 or later We found the image on this Wikimedia Commons page The four colored rectangles image is not a registered trademark It was created by Rohitbd and placed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1 2 We found the image on this Wikimedia Commons page Download 39 Download Downloads for LilyPond 2 19 3 Note Links for the stable version of LilyPond can be found at lilypond org A Note LilyPond is a text based music engraver it is more similar to a programming language than a graphical score editing program Before downloading LilyPond please read about our Text input page 27 A For users e Unix page 40 Unix page 40 e MacOS X page 42 MacOS X page 42 e Windows page 48 Windows page 48 For developers e Source page 54 for packagers e Old down
31. System on the Control Panel select Advanced tab and click Environmental Variables button 2 Select the Variable Path from Environmental variables list and click the Edit button You will be presented a window titled Edit System Variable append to Variable value the name of the folder which contains LilyPond executable files like this pre set paths DIR LilyPond usr bin Note DIR will generally be C Program Files and click OK button to close the window Invoking individual executable files LilyPond executable files such as lilypond lilypond book convert ly and so on can be run from the command line by invoking them lilypond test ly Compiling a file Note These instructions assume that you are using the built in LilyPad editor If you are using any of the programs described in Section Easier editing in General Information please consult the documentation for those programs if you have any problems compiling a file Download Step 1 Create your 1y file Double click the LilyPond icon on your desktop and an example file will open Welcome to LilyPond ly LilyPad DEAR Eile Edit Search Help Et Welcome to LilyPond Congratulations LilyPond has been installed successfully Now to take it for the first test run Save this LilyPond file on your desktop with the name test ly Pick it up from the desktop with your mouse pointer drag and drop it onto the
32. Violino I Music engraving by LilyPond 2 18 2 www lilypond org G F Handel 14 Introduction 15 Tablature LilyPond supports tablature notation which can be customized to suit any instrument that reads from tablature The tablature staff is generated automatically from notes entered for the 5 line staff Ver M asm ELI fug Guitar r 12 12 0 ITA 2 0 0 12 Music engraving by LilyPond 2 18 2 www lilypond org Introduction 16 Schenker Graphs Standard output can be modified heavily Here is an impressive Schenkerian analysis created by Kris Schaffer for an article in Linux Journal The colors have been added for better visibility Wenn wir in h chsten N ten sein Analysis from Gene Biringer s Schenker Text Ex 5 27 J S Bach w gt d bh Music engraving by LilyPond 2 18 2 www lilypond org Introduction 17 Vocal Music LilyPond is excellent for vocal music of all kinds from sacred hymns to opera Here is a medieval motet with slightly unusual requirements The tenor voice is written in a different meter than the others but must line up as if it were in the same meter LilyPond handles this most elegantly Introduction 18 Note also the incipits with Vaticana style clefs the slashed stems indicating plicated notes and the ligat
33. al 2 mn Fi sni dee poi den Sams ume womiom ee re dm 1 3 pipe ril is ead 4 hl Fon You TA ow a d iL H3 i AT a zd fa Tia la m g Plh pl din a di Pla d mL ca rs e e cis id ii E HI risi dis cip amp atimsi _ TAT THA PS HI ar BI F 1 Aamm mu od 5 3 essa da Vici rad mi di cai 1 ii tus 48 ab CR FILI Yma O jab fiA or tir diviene re TE Uv n n 4 LE E mi La ib E Rag Bii bus d CORE MORES ieri Sorini a umes pa Rad Cee El ED TRAE MAR prio M ro biih The Liew Riisin mau Jer cp d acd matri forno gm Frame srt ka nut Ce o deine da i ee ee ee mee EE 1 Lil em EI HF emen dini na Pd cma riti a Rn i 1 LilyPond is primarily concerned with producing top quality engraved sheet music creating a Graphical User Interface GUI would distract us from this goal However there are other projects aimed at making it easier to create LilyPond input files Some editing environments include syntax highlighting automatic command completion and pre made templates Other programs actually provide a GUI which allows direct manipulation of a graphical score For more information see Easier editing page 33 Where now You are now ready to Download page 39 Still not convinced Read about Easier editing page 33 Easier editing Tunefl Introduction 34 http www tunefl com With tunefl you can typeset your scores directly online without needing to ins
34. also has small updates to the tablature settings by Erlend Aasland assorted manual updates by Graham and an overhaul of the font code by Werner Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog January 02 2005 LilyPond 2 5 6 was released This is a technology preview release which means that it has all kinds of nifty features but is not actually usable for producing nicely printed scores For this reason an RPM of this release was not produced The PS backend is now completely switched over to Pango Font Config for f ps LilyPond only accepts UTFS input all text fonts are loaded through Pango the TeX backend now offloads all metric computations to LaTeX the SVG and GNOME backends are broken most probably Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog December 28 2004 LilyPond 2 5 5 is out It is the first one to link against FontConfig and Pango although it is only available in the f ps output The default output format has been changed back TeX while we stabilize the Pango FontConfig integration Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog December 20 2004 LilyPond 2 5 4 is out This release has some major brainsurgery in the font handling As of now LilyPond loads the music fonts in OpenType font format using FreeType This has made a lot of things simpler including font handling for the GNOME backend and SVG backend Old downloads page 55 and check
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36. are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 16 0 release will be on 20 April 2012 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 Community 117 The LilyPond Report 25 Apr 1st 2012 The LilyPond Report is back with a rather unusual issue featuring our young Polish contributor Janek Warchol Also included in this issue are quite a few unexpected items including but not limited to a cooking recipe Come read LilyPond Report 25 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged LilyPond 2 15 35 released Mar 28 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 35 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 34 released Mar 19 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 34 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 33 released Mar 08 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 33 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal
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38. bunch of minor bugfixes This is another release candidate for version 2 6 which should be released within the next 2 weeks Please send a bug report if you find a critical problem with this release Old downloads page 55 Community 150 Windows and MacOS installers available May 26 2005 There are now a native standalone installers for Windows and MacOS They also support PDF point amp click Old downloads page 55 2 5 26 released May 26 2005 This release has a couple of small bugfixes 2 5 25 released May 20 2005 This release has many small bugfixes and updates to the documentation Old downloads page 55 2 5 24 released May 12 2005 2 5 24 fixes a bunch of bugs in particular chord symbols such as slashed o should now work on all platforms This release has a new feature it is now possible to make staves appear in a different order from the order that they were defined Old downloads page 55 2 5 23 released May 6 2005 This release has a couple of small bugfixes and a new feature It is now possible to start and stop the StaffSymbol during a piece of music by doing stopStaff startStaff This can be used to produce Ossia staves Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 2 5 22 released May 3 2005 2 5 22 is a bugfix release The most visible improvement is in the PDF this release will produce smaller PDF files with symbols that look better on screen Old downloads page 55
39. by our fellow contributors Urs Liska and Janek Warchot 1 will receive the Musikeditionspreis BEST EDITION 2014 of the German Music Publishers Association 2 The ceremony will take place in a few days at the Frankfurt Musikmesse 3 We congratulate Janek and Urs for gaining such public recognition of typographical and editorial excellence of their work We are also delighted to inform you that they intend to make their work available under a Free license as soon as the publisher expenses are covered Please support this initiative by buying the printed volume through the publisher 4 or by pledging a contribution at the Indiegogo campaign 5 1 http lilypondblog org category fried songs 2 http www best edition de 3 https musik nessefrankfurt com frankfurt en besucher events awards best edition html 4 http www sound rel de 5 http igg me at free fried LilyPond 2 19 3 released March 2 2014 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 19 3 This release includes a number of enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 18 version Lilypond 2 18 0 released December 29 2013 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2 18 0 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highe
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41. development releases are now fully listed on the News page Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 51 available July 8 2008 Release 2 11 51 has a couple of bugfixes and a lot of changes in predefined command names Fret diagrams formatting has been improved by Carl Sorensen it is now controlled by fret diagram details property Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 50 available July 2 2008 Release 2 11 50 adds support for metronome marks with text and backslashed numbers for figured bass contributed by Reinhold Kainhofer Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 The LilyPond Report 13 June 23 2008 This short informal weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project its team its world its community Follow this link to read the full issue The LilyPond Report 12 June 16 2008 This short informal weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project its team its world its community Follow this link to read the full issue LilyPond 2 11 49 released June 12 2008 LilyPond 2 11 49 is out It fixes a number of bugs including bugs in beams formatting Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 48 released June 9 2008 LilyPond 2 11 48 is out This release fixes a few bugs and compressMusic has been renamed to scaleDurations Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 The LilyPond Report 11 June 9 2008 This short informal weekly opinion column is about
42. encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 4 released October 6 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 4 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 16 version Community 114 LilyPond 2 17 3 released September 23 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 3 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 2 released September 10 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 2 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 1 released August 28 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 1 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 0 released August 26 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 0 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 16 version Lilypond 2 1
43. for developers only This release radically changes the autobeaming rules so use extra caution and expect break age LilyPond 2 13 28 released July 13 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 28 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only This release includes some major untested changes to the windows lilypad editor Windows users should not be using this release because it is intended for developers only but you ignore these warnings and try it anyway use extra caution LilyPond 2 13 27 released July 5 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 27 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only Testing our new website June 29 2010 We re testing our new website For the next 24 hours the new website will be the default website after that we will switch back to the old website while we examine feedback and make improvements to the new website Please send feedback to lilypond user you can find more information on our page about Contact page 95 Note There are a few known problems with translations If you are a non English speaker you may prefer to view the old lilypond website at http lilypond org web LilyPond 2 13 26 released June 26 2010 We are happy t
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45. improvements have been made in the past two and a half years since the previous main stable version A few major improvements are e LilyPond is now licensed under the GNU GPL v3 or higher e The vertical spacing engine has been drastically changed making it much more flexible and easier to control e Automatic beaming is now more flexible and beam collisions are avoided A full list of new features is given in http lilypond org doc v2 14 Documentation changes index html Happy music typesetting LilyPond 2 14 was brought to you by Main development team Trevor Daniels Reinhold Kainhofer David Kastrup Jonathan Kulp Werner Lemberg John Mandereau Patrick McCarty Joe Neeman Han Wen Nienhuys Jan Nieuwenhuizen Graham Percival Mark Polesky Neil Puttock Mike Solomon Carl Sorensen Francisco Vila Valentin Villenave Programming contributors Community 123 Sven Axelsson P l Benk Bertrand Bordage Fr d ric Bron Peter Chubb Hajo Dezelski Richard Gay Keith OHara Andrew Hawryluk Christian Hitz Marc Hohl Henning Hraban Ramm Ian Hulin Michael K ppler Marek Klein Kieren MacMillan Thomas Morgan Ben jamin Peterson Nathan Reed Julien Rioux Boris Shingarov Patrick Schmidt Owen Tuz Jan Warchol Andrew Wilson Rodolfo Zitellini Font contributors Keith OHara Marc Hohl Alexander Kobel Carsten Steger Documentation contributors Colin Campbell Andrew Hawryluk James Lowe Mike Moral Ralph Palmer
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47. incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 14 released March 10 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 14 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes including putting span bars back where they should be and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 13 released February 23 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 13 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 12 released February 8 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 12 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version Community 113 LilyPond 2 17 11 released January 26 2
48. not translated not translated up to date up to date up to date LilyPond cs de es fr hu ja nl Learning Manual Section ti Pavel Till Francisco John Harmath Federico Yoshiki Jan tles Fric Paala Vila Man D nes Sawada Nieuwen 124 dereau huizen translated translated translatedJean translated Luca Charles translated Malahieude partially up to up to partially Casel translated up to date date up to up to date translatedlate translatedlate up to date up to up to date Manuals LilyPond TITLE 1139 1 Tutorial 2578 72 Pavel Till Francisco John Harmath Federico Yoshiki Jan Fric Paala Vila Man D nes Bruni Sawada Nieuwen dereau huizen translated translated translatedJean translated Luca Charles Ros translated Malahieude setto partially up to up to partially Casel translated up to date date up to up to date translatedlate translatedlate up to date up to up to date date Pavel Till Francisco Nicolas Harmath Federico Yoshiki Jan Fric Paala Vila Grand D nes Bruni Sawada Nieuwen Reinhold claude huizen partially Kain translated judovic partially Luca trans hofer Sar trans Ros partially lated dain lated setto trans 48 90 Hajo up to Gauvain 44 Casel lated partially Bag date Pocen 48 trans partially tek partially translated lated up to partially up to partially 48 date trans Jean date up to lated Charles up to date partially 48 76 Malahieude date up to date partially up to Valentin date Vil
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50. only This release should be of particular interest to package maintainers we have made a few changes to the configure script and the required libraries Barring any urgent bug reports this is the build system and libraries that will be used for the next stable release LilyPond Report 18 May 11 2010 The LilyPond Report is back with its two grumpy and fluffy editors This issue will be filled with emotion and coolness paper bags and zigzag ending staves plus the usual Frogs and Bugs Come read LilyPond Report 18 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged LilyPond 2 13 20 released May 5 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 20 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only Minor syntax change the undocumented cresc and decresc have changed In addition the options for the LaTeX mode of 1ilypond book now comes after the l1ilypond following normal LaTeX practice As always see the Changes document for more information LilyPond 2 13 19 released April 24 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 19 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However 11 critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond 2 13 18 released April 16 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 18 This release conta
51. org hosting Linuxaudio VirgniaTech http linuxaudio org Release downloads Google Code http code google com Issue tracker Rietveld https codereview appspot com Code review Maison des Sciences de l Homme Paris Nord http www mshparisnord fr Automated build tests Publications What we wrote about LilyPond Server Acim GNU LilyPond Turkish Language 2013 PDF 2100k Graham Percival Sustainability in F OSS developers as a non renewable resource In Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2010 RMLL2010 2010 PDF 333k Han Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen LilyPond a system for automated music engraving In Colloquium on Musical Informatics XIV CIM 2003 May 2003 PDF 95k Han Wen Nienhuys LilyPond Automated music formatting and the Art of Shipping In Forum Internacional Software Livre 2006 FISL7 0 2006 PDF 1095k Margarethe Maierhofer Lischka amp Florian Hollerweger Lilypond music notation for ev eryone In Linux Audio Conference 2013 LAC2013 2013 PDF 890k Reinhold Kainhofer OrchestralLily A Package for Professional Music Publishing with LilyPond and LATEX In The Linux Audio Conference 2010 LAC2010 2010 PDF 767k Erik Sandberg Separating input language and formatter in GNU LilyPond Master s thesis Uppsala University Department of Information Technology March 2006 PDF 750k What people did with LilyPond Kevin C Baird Real time generation of music notation via aud
52. stable version has completely revamped support for for orchestral score formatting cue notes font size management lyric formatting drum notation playback Community 158 and document integration Read about it in the announcement or skip to the Old downloads page 55 March 31 2004 LilyPond 2 1 37 has build fixes for Cygwin and SUSE bugfixes for part combining and chord tremolos and even more documentation polish This should be the final release candidate expect only regression bugs to be fixed before 2 2 Old downloads page 55 March 30 2004 LilyPond 2 1 36 has many fixes in the user manual Old downloads page 55 March 28 2004 LilyPond 2 1 35 fixes a slew of bugs and has the raggedlast option which causes paragraph like line breaking for scores More info in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 March 22 2004 LilyPond 2 1 34 fixes minor bugs and has more rewriting Old downloads page 55 March 21 2004 LilyPond 2 1 33 fixes a serious bug and a few other irritations Old downloads page 55 March 20 2004 LilyPond 2 1 32 has more rewriting in the user manual There is also an experimental imple mentation of optimal page breaking Postscript backend only Old downloads page 55 March 15 2004 LilyPond 2 1 31 is out It has fixes the alignment of bass figures and spurious dynamic warnings in MIDI New attractions include rewritten font selection routines See the Changes page 68 and
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54. the LilyPond project its team its world its community Follow this link to read the full issue Community 135 The LilyPond Report 10 June 2 2008 Welcome to this special tenth issue of the LilyPond Report entirely dedicated to Algorithmic Composition systems Follow this link to read the full issue LilyPond 2 11 47 released May 28 2008 LilyPond now allows all text context properties to be markups except in lyricmode This release also fixes regression tests maintenance for developers Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 46 available May 22 2008 Release 2 11 46 fixes a lot of bugs and includes a rewrite of dynamics engravers Support for slur shaped arpeggios has been added Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 RSS feed May 21 2008 A RSS feed is now available on lilypond org It contains all news announced on the web site start page releases LilyPond report new translations of the site and publications Feed URL The info mailing list see Contact page 95 is still used to announce releases and special events The LilyPond Report 9 May 05 2008 Welcome to this ninth issue of the LilyPond Report This short informal weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project its team its world its community Follow this link to read the full issue LilyPond 2 11 45 available April 26 2008 Release 2 11 45 fixes a couple of bugs in the formatting engine lilypond bo
55. translated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date 80 Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada not translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Manuals 5 Changing de faults 15289 A Notation manual tables 2176 B Cheat sheet 252 C GNU Free Documentation License 3724 LilyPond Application Usage Till Paala partially translated 85 90 partially up to date Till Paala translated up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala not translated up to date de es Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila not translated up to date fr Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude Gilles Thibault translated up to date Fr d ric Chiasson Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Valentin Vil lenave Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date John Mandereau Jean Charles Malahieude not translated up to date hu Federico Bruni not translated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date
56. users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version LilyPond 2 15 2 released June 18 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 2 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version LilyPond 2 14 1 released June 12 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 14 1 This fixes a few minor bugs in the stable version and should cause no problems We recommend that everybody upgrade to this version LilyPond 2 15 1 released June 11 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 1 This is the beginning of a new unstable development effort and adds the usual number of bugs It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version LilyPond 2 15 0 released June 7 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 0 This is the beginning of a new unstable development effort and adds the usual number of bugs It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version LilyPond 2 14 0 released June 6 2011 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2 14 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest quality sheet music possible It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts Many
57. users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate The LilyPond Report 24 Mar 5 2012 A new issue of the LilyPond Report is now available for reading topics include a request for fund ing an article about exciting new features in LilyPond grammar and an overview of LilyPond based web applications Come read LilyPond Report 24 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged LilyPond 2 15 32 released Mar 03 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 32 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 31 released Feb 29 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 31 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate Community 118 Release candidate 3 of 2 16 LilyPond 2 15 30 released Feb 17 2012 LilyPond 2 15 30 is out this is the third release candidate of the upcoming 2 16 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 14 2 a
58. 013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 11 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 10 released January 12 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 10 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 9 released December 15 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 9 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 8 released December 1 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 8 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and yo
59. 1 15 available February 1 2007 This release will stretch piano staves on a system by system basis and add a few glyphs a black harmonic note head and the slashed mirrored flat Bugfixes 2 10 Bugfixes 2 11 Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 14 and 2 11 14 available January 26 2007 This release has a rewrite of the line spanner code responsible for among other glissandi and text crescendos making them more flexible Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 13 and 2 11 13 available January 17 2007 This release fixes a few minor but irritating bugs In addition the 2 11 release has updates of the tutorial Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 12 available January 17 2007 This release fixes lots of bugs In particular the tie formatting has been further improved and memory usage has been improved enormously Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 12 available January 17 2007 This release mirrors 2 11 12 Notably it has the same memory usage improvements Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 11 available January 12 2007 This release mostly has the same fixes as 2 11 11 Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 11 available January 11 2007 This release has further fixes for popular bugs Timing of the MIDI output won t get
60. 1 9 1 is released Read the Changes page 68 and get it here August 25 2003 The LilyPond 1 9 development release is available Read the Changes page 68 and get it here August 25 2003 Mandrake 9 1 RPMS available get them here August 21 2003 LilyPond 1 8 1 was released Get it here or read the Changes page 68 August 18 2003 PlanetCCRMA eg RedHat 8 and 9 has been updated to 1 8 Download here August 7 2003 LilyPond 1 8 is released Read Changes page 68 and get it here August 7 2003 New website went live August 6 2003 Announced new website August 1 2003 LilyPond 1 7 30 released July 30 2003 Website present treatise about music engraving music printing software and LilyPond s unique faculties July 29 2003 1 7 29 release candidate 4 has been released Packages for Red Hat Debian Cygwin are available Attic Community 164 Announcements Announcements and news by version v2 16 v2 14 v2 12 v2 10 v2 8 v2 6 v2 4 v2 2 v2 0 v1 2 v1 0 v0 1 Descriptive list of changes by version v2 16 v2 14 v2 12 v2 10 v2 8 v2 6 v2 4 v2 2 v2 0 v1 8 v1 6 v1 4 v1 2 Thanks Thanks to developers contributors bug hunters and suggestions for v2 16 v2 14 v2 12 v2 10 v2 8 v2 6 v2 4 v2 2 v2 0 v1 8 Changelogs Developers changelogs by version v2 10 v2 3 v2 1 v1 5 1 v1 5 2 v1 4 v1 3 v1 2 v1 1 v1 0 v0 1 v0 0
61. 15 22 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 21 released Dec 6 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 21 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 20 released Nov 24 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 20 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 19 released Nov 18 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 19 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 18 released Nov 12 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 18 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is
62. 2 2005 Vertical spacing for page layout can now be tuned for each system individually feature sponsored by Trevor Baca and Nicolas Sceaux The slope of a stem tremolo may be set manually feature sponsored by Sven Axelsson There are a number of cleanups in the handling and representation of systems among other features and bug fixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 10 is out September 18 2005 This version adds proper support for laissez vibrer ties just enter laissezVibrer after a chord This feature was sponsored by Henrik Frisk It also has a couple of minor bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 9 is out September 5 2005 This is mainly a bugfix release Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Community 148 Traduction fran aise du site September 03 2005 Gr ce l quipe des traducteurs de nombreuses pages du site sont maintenant disponibles en francais notamment l essai sur la gravure musicale LilyPond 2 7 8 is out August 29 2005 This release has support for right to left text formatting in markup commands sponsored by Aaron Mehl In addition it fixes a great number of bugs among others support for writing MIDI files Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Article in De Standaard August 20 2005 The Belgian newspaper De Standaard investigates what drives Free Software authors in an article titled Delen van KENNIS zonder W
63. 2 2010 The LilyPond Report is back with its two grumpy and fluffy editors This issue contains a review of an online notation editor using lilypond along with the regular release news snippet of the report news from the frog pond and the bug report of the report Come read LilyPond Report 20 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged LilyPond 2 13 31 released Aug 24 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 31 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond 2 13 30 released Aug 13 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 30 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond Report 19 Aug 9 2010 The LilyPond Report is back with its two grumpy and fluffy editors This issue contains some conference news along with the regular release news snippet of the report news from the frog pond and the bug report of the report Come read LilyPond Report 19 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged Community 129 LilyPond 2 13 29 released Aug 4 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 29 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended
64. 2004 LilyPond 2 2 4 was released It is mainly a bug fix release Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog June 25 2004 LilyPond 2 3 5 has numerous small bugfixes and cleanups and features more work in the experimental GNOME output module Adventurous hackers can check the instructions at scm output gnome scm and try to run buildscripts guile gnome sh to see what the fuss is all about Carl Sorensen also provided us with more patches to the fret diagram output Check out the ChangeLog and Old downloads page 55 June 20 2004 LilyPond 2 2 3 has a turkish translation and fixes a few minor bugs that were reported over the past month Check out the ChangeLog for a full description and Old downloads page 55 Community 157 June 13 2004 LilyPond 2 3 4 further improves the output backends As a result manual page breaks multiple output formats and putting Nscore into markups now works Check out the ChangeLog and Old downloads page 55 May 31 2004 LilyPond 2 3 3 has many internal changes relating to the output backend PostScript and page layout In addition it contains a few bugfixes for recently reported problems Check out the ChangeLog and Old downloads page 55 May 31 2004 LilyPond 2 2 2 is out It has a number of small bugfixes so upgrade if any of these errors concern you Check out the ChangeLog or head straight to the Old downloads page 55 May 26 2004 LilyPond 2 3 2 is ou
65. 25 2008 Release 2 11 41 is available It has a few bugfixes updated program messages in French German Spanish and Vietnamese and updates to the MusicXML converter Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 37 available January 3 2008 Release 2 11 37 is available It has a few bugfixes and documentation changes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 36 available December 13 2007 Release 2 11 36 is now available It has many bugfixes updates for MusicXML import and it includes major documentation changes from Grand Documentation Project Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 33 and 2 11 33 available September 20 2007 Release 2 11 33 is now available Bugfixes 2 10 Bugfixes 2 11 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 32 available September 2 2007 Release 2 11 32 is now available Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 31 available August 31 2007 Release 2 11 31 is now available It has more bugfixes updates for MusicXML import and lots of updates for the translations Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 30 available August 20 2007 Release 2 11 30 is now available It has various bugfixes among others in the new spacing code MusicXML import and lots of updates for the translations Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 29 and 2 11 29 available August 11 2007 Release 2 11 29 is now available 2 10 29 has a few small fixes 2 11 29 has sever
66. 29 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 7 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version LilyPond 2 15 6 released July 26 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 6 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version LilyPond 2 14 2 released July 25 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 14 2 This fixes a few minor bugs in the stable version and should cause no problems We recommend that everybody upgrade to this version LilyPond 2 15 5 released July 12 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 5 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version LilyPond 2 15 4 released July 4 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 4 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Community 122 LilyPond 2 15 3 released June 27 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 3 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal
67. 5 March 14 2005 LilyPond 2 5 15 is out This release has clean ups in the SVG output and now uses the LilyPond number font for time signatures It is now possible to add text before and after music This can be used to add verses after a music Take a look at the Changes page 68 file and Old downloads page 55 March 7 2005 LilyPond 2 5 14 is out It is now possible and in fact encouraged to build LilyPond either without the Kpathsea TeX library or with the Kpathsea dynamically loaded but only for the btex backend This means that packages do not have to depend on TeX anymore With this the Windows download size will go down significantly Take a look at the Changes page 68 file and download Old downloads page 55 March 7 2005 LilyPond 2 4 5 is out This release backports the tieWaitForNote feature and has support for tetex 3 0 Old downloads page 55 February 28 2005 LilyPond 2 5 13 is available for Fedora Core 3 You need to install ESP Ghostscript 8 15rc3 Unfortunately this version of Ghostscript lacks the IJS dynamic library which means that it will conflict with the gimp print package You may install it with nodeps Use at your own risk February 28 2005 LilyPond 2 5 13 is out This release has Point and click support for PDF output You can read more about it here Take a look at the Changes page 68 file and download Old downloads page 55 February 26 2005 The LilyPond Snippet Repos
68. 6 0 released August 24 2012 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2 16 0 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest quality sheet music possible It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous main stable version A few major improvements are e Support for kievan square notation e User and programming interfaces have greatly improved e Music functions have become quite more versatile A full list of new features is given in http lilypond org doc v2 16 Documentation changes index html Happy music typesetting LilyPond 2 16 was brought to you by Main development team Bertrand Bordage Trevor Daniels Colin Hall Phil Holmes Ian Hulin Reinhold Kainhofer David Kastrup Jonathan Kulp Werner Lemberg John Mandereau Patrick McCarty Joe Nee man Han Wen Nienhuys Jan Nieuwenhuizen Graham Percival Mark Polesky Neil Puttock Mike Solomon Carl Sorensen Francisco Vila Valentin Villenave Jan Warchot Programming contributors Aleksandr Andreev Sven Axelsson Peter Chubb Karin Hoethker Marc Hohl David Nalesnik Justin Ohmie Benk P l Julien Rioux Patrick Schmidt Adam Spiers Heikki Tau rainen Piers Titus van der Torren Jan Peter Voigt Janek Warchol Documentation contributors James Lowe Pavel Roskin Alberto Simoes Stefan Weil Bug squad Colin Campbell Eluze P
69. 6 Documentation FDL Documentation license The documentation for GNU LilyPond is published under the GNU Free Documentation License An introduction to this license and our reasons for choosing it is given in Freedom page 22 GNU Free Documentation License 1 1 0 Version 1 3 3 November 2008 Copyright 2000 2001 2002 2007 2008 Free Software Foundation Inc http fsf org Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed PREAMBLE The purpose of this License is to make a manual textbook or other functional and useful document free in the sense of freedom to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it with or without modifying it either commercially or noncommercially Secondarily this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others This License is a kind of copyleft which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense It complements the GNU General Public License which is a copyleft license designed for free software We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software because free software needs free documentation a free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the software does But this License is not limited to sof
70. 8 e Section Extending in Extending fancy tweaks Extending page 69 e Section Internals in Internals Reference tweaks reference Internals page 69 Other material e All page 86 previous stable versions and current as a compressed archive e Translated page 69 translation status for non English readers e LilyPond Snippet Repository user created examples hints and tips e Video Tutorials Ben Lemon a LilyPond user has created a range of video tutorials on his blog and which are aimed at new users e Development page 100 manuals for the unstable version e FDL page 87 these manuals are published under the GNU Free Documentation License Manual formats The LilyPond manuals generally come in three formats split HTML big HTML and PDF Split HTML is good for reading online Big HTML and some of these can be very big contains the whole manual in a single page PDF is available for downloading and using offline To get to these 3 formats follow the links that read details of and then the manual name Learning Learning manual This book explains how to begin learning LilyPond as well as explaining some key concepts in easy terms You should read these chapters in a linear fashion There is a paragraph See also at the end of each section which contains cross references to other sections you should not follow these cross references at first reading When you have read Manuals 66 all of the man
71. 8 released May 11 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 18 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 17 released April 27 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 17 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 16 released April 13 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 16 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 15 released March 30 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 15 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be
72. David Pounder Patrick Schmidt Bug squad James E Bailey Colin Campbell Phil Holmes Urs Liska Ralph Palmer Kieren MacMillan Dmytro O Redchuk Binaries support contributors Christian Hitz Translation contributors Federico Bruni D nes Harmath Jean Charles Malahieude Tineke de Munnik Till Paala Ralf Wildenhues Yoshiki Sawada Release candidate 7 of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 63 released May 30 2011 LilyPond 2 13 63 is out this is the seventh release candidate of the upcoming 2 14 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 14 0 release will be on June 6 2011 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 13 62 released May 24 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 62 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes Please note that this is not the next release candidate due to a few remaining Critical bugs LilyPond 2 13 61 released May 1 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 61 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes Please note that this is not the next release candidate due to a few remaining Critical bugs LilyPond 2 13 60 released April 16 2011 We are happ
73. December 16 2003 LilyPond 2 1 1 released This release wraps together all the small fixes made during Han Wen s absence See the Changes page 68 and download here October 11 2003 LilyPond 2 1 0 released See the Changes page 68 and download here October 11 2003 LilyPond 2 0 1 binaries for Mandrake 9 1 available from here thanks to Heikki Junes October 9 2003 LilyPond 2 0 1 binaries for Slackware 9 available from here thanks to Ricardo Hoffman October 5 2003 LilyPond 2 0 1 binaries are available for Macos X many thanks to Matthias Neeracher Old downloads page 55 Community 162 October 4 2003 LilyPond 2 0 1 binaries are available for Windows Cygwin version 1 5 Old downloads page 55 Thanks to Bertalan Fodor our new Cygwin maintainer September 29 2003 LilyPond 2 0 1 is released It contains minor bugfixes See the Changes page 68 or download here directly September 27 2003 PlanetCCRMA has been updated to include LilyPond 2 0 Go here to download Thanks to Fernando Pablo Lopez Lezcano September 24 2003 LilyPond 2 0 0 is released The focus of this release is cleanups of the syntax entering music is now much easier and more efficient Read the announcement here or go to the download page directly September 24 2003 LilyPond 1 9 10 is released This is the final LilyPond 2 0 release candidate Check the Changes page 68 and download here September 23 2003 LilyPond 1 9 9 is
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75. INSTBEJAG Non profit sharing of knowlegde using LilyPond as an example l his marks LilyPond s first appearance in mainstream printed press LilyPond 2 7 7 is out August 22 2005 This release has a rewriting of tie formatting which was sponsored by Bertalan Fodor Jay Hamil ton Kieren MacMillan Steve Doonan Trevor Baca and Vicente Solsona Dell Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 6 is out August 19 2005 This release adds support for numbered percent repeats a feature sponsored by Yoshinobu Ishizaki It also has bugfixes for clashes between slurs and symbols like fingers dynamic signs Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 5 is out August 16 2005 Lily 2 7 5 has a large number of bugfixes among others in slur formatting spacing rest collisions and tuplet bracket formatting Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 4 is out August 7 2005 LilyPond 2 7 4 has support for proportional notation where the space for a note is proportional to the time it takes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 6 3 is out August 4 2005 This release fixes a memory corruption bug that was triggered by override ing Beam settings Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 6 2 is out August 2 2005 This release has a few bugfixes among them the autopackage will run in more platforms LilyPond will be much quicker for large lilypond book documents a
76. Information please consult the documentation for those programs if you have any problems Download Step 1 Create your 1y file Double click the LilyPond app an example file will open k Untitled Welcome to LilyPond Congratulations LilyPond has been installed successfully Now to take it for the first test run 1 Save this file 2 Select Compile Typeset file from the menu The file is processed and 3 The POF viewer will pop up Click ome of the noteheads That s it For more information visit http lilypond org x header title A scale in LilyPond relative cdefgabc wersion 2 14 0 3X necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond versions 44 Download From the menus along the top left of your screen select File gt Save Open Recent Close Save As EEJ Revert Page Setup Print Choose a name for your file for example test ly z Select Comile Typeset file from the menu The fila ia searecced and 45 Download 46 Step 2 Compile with LilyPad From the same menus select Compile gt Typeset Sulit Font Update synta Typeset file SR N A new window will open showing a progress log of the compilation of the file you have just saved Processing Users james Desktop test ly Parsing Interpreting music Preprocessing graphical objects Solving 1 page breaking chunks 1 1 pages Drawing systems
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78. Lily Pond The music typesetter General Information The LilyPond development team Copyright 2009 2012 by the authors This file documents the LilyPond website Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License For LilyPond version 2 18 2 LilyPond music notation for everyone What is LilyPond LilyPond is music engraving program devoted to producing the highest quality sheet mu sic possible It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts LilyPond is free software and part of the GNU Project Read more in our Introduction page 5 Lilypond 2 18 2 released March 23 2014 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2 18 2 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest quality sheet music possible It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts This version provides a number of updates to 2 18 0 including updated manuals We recom mend all users to upgrade to this version LilyPond production named BEST EDITION 2014 March 11 2014 We are thrilled to announce that the new edition of the songs of Oskar Fried 1871 1941 published recently
79. LilyPond icon LilyPond automatically produces a PDF file from the musical scale below To print or view the result click on the newly produced file called test pdf If you see a piece of music with a scale LilyPond is working properly Next you ll want to get started on your own scores To do this you ll need to learn about using LilyPond LilyPond s interface is text based rather than graphical Please visit the help page at http lilypond org introduction html This will 50 Download ol From the menus that appear along the top of the example file select File gt Save as Do not use the File gt Save for the example file as this will not work until you have given it a valid LilyPond file name Welcome to LilyPond ly LilyPad al Edit Search Help New Ctrl M Open Ctr O Save Ctrl 5 Print Ctrl P Page Setup the first test run Printer Setup lyPond has been installed successfully Pond file on your desktop with the name test ly Exit 2 Pick it up from the desktop with your mouse pointer drag and drop it onto the LilyPond icon LilyPond automatically produces a PDF file from the musical scale below To print or view the result click on the newly produced file called test pdf If you see a piece of music with a scale LilyPond is working properly Next you ll want to get started on your own scores To do this you ll need to learn about using LilyPond LilyPo
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83. Solomon Carl Sorensen Clean up various compilation warnings Clean up compiler warnings static code analysis and valgrind warnings Automatic code analy sis tools warnings in g and clang and analysis tools like valgrind memory leak detection and callgrind code profilers provide valuable information about possible flaws in C code Clean ing these warnings would allow us to automatically reject any patch which introduced extra warnings Difficulty medium Requirements C Mentor s Joe Neeman Reinhold Kainhofer Community 104 Authors Current Development Team Bertrand Bordage bordage bertrand gmail com Core developer font designer Trevor Daniels t daniels treda co uk Assistant documentation editor Colin Hall Bug meister Phil Holmes mail philholmes net http www philholmes net Build unentangler Bug squad member Ian Hulin Core developer Reinhold Kainhofer reinhold kainhofer com http reinhold kainhofer com Core developer Music2xml wrangler David Kastrup dak gnu org hard core developer user and programming interfaces bug squashing and swamp drainage Jonathan Kulp Assistant documentation editor Werner Lemberg wlO0gnu org Fonts bug squasher John Mandereau john mandereau free fr Translations Patrick McCarty SVG guru bug squad member bug squasher text handling Joe Neeman Core developer Han Wen Nienhuys hanwenOxs4all nl http www xs4all nl hanwen Main author Jan Nieuwenhuizen ja
84. a stable LilyPond version so any snippet which demonstrates new features of a development version must be added separately These are stored in Documentation snippets new in the LilyPond source tree The list of snippets for each subsection of the Notation are also linked from the See also portion Read it e Snippets split HTML the manual is split between many HTML pages small download for each page e Snippets big HTML read this manual as one huge HTML page large single download 1 5 MB e snippets pdf download as a PDF file large single download 12 5 MB FAQ Manuals 68 Introductory questions Where are the graphical canvas menus and toolbars LilyPond requires you to write music as text Please read about our Text input page 27 There s a lot of documentation Do I need to read it You need to read the Learning page 65 As for the rest of documentation you only need to read the sections which discuss the notation that you wish to create That s still a lot of reading Is it worth it Please decide for yourself the reasons why you might want to use LilyPond are given in the Introduction page 5 Usage questions Something isn t working How do I fix it This is explained in Section Troubleshooting in Application Usage Why do you change the syntax This is explained in Section Why does the syntax change in Application Usage Web Web This manual supplies gen
85. al bugfixes among others in the new spacing code and lots of updates for the translations Bugfixes 2 10 Bugfixes 2 11 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 28 for FreeBSD x86_64 August 10 2007 Release 2 11 28 is now available as a binary installer for FreeBSD x86 64 Download the installer and do sh lilypond 2 11 28 1 freebsd 64 sh in a command window LilyPond 2 11 28 available July 25 2007 Release 2 11 28 has several updates to the manual and its translations an plethora of bugfixes and a complete cleanup of the spacing engine code Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 Community 137 LilyPond 2 11 26 available June 8 2007 Release 2 11 26 supports page markers eg for use in tables of contents In addition it fixes a number of bugs Enjoy Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 25 and 2 11 25 available May 20 2007 Release 2 11 25 has support for toplevel page breaking commands and page breaking as a whole has been sped up significantly Enjoy Bugfixes 2 10 Bugfixes 2 11 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 23 and 2 11 23 available May 1 2007 This has lots of bugfixes Bugfixes 2 10 Bugfixes 2 11 Old downloads page 55 bersetzung der Dokumentation 10 April 2007 Die Kapitel 1 5 der Abschnitt f r Anf nger des LilyPond Benutzerhandbuchs sind auf deutsch bersetzt sie sind erh ltlich f r die Changes page 68 online und Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 22 availabl
86. ance get an extra penalty This fixes a lot of difficult slurring cases See input regression new slur for some examples Please consider this release as a 3 0 pre release so try to find as many bugs as possible A report including a small ly example can be filed at bug lilypond gnu org In this case a bug is defined as something that the current 2 3 does worse than the latest 2 2 release We want to be sure that no output will get uglier by upgrading to 3 0 so that once 3 0 is out nothing will hold users back in switching Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog September 10 2004 LilyPond 2 3 15 was released It fixes for some gaffes with the new vertical spacing engine has lots of documentation updates and has support for landscape output in the direct postscript Community 155 output Also the types of events quoted with quote can now be tuned with quotedEvent Types By default only notes and rests end up in quotes Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog September 6 2004 LilyPond 2 3 14 was released and has exciting features LilyPond will try to keep staves at the same distances across a page but it will stretch distances to prevent collisions key signature cancellations are now printed before the bar line different voices that all use Nquote can now refer to each other Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog August 29 2004
87. anges in the ChangeLog August 1 2004 LilyPond 2 3 10 is out This release has a major clean up of the input test directory Many examples have been moved to the regression test or manual and the superfluous or outdated ones have been removed The directory has gone from 146 examples to 72 examples That means that we re halfway cleaning it out Incidentally the manual has gone from 200 to 220 pages New features e hunning trills now have their own spanner and event l hey are started and stopped with startTrillSpan and stopTrillSpan e There is a new markup command postscript that takes a string that is dumped as ver batim PostScript Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog Community 156 July 30 2004 LilyPond 2 3 9 is out The important change is that lilypond now once again directly runs the binary The old wrapper script has been renamed to lilypond latex py and should only be used for legacy projects The recommended route is either using lilypond directly with Nbook you can have multiple movements within one document or to run lilypond book with a LaTeX wrapper file This release also fixes a bunch of small errors I now consider LilyPond feature complete for a 3 0 release Next on the TODO list is updating the manual and after that s done we can release 3 0 The projected date for this to happen is in about a month Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog
88. are still some Critical problems with this release the vertical spacing is suspicious in two cases and lilypond can crash with some odd input If you decide to test 2 13 37 do not be surprised to discover problems just send us polite Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 13 36 released Oct 19 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 36 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only Please note that this is not the third alpha test Due to a number of untested changes to our build process we cannot be at all confident about the quality of this release The LilyPond Report 21 Oct 3 2010 The LilyPond Report is back with its two grumpy and fluffy editors This issue mainly deals with microtonal notation in LilyPond but does also include a how to about running LilyPond from an USB key not to forget the regular release news the bug report of the Report and some news from the frog pond Come read LilyPond Report 21 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged Community 128 Alpha test two of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 35 released Sep 29 2010 LilyPond 2 13 35 is out this is the second alpha test of the upcoming 2 14 stable release Users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 Th
89. at lilypond outscores all other notation programs easily concerning speed ease of use and look a Darius Blasband composer Brussels Belgium after the first orchestra rehearsal I got numerous compliments about the quality of the scores Even more importantly while LilyPond provides numerous hacks to improve the way its scores look what the orchestra got from me is basically the raw untouched output Kieren MacMillan composer Toronto Canada thanks and kudos to the development team for their incredible work I ve never seen anything approaching the output that I get from LilyPond I m totally confident that my music publishing needs will be fulfilled beyond my expectations using this great application basically untweaked LilyPond output looks better than most recent professional publications I ve compared it to q v just about any Warner Bros score and even many of the most recent by the old houses Beat that Finale Sibelius Igor whatever Chris Cannam lead programmer of the RoseGarden project LilyPond is obviously the zillion ton gorilla of great music typesetting Chris Snyder Adoro Music Publishing The way that music is entered for LilyPond causes me to think in a more musical way there have been times when I ve been stumped as to how to tell Lily to engrave something only to realize that even if I did get it exactly as the composer wanted
90. ate Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude Jean Charles Malahieude John Man dereau translated up to date Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude Jean Charles Malahieude John Man dereau translated up to date Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date 76 Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Manuals 1 5 Simultane ous notes 2821 1 6 Staff nota tion 2476 1 7 Editorial annotations 954 1 8 Text 2816 Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Fr d ric Chiasson Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude Jean Charles Malahieude John Man dereau translated up to date Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude John Man dereau translated up to date Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Jean Charles Malahieude Valenti
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92. back to the community e Work experience contributing to free software projects is a great way to practice program ming documentation writing documentation translation or design This experience has helped some developers gain job offers or scholarships Where now Still not convinced Read our extensive essay about our engraving philosophy in Background page 22 If you ve already decided to try LilyPond first read about our Text input page 27 Background Introduction 23 Background essay We have an extensive essay describing computational aesthetics the art of creating beauty with a computer If you just want a quick introduction to LilyPond the essay might be too much material to read If you would like to read it now please progress to Essay page 66 Where now Still not convinced Read about some of our users Productions page 23 and sheet music If you ve already decided to try LilyPond first read about our Text input page 27 Productions Concerts LilyPond engravings have been used for performances around the world Some highlights e Aur lien Bello has re orchestrated Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner to a 100 minute version for children It has been written for a standard symphony orchestra but with a reduced cast of singers and will be performed by the Radio Sinfonieorchester Berlin on the 5th and 6th April 2014 in the Atze Musiktheater Berlin The Conductor is Heiko Matthias Fors
93. branch version 2 0 2 was released today It contains a couple of minor bugfixes Old downloads page 55 January 6 2004 LilyPond 2 1 7 continues to improve the layout of the Schubert test piece this release focuses on dot placement and multi measure rests centering More information in the Changes page 68 and download here January 4 2004 LilyPond 2 1 6 continues to improve the layout of lyrics More information in the release notes and download here January 2 2004 In LilyPond 2 1 5 the lyric alignment is completely revamped and now matches my Edition Peters version of the Schubert song S ngers Morgen More information in the Changes page 68 and download here December 30 2003 LilyPond 2 1 4 is released Font shapes and line thickness are now truly different for different staff sizes thus lending an engraved look to scores printed in smaller type too See the Changes page 68 and download here December 23 2003 LilyPond 2 1 3 released Interpreting and formatting is now done while parsing the file This allows for Scheme manipulation of music and could be used to implement experimental Mu sicXML output volunteers to implement this are welcome See the Changes page 68 and download here December 17 2003 LilyPond 2 1 2 released This release has a new mechanism for setting font sizes which combines different font design sizes and continuous font scaling See the Changes page 68 and download here
94. candidate due to a few remaining Critical bugs LilyPond 2 13 50 released Feb 13 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 50 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes Please note that this is not the third release candidate Due to a number of untested changes to our build process we cannot be at all confident about the quality of this release New Chinese and Czech translations of the web page Feb 11 2011 Two new languages are added to our web page Chinese by Ben Luo and Czech by Pavel Fric It is a work in progress but they are fully functional That makes ten languages to choose from Release candidate 2 of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 49 released Feb 9 2011 LilyPond 2 13 49 is out this is the second release candidate of the upcoming 2 14 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 14 0 release will be on Feb 23 2011 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 13 48 released Feb 5 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 48 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond 2 13 47 release
95. confused by tuplets and grace notes anymore Some fat has also been trimmed of the skyline code performance Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 10 available January 8 2007 LilyPond 2 11 10 has further review of the test suite performance and code coverage This brought to light several problems that were fixed Notably 2 11 10 fixes lots of regressions in optical correction spacing and MIDI dynamics Also this version is 20 to 50 faster than previous 2 11 releases Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 10 available January 8 2007 This release fixes several popular bugs among others MIDI files that go silent after de crescendi and tuplets problems with quoting and part combining Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 9 and 2 10 9 available January 3 2007 This release has a couple of bugfixes and in 2 11 9 further improvements in the regression test suite Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Community 139 LilyPond 2 11 8 and 2 10 8 available January 3 2007 New Improved With even more bugfixes Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 lilypond org auf deutsch 31 Dezember 2006 Die LilyPond Webseiten sind jetzt auch auf deutsch bersetzt lilypond org en espanol December 29 2006 i Ya est disponible la versi n en espanol del sitio web de LilyPond LilyP
96. cro musical publishing house whose goal is to promote a new form of musical economy closer to the musicians and music lovers If you are aware of any other concerts or sheet music which could be listed here please let us know by following the instructions on Bug reports page 97 Where now Still not convinced Read some of our users Reviews page 24 If you ve already decided to try LilyPond first read about our Text input page 27 Reviews Published articles e April 2011 Linux Magazine publishes an article titled Projects on the Move It is an introductory article on MuseScore LilyPond and Chordii Author Carla Schroder states LilyPond is driven from the command line but don t let the lack of a GUI scare you away LilyPond is user friendly and easy to learn and provides a hands on example e May 2010 Peter Kirn on the Create Digital Music website publishes a LilyPond review He takes a balanced view on usage praises LilyPond s high quality notation and suggests to try it out e September 2009 The German LinuxUser magazine wrote an article about LilyPond e August 2009 Ann Drinan on the Polyphonic org website presents comments by two orchestra librarians who talk about using software to maintain their libraries e June 2009 In an article published in the French National Conservatory Parent Association s yearly magazine French composer and LilyPond contributor Valentin Villenave explains how Free lice
97. d April 3 2011 LilyPond 2 13 57 is out this is the fifth release candidate of the upcoming 2 14 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 14 0 release will be on April 10 2011 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 Release candidate 4 of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 56 released Mar 29 2011 LilyPond 2 13 56 is out this is the fourth release candidate of the upcoming 2 14 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 14 0 release will be on April 5 2011 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 13 55 released Mar 22 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 55 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes Please note that this is not the fourth release candidate due to a few remaining Critical bugs Release candidate 3 withdrawn Mar 15 2011 We have discovered a regression since 2 12 3 so lilypond 2 13 54 is no longer a candidate for the 2 14 0
98. d Colin Campbell Eluze Marc Hohl Phil Holmes Marek Klein Ralph Palmer Support Colin Campbell Eluze Marc Hohl Marek Klein Kieren MacMillan Urs Liska Ralph Palmer Translation Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel Felipe Castro Pavel Fric Jean Charles Malahieude Till Paala Yoshiki Sawada Previous Contributors Programming Erlend Aasland Maximilian Albert Aleksandr Andreev Guido Amoruso Sven Axelsson Kristof Bastiaensen Pal Benk Fr d ric Bron Juliusz Chroboczek Peter Chubb Angelo Contardi Vicente Solsona Della Hajo Dezelski Michael Welsh Duggan David Feuer Bertalan Fodor Richard Gay Mathieu Giraud Lisa Opus Goldstein Yuval Harel Andrew Hawryluk Christian Hitz Karin Hoethker Marc Hohl Bernard Hurley Yoshinobu Ishizaki Chris Jackson David Jedlinsky Heikki Junes Michael K ppler Marek Klein Michael Krause Jean Baptiste Lamy Jonatan Liljedahl Peter Lutek Kieren MacMillan Hendrik Maryns Thomas Morgan David Nalesnik Matthias Neeracher Keith OHara Justin Ohmie Tatsuya Ono Benk P l Ben jamin Peterson Guy Gascoigne Piggford Henning Hraban Ramm Nathan Reed Julien Rioux Stan Sanderson Andreas Scherer Johannes Schindelin Patrick Schmidt Boris Shingarov Kim Shrier Edward Sanford Sutton Adam Spiers David Svoboda Heikki Taurainen Piers Titus van der Torren Owen Tuz Sebastiano Vigna Jan Peter Voigt Arno Waschk John Williams Andrew Wilson Milan Zamazal Rune Zedeler Rodolfo Zit
99. d Jan 28 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 47 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only Release candidate 1 withdrawn Jan 13 2011 We have discovered a regression since 2 12 3 so lilypond 2 13 46 is no longer a candidate for the 2 14 0 release However please continue testing it we would like to discover and fix any Community 126 more regressions as soon as possible If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 Release candidate 1 of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 46 released Jan 12 2011 LilyPond 2 13 46 is out this is the first release candidate of the upcoming 2 14 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 14 0 release will be on 26 Jan 2011 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 13 45 released Jan 3 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 45 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only Beta test three of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 44 released Dec 25 2010
100. d BEST EDITION 2014 March 11 2014 We are thrilled to announce that the new edition of the songs of Oskar Fried 1871 1941 published recently by our fellow contributors Urs Liska and Janek Warchot 1 will receive the Musikeditionspreis BEST EDITION 2014 of the German Music Publishers Association 2 The ceremony will take place in a few days at the Frankfurt Musikmesse 3 We congratulate Janek and Urs for gaining such public recognition of typographical and editorial excellence of their work We are also delighted to inform you that they intend to make their work available under a Free license as soon as the publisher expenses are covered Please support this initiative by buying the printed volume through the publisher 4 or by pledging a contribution at the Indiegogo campaign 5 1 http lilypondblog org category fried songs 2 http www best edition de 3 https musik messefrankfurt com frankfurt en besucher events awards best edition html 4 http www sound rel de 5 http igg me at free fried LilyPond 2 19 3 released March 2 2014 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 19 3 This release includes a number of enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 18 version Lilypond 2 18 0 released Decembe
101. d you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version This update cures the issue with the Windows version crashing with a problem with posi tioning text LilyPond 2 17 21 released June 30 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 21 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 20 released June 9 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 20 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version Community 112 LilyPond 2 17 19 released May 26 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 19 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 1
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103. e April 10 2007 This release has updates of the dot collision code Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 21 available March 24 2007 This release has some documentation updates Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Traduction de la documentation en frangais 25 f vrier 2007 Les chapitres 1 4 et 6 du manuel de l utilisateur sont d sormais traduits et disponibles en ligne version 2 10 version 2 11 Les traductions sont galement incluses dans la documentation t l chargeable LilyPond 2 10 20 and 2 11 20 available February 25 2007 This release fixes many bugs Bugfixes 2 10 Bugfixes 2 11 Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 19 and 2 11 19 available February 18 2007 This release fixes many bugs Bugfixes 2 10 Bugfixes 2 11 Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 18 available February 12 2007 This release fixes still more bugs and included singing support through festival contributed by Milan Zamazal Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 17 available February 9 2007 This release fixes still more bugs Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 16 and 2 11 16 available February 4 2007 This release fixes many bugs Bugfixes 2 10 Bugfixes 2 11 Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Community 138 LilyPond 2 10 15 and 2 1
104. e 55 LilyPond 2 11 57 available August 27 2008 LilyPond 2 11 57 is out This release adds support for harp pedal diagrams contributed by Reinhold Kainhofer and some changes in markup command names have been made Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 56 available August 17 2008 LilyPond 2 11 56 is out This release features transposable fret diagrams contributed by Carl Sorensen Translations status pages are now available from the documentation start page Two predefined commands pointAndClickOn pointAndClickOff have also been added Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Community 134 LilyPond 2 11 55 available August 6 2008 LilyPond 2 11 55 is out This release fixes several bugs and for octavation brackets set octavation has been replaced by a more user friendly command Nottava Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 54 available July 30 2008 LilyPond 2 11 54 is out This release fixes a bug in tie formatting following a line break and changes the behavior of short indent so that short instrument names are no longer indented in the margin Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 53 available July 23 2008 LilyPond 2 11 53 is out This release fixes a lot of bugs Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 52 available July 14 2008 Release 2 11 52 fixes wrong offset of a bar number when it follows a breath mark and syntax changes made in recent
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106. ease fixes a number of minor bugs and some problems with the conversion scripts Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog October 29 2004 2 3 25 is the final release candidate for LilyPond 2 4 Werner has been overhauling the TeX macros and lilypond book In addition this release contains an important fix for raggedbottom page layout Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog October 27 2004 LilyPond 2 3 24 is a further polished 2 4 release candidate This release has more improvements by Werner for the TeX backend and a bunch of other small fixes Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog Community 154 October 24 2004 LilyPond 2 3 23 has bugfixes in the documentation lilypond book and preview output This release can be considered as a release candidate for LilyPond 2 4 Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog October 10 2004 LilyPond 2 3 22 fixes a bunch more bugs to make 2 4 a really stable release In addition it renames the paper block to layout The bookpaper block is now called paper Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog October 09 2004 LilyPond 2 3 21 is out It is a serious release candidate for the next stable release LilyPond This version has a cleanup and some small formatting improvements of the slur code Old downloads page 55 and check out the chang
107. ellini Font Tom Cato Amundsen Marc Hohl Chris Jackson Alexander Kobel Keith OHara Carsten Steger Arno Waschk Rune Zedeler Documentation Erlend Aasland Trevor Ba a Alard de Boer Colin Campbell Jay Hamilton Joseph Harfouch Andrew Hawryluk Cameron Horsburgh Geoff Horton Heikki Junes Kurtis Kroon James Lowe Dave Luttinen Kieren MacMillan Christian Mondrup Mike Moral Eyolf strem Ralph Palmer Frangois Pinard David Pounder Michael Rasmussen Till Rettig Pavel Roskin Patrick Schmidt Alberto Simoes Anh Hai Trinh Eduardo Vieira Stefan Weil Rune Zedeler Support Colin Campbell Anthony Fok Christian Hitz Phil Holmes Chris Jackson Heikki Junes David Svoboda Translation Alard de Boer Federico Bruni Abel Cheung Fr d ric Chiasson Simon Dahlbacka Orm Finnen dahl David Gonz lez Nicolas Grandclaude D nes Harmath Damien Heurtebise Bjoern Jacke Community 106 Matthieu Jacquot Neil Jerram Heikki Junes Nicolas Klutchnikoff Jean Charles Malahieude Adrian Mariano Christian Mondrup Tineke de Munnik Steven Michael Murphy Till Paala Frangois Pinard Gauvain Pocentek Til Rettig Ludovic Sardain Yoshiki Sawada Thomas Scharkowski Clytie Siddall August S Sigov Roland Stigge Risto V r niemi Andrea Valle Ralf Wildenhues Olcay Yildirim Acknowledgements Acknowledgements GNU GNU Savannah http savannah gnu org Source code and mailing lists Webdev nl http www webdev nl lilypond
108. ement and some bugs in tuplet tie and accidental formatting This release contains rudimentary work on a new part combiner Old downloads page 55 January 19 2004 LilyPond 2 1 12 fixes many bugs and improves formatting of ottava brackets More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 January 18 2004 LilyPond 2 1 11 is now also available for Windows For downloading go here January 17 2004 In 2 1 11 the mechanism for setting staff size and page is much simplified In addition there are improvements in the notehead shape and there is balloon help More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 January 16 2004 LilyPond 2 1 10 has a load of bugfixes and a shorter syntax for octave checks More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 January 13 2004 LilyPond 2 1 9 has a new mechanism for adding lyrics to melodies It is now possible to have different melismatic variations for each stanza More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 January 9 2004 LilyPond 2 1 8 has an important new feature it is now possible to use property to tune the appearance of spanning objects like StaffSymbol and SystemStartBrace In addition contexts may be modified with Nremove and Nconsists for individual music expressions More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Community 161 January 7 2004 An update to the stable
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110. eral information about LilyPond It also contains information about various community forums bug reporting and development Read it Latest manual undefined Top page undefined Web manual in 2 19 3 e Web split HTML the manual is split between many HTML pages small download for each page e Web big HTML read this manual as one huge HTML page large single download 2 5 MB e web pdf download as a PDF file large single download 3 5 MB Changes Changes This is summary of important changes and new features in LilyPond since the previous stable version Read it e Changes split HTML the manual is split between many HTML pages small download for each page Manuals 69 e Changes big HTML read this manual as one huge HTML page large single download 90 KB e changes pdf download as a PDF file large single download 80 KB Extending Extending LilyPond This manual explains how to write extensions to LilyPond Read it e Extending split HTML the manual is split between many HTML pages small download for each page e Extending big HTML read this manual as one huge HTML page large single download 300 KB e extending pdf download as a PDF file large single download 500 KB Internals Internals reference This is a set of heavily cross linked pages which document the nitty gritty details of each and every LilyPond class object and fu
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112. es in the ChangeLog October 02 2004 LilyPond 2 3 20 was released It fixes the biggest problems with encoding and the TeX backend As a result latinl characters like the german SS show up correctly in the output once again Also it has the usual bugfixes and updates in the documentation Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog September 29 2004 The LilyPond development team will be present at the Free Software Bazaar of the NLUUG SANE 2004 conference today If you are in the neighborhood drop by for live contact with the Team or just a friendly chat Registration is not required to attend September 26 2004 LilyPond 2 3 19 is out It s mainly a bugfix release Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog September 20 2004 LilyPond 2 3 18 was released It has further improvements in the slur formatting and a small syntax change the mode changing commands chords lyrics etc have been renamed to chordmode lyricmode etc The command chords is an abbreviation for Nnew Chord Names Nchordmode drums lyrics chords figures function similarly Old down loads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog September 11 2004 LilyPond 2 3 16 was released It fixes a couple of annoying bugs and has an important addition in the slur formatter Slurs that pass note heads much closer than the average dist
113. f course there are also some musings on LilyPond triggered by the release of 2 16 0 and 2 17 0 occuring from that venue Community 109 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup whose work on LilyPond is solely paid for by financial contributions from other developer and users thank you and a report about experiences from a web based music typesetting service using LilyPond internally Come read LilyPond Report 28 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged LilyPond 2 16 1 released November 9 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 16 1 This has a number of updates to the previous stable version and should cause no problems We recommend that everybody upgrade to this version Lilypond 2 16 0 released August 24 2012 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2 16 1 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest quality sheet music possible It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous main stable version A few major improvements are e Support for kievan square notation e User and programming interfaces have greatly improved e Music functions have become quite more versatile A full list of new features is given in http lilypond org doc v2 16 Documentation changes index html Happy music typesetting LilyPond 2 16 was brought to you b
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116. f you are happy with the GUI instructions below then please ignore these instructions MacOS X on the command line The most convenient way to run lilypond scripts is by setting up helper scripts of your own 1 Create a directory to store these scripts mkdir p bin cd bin 2 Create a file called lilypond which contains bin bash exec DIR LilyPond app Contents Resources bin lilypond Note DIR will generally be Applications 3 Create similar files Lilypond book convert ly and any other scripts you wish to use by replacing the bin lilypond with bin convert 1y or other program name 4 Make the file executable chmod u x lilypond 5 Now add this directory to your path Modify or create a file called profile in your home directory such that it contains export PATH PATH bin This file should end with a blank line Invoking individual scripts The scripts such as lilypond book convert ly abc2ly and even lilypond itself are included inside the app file for MacOS X Scripts can also be run from the command line by invoking them directly path to LilyPond app Contents Resources bin lilypond The same is true for all other scripts in that directory such as lilypond book and convert ly Compiling a file Note These instructions assume that you are using the LilyPond appli cation If you are using any of the programs described in Section Easier editing in General
117. for TeX various bugfixes Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog November 12 2004 The LilyPond development is OPEN once again The first release of the 2 5 series has the following new Features Positioning of slurs can now be adjusted manually Grace notes are correctly quoted and formatted when using cue notes Cue notes can now be created with cueDuring VOICE NAME DIRECTION MUSIC Stemlets short stems over beamed rests have been added In addition Jan hacked together some highly experimental code where you can use the mouse to drag and drop objects in the f gnome backend These tweaks can be saved and are applied to the PS and TeX output as well Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog November 11 2004 LilyPond 2 4 2 is out This release fixes a number of security problems with safe and adds a lot of polishing fixes Old downloads page 55 November 4 2004 LilyPond 2 4 1 is out This release includes a number of small fixes that were made to 2 4 0 last week Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog October 31 2004 LilyPond 2 4 0 was just released This new stable version has support for page layout completely rewritten slur formatting and many other improvements Read about them in the Changes page 68 file Old downloads page 55 October 29 2004 LilyPond 2 3 26 is out This is another 2 4 release candidate This rel
118. framework for detecting bugs earlier which will make the development releases even better LilyPond 2 9 6 available May 24 2006 This release has new features in beam formatting beams may now be put on single stems and obey the beatGrouping property MusicXML converter Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 New essay pages May 22 2006 The Automated Engraving essay has been updated with material from the FISL talk with pages on modeling notation and algorithms for esthetics Happy reading LilyPond 2 9 5 available May 17 2006 This release supports object rotation hairpins with circled tips hairpins that run to barlines be fore notes and improvements in the MusicXML converter Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 4 available May 12 2006 This release has support for feathered beaming and note head styles in the markup note command In addition it has a lot of updates of the manual and a clean up of the spring spacer Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 8 2 available May 12 2006 This release has fixes for minor bugs and compilation issues Old downloads page 55 Community 143 LilyPond 2 9 3 is out May 7 2006 This new release has lots of updates of the manual courtesy Graham and the contributors of the mailing It handles formatting for ties in arpegiated chords better feature sponsored by Steve Doonan it has al niente hairpins courtesy of E
119. from David Kastrup whose work on LilyPond is solely paid for by financial contributions from other developer and users thank you and a report about experiences from a web based music typesetting service using LilyPond internally Come read LilyPond Report 28 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged LilyPond 2 16 1 released November 9 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 16 1 This has a number of updates to the previous stable version and should cause no problems We recommend that everybody upgrade to this version Lilypond 2 16 0 released August 24 2012 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2 16 1 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest quality sheet music possible It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous main stable version A few major improvements are e Support for kievan square notation e User and programming interfaces have greatly improved e Music functions have become quite more versatile A full list of new features is given in http lilypond org doc v2 16 Documentation changes index html Happy music typesetting LilyPond 2 16 was brought to you by Main development team Bertrand Bordage Trevor Daniels Colin Hall Phil Holmes Ian Hulin Reinhold Kainhofer David Kastrup Jonathan Kulp Werner Lemberg John Mandereau Pa
120. g e Step 2 Compile with command line To process test ly type the following at the command prompt lilypond test ly You will see something resembling 41 Download 42 GNU LilyPond 2 18 2 Processing test ly Parsing Interpreting music Preprocessing graphical objects Solving 1 page breaking chunks 1 1 pages Drawing systems Layout output to test ps Converting to test pdf Success compilation successfully completed Step 3 View output You may view or print the resulting test pdf Legalese All logos and product images are copyright and trademark acknowledged Tux the Linux Penguin was created by lewing isc tamu edu with the Gnu Image Manipula tion Program The FreeBSD logo is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation MacOS X Note LilyPond is a text based music engraver it is more similar to a programming language than a graphical score editing program Before downloading LilyPond please read about our Text input page 27 Packages Download e MacOS X x86 LilyPond 2 18 2 1For MacOS X 10 4 or higher running on Intel CPUs if in doubt use this e MacOS X PPC LilyPond 2 18 2 1For MacOS X 10 4 or higher running on G3 and G4 CPUs old Apple computers Install Double click the downloaded file then drag it to wherever you want Uninstall Delete the LilyPond app folder Running on the command line Download 43 Note I
121. ge 97 The LilyPond Report 22 Nov 3 2010 The LilyPond Report is back with some surprises and exciting news for the whole LilyPond community To be found in this issue is an up to date complete list of all LilyPond mailing lists and forums around the world Also for the very first time our special guest today is LilyPond s co founder and core developer Jan Nieuwenhuizen who has been busy these past months read on to find out what for Come read LilyPond Report 22 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged Alpha test four of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 38 released Oct 31 2010 LilyPond 2 13 38 is out this is the fourth alpha test of the upcoming 2 14 stable release Users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are still some Critical problems with this release the vertical spacing is suspicious in two cases and lilypond can crash with some odd input If you decide to test 2 13 38 do not be surprised to discover problems just send us polite Bug reports page 97 Alpha test three of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 37 released Oct 25 2010 LilyPond 2 13 37 is out this is the third alpha test of the upcoming 2 14 stable release Users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There
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123. h article on the LilyPond 2 6 release appeared on linuxfr org e October 2004 The editors of Computer Totaal a Dutch computer magazine describe LilyPond in the October 2004 issue as Wonderful free open source software The sheet music pro duced by LilyPond is exceptionally pretty a very powerful system that can do almost anything e July August 2004 Dave Phillips wrote an introductory article for Linux Journal At the sounding edge Lily Pond parts one and two e March 2004 Chris Cannam interviewed Han Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen on linuxmusi cian com original site defunct This interview was also reviewed in a slashdot story e February 2004 Jazz singer Gail Selkirk writes about Diving into LilyPond you can make lead sheets or full orchestral parts and the results can be stunning Computer Music Special issue CMS06 User testimonials Di fy d d Introduction 26 Carter Brey Principal Cellist New York Philharmonic ve written a couple of encore pieces for solo cello which I ve printed with LilyPond and which I m going to submit to Schirmer for publication I ll bet their engraved version wouldn t look half as sharp as mine Orm Finnendahl professor of Composition Musikhochschule Freiburg Although I don t know LilyPond very well yet I m very impressed I used the program to input a motet of Josquin Desprez in mensural notation and there s no doubt th
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125. hil Holmes Marek Klein Ralph Palmer James Lowe Support Colin Campbell Christian Hitz Phil Holmes Community 115 Translation contributors Jean Charles Malahieude Till Paala Yoshiki Sawada Lilypond 2 15 95 released August 11 2012 We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 95 With this release development on version 2 15 is frozen for the upcoming 2 16 stable release and only open to bug fixes All users are urged to try this version to ensure the best quality of the upcoming stable release If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 New features since 2 14 2 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 LilyPond 2 15 42 released August 02 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 42 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate The LilyPond Report 27 August 2 2012 The LilyPond Report is back with some interesting insights on new Scheme related features re cently added by our community s only paid developer David Kastrup thanks to your continuing donations Also to be found in this issue are an overview of some lesser known LilyPond com panion projects and a handful of more shallow factoids Come read LilyPo
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127. ience interaction using python and GNU LilyPond In New Interfaces for Music Expression May 2005 Alexandre Tachard Passos Marcos Sampaio Pedro Kr ger and Givaldo de Cidra Func tional Harmonic Analysis and Computational Musicology in Rameau In Proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music pages 207 210 2009 Graham Percival Tosten Anders and George Tzanetakis Generating Targeted Rhythmic Exercises for Music Students with Constraint Satisfaction Programming In International Computer Music Conference 2008 Alberto Simoes An lia Lourengo and Jos Jo o Almeida J Neves et al editor Using Text Mining Techniques for Classical Music Scores Analysis In New Trends in Artificial Intelligence 2007 Community 107 If you are aware of any other academic papers which could be listed here please let us know by following the instructions on Bug reports page 97 Old news Note Many old announcements and changelogs can be found in the Attic page 163 Lilypond 2 18 2 released March 23 2014 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2 18 2 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest quality sheet music possible It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts This version provides a number of updates to 2 18 0 including updated manuals We recom mend all users to upgrade to this version LilyPond production name
128. ilable July 18 2006 This release supports pdftex for lilypond book and uses PdfTeX for generating manuals so page numbers and references are now clickable Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Community 142 LilyPond 2 9 11 available July 12 2006 This release wraps improvements of the last two weeks As a new feature it supports tunable tuplet number formatting for nested tuplets Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 10 available June 15 2006 This releases fixes a couple of bugs in 2 9 9 Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 9 available June 15 2006 This releases fixes many bugs in 2 9 8 and earlier Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 8 available June 6 2006 2 9 8 has support for different spacing sections within a single score and better infrastructure for automated regression testing Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 8 4 available June 4 2006 2 8 4 fixes some minor bugs and includes a backport of the infrastructure for automated regres sion testing Old downloads page 55 First test results available June 4 2006 After a week of frantic tweaking the first automated testing results are available You can now see in full glory what features are broken in the development release LilyPond 2 9 7 available May 30 2006 2 9 7 has improvements in the formatting for figured bass and includes a new
129. ile automatically This allows vertical alignments to be stretched to fit pages in a second formatting run feature sponsored by Trevor Baca and Nicolas Sceaux Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 28 is out January 22 2006 This release contains numerous small fixes that were already in our GUB binaries In addition it has further polish for formatting of tied chords Theses improvements were sponsored by Steve Doonan Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Community 145 LilyPond 2 7 27 release 4 January 13 2006 The fourth release of our Grand Unified Binary for 2 7 27 is available T his release uses Pango 1 11 1 which has support for ligatures and kerning Enjoy Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 27 release 3 January 12 2006 The third release of our Grand Unified Binaries is available This release fixes external font support the decompression flag for Linux Also we have support for FreeBSD as well Jump to the Old downloads page 55 get them LilyPond 2 7 27 binaries are out January 7 2006 Starting with 2 7 26 the development team has been working on the installers We re proud to announce another version of these they are now available for Linux x86 MacOS X and Windows LilyPond 2 7 27 is out January 7 2006 This release allows you to switch staff lines on and off individually feature sponsored by Andrea Valle Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Li
130. ilyPond source code in parallel to the graphical view Extra LilyPond tweaks can be attached to notes chords etc and are stored with the Denemo file so that users can continue to edit graphically Moving the cursor in the LilyPond text moves the cursor in the graphical view and any syntax errors in your LilyPond tweaks are highlighted in the text view when printed from there Text editors Introduction 37 http elysium thsoft hu Elysium is a LilyPond IDE for Eclipse with an integrated side by side view for source and score It includes rapid visual amp auditive feedback without having to switch contexts and comes with many wizard driven templates http www gnu org software emacs Emacs is a text editor with language sensitive capabilities for many different computer lan guages Emacs is a highly extensible editor and can be used as an Integrated Development Environment There is a lilypond mode which supplies the language definitions for working with LilyPond source files A developer has written lyqi an Emacs major mode http www vim org Vim is a minimal text editor and is an extension of the older Unix vi editor It is also extensible and configurable As a general rule if you are not already familiar with Emacs or Vim then you would probably prefer to use a different editor for writing LilyPond input files More information on setting up Emacs and Vim can be found in Section Text editor support in A
131. including very small ones A full list of all known issues can be found here Grace notes Fix problems with synchronization of grace notes together with all underlying architecture see issue 34 in our tracker Grace notes are confusing to LilyPond s timing because they re like going back in time This causes weird effects especially when one staff has a grace note and the other doesn t Difficulty medium Requirements C MIDI Recommended familiarity with LilyPond internals Mentor s Mike Solomon Carl Sorensen MusicXML Adding comprehensive MusicXML export and improving import together with tests checking that it works Depending on time available implement some or all of the following e Handle basic musical content export like the MIDI export i e using dedicated exporter classes derived from the translator class e Build the XML tree of the basic musical content add a connection from music event to XML tag e Let all LilyPond engravers do their job Community 103 e Add ability to link each output object basically each stencil group of stencils to the music cause and thus to the XML tag in the XML tree e Add a XML output backend which can then add the layout information for each output object to the XML tags The goal will be considered achieved when a previously chosen score could be imported from MusicXML and exported back with no unintentional loss of data Difficulty medium Requirements MusicXML Py
132. inhold Kainhofer and adds support for splitting a book in several book parts contributed by Nicolas Sceaux Nested contexts of the same type are now allowed with any depth and overriding nested properties can be done with list syntax thanks to Neil Puttock This is hopefully the last Release Candidate before stable release 2 12 so you are welcome to test this release if you can to report new issues Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 64 November 18 2008 LilyPond 2 11 64 is available MusicXML import has been improved including church modes support and a few bugs in the compilation and documentation building processes are fixed The three documentation manuals are now fully translated in Spanish thanks to Francisco Vila Community 133 The font cache problem in Windows binaries which used to cause excessive slowness should be fixed Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 63 October 29 2008 LilyPond 2 11 63 is available This release has lots of updates to the documentation and trans lations Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 62 Release Candidate October 11 2008 LilyPond 2 11 62 is available This is is one of the last releases before 2 12 so testing it is encouraged In addition to a bugfix in tempo command this release has lot of updates to Spanish and German documentation translations and the stylesheet for HTML documentation has been improved Bugfixes
133. ins the usual number of bugfixes along with improved website translations However 14 critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond 2 13 17 released April 2 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 17 This release includes bugfixes for 4 critical issues However 15 critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond 2 13 16 released March 15 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 16 This release is intended for developers only and includes the usual round of bugfixes LilyPond 2 13 15 released March 4 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 15 This release is intended for developers only and includes a few updates to the binary build process in addition to the usual round of bugfixes Community 131 LilyPond Report 17 March 1 2010 Yay the Report is back with a new team It has been said that two heads are better than one does it apply to newsletters as well Read on and let us know In this issue we ll talk about websites and poetry frogs and bugs not to mention an extensive review of the Frescobaldi editor What are you waiting for Come read LilyPond Report 17 now LilyPond 2 13 14 released February 27 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 14 This release is intended for developers only and includes a large translation update in addition to the us
134. is release LilyPond 2 13 41 released Dec 4 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 41 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only Please note that this is not the second beta test Due to a number of untested changes to our build process we cannot be at all confident about the quality of this release LilyPond 2 13 40 released Nov 21 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 40 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only Community 127 Please note that this is not the second beta test Due to a number of untested changes to our build process we cannot be at all confident about the quality of this release Beta test one of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 39 released Nov 15 2010 LilyPond 2 13 39 is out this is the first beta test of the upcoming 2 14 stable release Users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are still some Critical problems with this release the vertical spacing is suspicious in two cases and lilypond can crash with some odd input If you decide to test 2 13 39 do not be surprised to discover problems just send us polite Bug reports pa
135. ish Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 24 is out December 20 2005 This release fixes a couple of bugs but more importantly slurs now avoid TupletNumbers and tuplet numbers may enter the staff feature sponsored by Trent Johnston tuplet brackets and numbers are implemented as separate grobs TupletBracket and TupletNumber rewrite sponsored by Trent Johnston string arguments for music functions may be specified without marks This allows syntactical constructs like clef and bar to be expressed in generic music functions Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Community 146 LilyPond 2 7 23 is out December 19 2005 This release has the following new features e Ties in chords are also formatted using score based formatting This reduces the number of collisions for ties in chords feature sponsored by Steve Doonan e With the Ntweak music function layout objects that are directly connected to input may be tuned easily feature sponsored by Sean Reed and Bertalan Fodor e Generic music functions may now also be used on articulations and chord elements feature sponsored by Sean Reed and Bertalan Fodor e Better support for MusicXML more options for spacing Lyrics it is now possible to sepa rately specify minimum distances for normal and hyphenated syllables features sponsored by Mark van den Borre and Bertalan Fodor Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 22 is o
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137. it 81 Yoshiki Sawada partially translated 97 96 partially up to date Yoshiki Sawada not translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada not translated up to date ja Manuals Section titles 135 LilyPond TITLE 1139 1 Running lilypond 4537 2 Updating with files convert ly 1484 Till Paala translated up to date Till Paala translated up to date Reinhold Kainhofer Till Paala Til Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date John Man dereau Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date John Man dereau Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Team hu translated partially up to date Team hu translated partially up to date Team hu partially translated 94 partially up to date Team hu translated partially up to date Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date Federico
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139. ite One of its practical consequences is that Nwith now also works with Score contexts Further 2 1 23 which was not announced here fixes a few bugs caused by the change of property syntax and has updates in the Program Reference document More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 February 13 2004 LilyPond 2 1 22 has a simplification of the Nproperty syntax it is shorter and more consistent now More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 February 12 2004 In LilyPond 2 1 21 output tweaks can be done at multiple levels of the context hierarchy In addition it has a bunch of bugfixes improvements in the documentation More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 February 9 2004 LilyPond 2 1 20 has MIDI output for drums It also sports a completely rewritten lilypond book script which is cleaner shorter and faster It also has a large number of bugfixes More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 February 5 2004 LilyPond 2 1 19 has rewritten support for drum notation This release also makes some long standing cleanups the removal of Thread all functionality is now moved into Voice and Lyrics functionality moved to LyricsVoice context More information in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 February 4 2004 LilyPond 2 1 18 is out This release has the new part combiner installed by default and a similar
140. itory LSR is a searchable database of LilyPond code snippets You can add snippets too so join the LSR project and contribute creative ideas for using LilyPond February 21 2005 LilyPond 2 5 12 is out The big news is that this release supports TrueType fonts This means that it is now possible to use all fonts available via FontConfig Also arpeggios may be written out using ties and individual objects may have colors Take a look at the Changes page 68 file and Old downloads page 55 February 4 2005 LilyPond 2 5 11 is out In this release foreign character sets are now supported in lilypond book too and it is possible to put system separators between systems Old downloads page 55 January 31 2005 LilyPond 2 5 10 is out This release sports as new EPS backend based on the PS backend This backend is used in the new and improved lilypond book script Old downloads page 55 Community 152 January 26 2005 LilyPond 2 5 9 is out This release fixes a couple of annoying bugs in the direct PS output for piano braces Old downloads page 55 January 16 2005 LilyPond 2 5 8 is out This release has many internal code cleanups In addition accuracy of error reporting has been improved See the change log and Old downloads page 55 January 11 2005 LilyPond 2 5 7 is out This release has a completely usable Pango integration for the PS backend The default font is Century Schoolbook from the PS font suite It
141. k Polesky Neil Puttock Mike Solomon Carl Sorensen Francisco Vila Valentin Villenave Janek Warchot Core Contributors Aleksandr Andreev Fr d ric Bron Torsten Himmerle Marc Hohl James Lowe Andrew Main Thomas Morley David Nalesnik Keith OHara Benk Pal Anders Pilegaard Julien Rioux Johannes Rohrer Adam Spiers Heikki Tauriainen Documentation Writers Fr d ric Bron Federico Bruni Colin Campbell Urs Liska James Lowe Thomas Morley Jean Charles Malahieude Guy Stalnaker Martin Tarenskeen Arnold Theresius Rodolfo Zitellini Bug Squad Colin Campbell Eluze Marc Hohl Phil Holmes Marek Klein Ralph Palmer Support Team Colin Campbell Eluze Marc Hohl Marek Klein Kieren MacMillan Urs Liska Ralph Palmer Translators Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel Felipe Castro Pavel Fric Jean Charles Malahieude Till Paala Yoshiki Sawada and numerous other contributors LilyPond blog June 2 2013 Janek Warchot has created a LilyPond blog You can find it at lilypondblog org LilyPond 2 16 2 released January 4 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 16 2 This release is mainly to correct a problem with lilypond book running on Windows We recommend that only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version The LilyPond Report 28 November 12 2012 The October issue of the LilyPond Report focuses on the meeting of LilyPond developers and users in Waltrop Germany last August O
142. ke LilyPond sometimes it s tough to know where to begin In addition to the avenues proposed below you can send an e mail to the lilypond devel gnu org mailing list and we ll help you to get started Simple tasks No programming skills required e Mailing list support answer questions from fellow users e Bug reporting help users create proper Section Bug reports in General Information and or join the Bug Squad to organize Section Issues in Contributor s Guide e Documentation small changes can be proposed by following the guidelines for Section Documentation suggestions in Contributor s Guide e LilyPond Snippet Repository LSR create and fix snippets following the guidelines in Section Adding and editing snippets in Contributor s Guide e Discussions reviews and testing the developers often ask for feedback about new docu mentation potential syntax changes and testing new features Please contribute to these discussions Advanced tasks These jobs generally require that you have the source code and can compile LilyPond Note We suggest that contributors using Windows or MacOS X do not attempt to set up their own development environment instead use Lilydev as discussed in Section Quick start in Contributor s Guide Contributors using Linux or FreeBSD may also use Lilydev but if they prefer their own development environment they should read Section Working with source code in Contribu
143. la magyarul May 22 2009 Elk sz lt a lilypond org nagy r sz nek magyar ford t sa a LilyPond honos t si projekt els l p sek nt A projekt c lja a LilyPond szabad kottaszed szoftver min l sz lesk r bben el rhet v t tele a magyar felhaszn l k sz m ra a teljes weboldal s dokument ci leford t sa r v n A teljes dokument ci leford t s hoz k zrem k d ket keres nk Ha r szt venn l a honos t sban k ldj egy e mailt a harmathdenes AT gmail com c mre Harmath D nes a LilyPond honos t si projekt vezet je The LilyPond Report 15 May 18 2009 The LilyPond Report is a short informal opinion column about the LilyPond project its team its world its community Follow this link to read the full issue The LilyPond Report 14 April 13 2009 The LilyPond Report is back on a new website This short informal weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project its team its world its community Follow this link to read the full issue LilyPond 2 12 2 and 2 13 0 March 21 2009 As a very belated announcement the stable version of LilyPond is now 2 12 2 and the next development version has begun with 2 13 0 LilyPond 2 12 0 Rune December 27 2008 A new stable release of LilyPond is available Announcement Changes page 68 Download page 39 LilyPond 2 11 65 Release Candidate December 2 2008 This release has improvements to MusicXML import contributed by Re
144. lated partially up to date es Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date fr John Mandereau Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date John Mandereau Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date John Mandereau Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Fr d ric Chi asson Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date it Federico Bruni translated up to date Federico Bruni translated up to date Federico Bruni translated up to date Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date T5 ja Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Manuals 1 2 Rhythms 6890 1 3 Expressive marks 1793 1 4 Repeats 1050 Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Fr d ric Chiasson Jean Charles Malahieude Valentin Villenave Francois Martin Xavier Scheuer translated up to d
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146. loads page 55 old versions e Development page 100 latest unstable version Software License LilyPond is published under the GPL page 55 Sponsors Many thanks to Virginia Tech and linuxaudio org for sponsoring our bandwidth W Virginia Tech Invent the Future fl linuxaudio org Legalese All logos and product images are copyright and trademark acknowledged Tux the Linux Penguin was created by lewing isc tamu edu with the Gnu Image Manipula tion Program The FreeBSD logo is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation The X image is not a registered trademark It was created by Nihonjoe and CyberSkull and placed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1 2 or later We found the image on this Wikimedia Commons page Download 40 The four colored rectangles image is not a registered trademark It was created by Rohitbd and placed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1 2 We found the image on this Wikimedia Commons page Unix Note LilyPond is a text based music engraver it is more similar to a programming language than a graphical score editing program Before downloading LilyPond please read about our Text input page 27 Generic Packages or Distribution Specific Packages Many distributions already include LilyPond within their normal package repositories and these are often much easier to install than the generic packages found here However the version of Lil
147. looks funny here c d b gt 8 c a b 8 Very few tiny examples exceed 10 lines of code quite often 4 lines are enough to demonstrate the problem Bug reports If you have input that results in a crash or wrong output then that is a bug Community 98 Step 1 Known bugs We may already know about this bug Check here http code google com p lilypond issues list Note Please DO NOT add bug reports directly to the bug tracker Once an issue has been added to the tracker feel free to add more information to that report Step 2 Creating a bug report If you have discovered a bug which is not listed please help us by creating a bug report Note We only accept reports in the form of Tiny examples page 96 We have very limited resources so any non minimal example will be rejected Almost every bug can be demonstrated in four notes or less Here is an example of a good bug report Accidentals should be printed for only 4 the first note in a tie but this version prints flats on both notes version 2 10 1 relative c best besi Step 3 Sending a bug report Once you have verified that the issue is not already known and created a bug report please send it to us e If you are subscribed to the bug lilypond gnu org mailing list send an email like normal e If you are not subscribed you can still post a bug report with the gmane lilypond bugs web interface However
148. mar Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 32 is out February 7 2006 This release contains some syntax changes words inside the paper and layout block are henceforth written with dashes for instance layout ragged right t Furthermore in this release we have dropped some legacy code from our library Now lily uses standard C strings and the STL vector Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 31 is out February 2 2006 This release fixes a load of bugs and has some internal cleanups Exported C members are now named ly class name function name in Scheme instead of Class name function name We are now using C vectors and strings instead of our own The Linux FreeBSD builds now include wrappers for Python scripts too so you can run convert ly and midi2ly Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 30 is out January 30 2006 This release has a few bug fixes like the solfa note head shape and collisions the epsfile command and in getting No ligature in normal words Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 29 is out January 27 2006 This release has the following new features Alignments of staves may be tuned per system feature sponsored by Trevor Baca individual systems may be positioned manually feature sponsored by Trevor Baca and Nicolas Sceaux a linebreaking configuration can now be saved as a ly f
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150. ms GNU Linux MacOS X and Windows LilyPond comes with extensive documentation and hundreds of example files T here is an active user community answering questions on the lilypond user mailing list while the development team makes sure that problems are solved quickly Enhanced editors Several developers themselves active LilyPond users have also written tools specifically aimed at making the process of editing LilyPond files faster and more effective For some examples see Easier editing page 33 Where now Still not convinced Look at some specific Examples page 7 If you ve already decided to try LilyPond first read about our Text input page 27 Examples LilyPond is powerful and flexible tool for engraving tasks of all kinds Please browse our gallery of examples and be inspired Introduction Classical Music This organ work by J S Bach is a fairly typical engraving project in LilyPond Jesu meine Freude BWV 610 Johann Sebastian Bach r o TT Tt y tee 2 Clav ref e ee ere ela d f e asd 9 Pedale
151. n Villenave John Man dereau translated up to date Federico Bruni Luca Rossetto Casel translated up to date Federico Bruni translated up to date Federico Bruni translated up to date Federico Bruni translated up to date 77 Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Manuals 2 Specialist no tation 81 2 1 Vocal music 5190 2 2 Keyboard and other multi staff instruments 888 2 3 Unfretted string instruments 281 Till Paala translated up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date John Mandereau Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude Jean Jacques Gerbaud translated up to date Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude Jean Charles Malahieude John Man dereau translated up to date Valentin Villenave Matthieu Jacquot Jean Charles Malahieude John Man dereau translated up to date Federico Bru
152. nction It is produced directly from the formatting definitions in the source code Almost all formatting functionality that is used internally is available directly to the user For example most variables that control thickness values distances etc can be changed in input files There are a huge number of formatting options and all of them are described in this document Each section of the Notation Reference has a See also subsection which refers to the generated documentation Read it e Internals split HTML the manual is split between many HTML pages small download for each page e Internals big HTML read this manual as one huge HTML page large single download 3 MB e internals pdf download as a PDF file large single download 4 MB Translated Translations status Last updated Wed Dec 18 12 23 14 UTC 2013 LilyPond Changes es it Section titles Francisco Vila Federico Bruni 1453 translated translated up to date up to date Manuals LilyPond TITLE 1139 Essay on music engraving Section titles 92 LilyPond TITLE 1139 1 Music engraving 5296 2 Literature list 326 A GNU Free Documen tation License 3724 automated Francisco Vila translated up to date de Till Paala translated up to date Till Paala translated up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated up to date Till Paala not translated
153. nd Report 27 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged Release candidate withdrawn July 11 2012 We have discovered a regression since 2 14 2 so lilypond 2 15 41 is no longer a candidate for the 2 16 0 release However please continue testing it we would like to discover and fix any more regressions as soon as possible If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 Release candidate 8 of 2 16 LilyPond 2 15 41 released July 4 2012 LilyPond 2 15 41 is out this is the eighth release candidate of the upcoming 2 16 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 14 2 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 16 0 release will be on 18 July 2012 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 15 40 released June 05 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 40 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate Release candidate withdrawn June 01 2012 We have discovered a regression since 2 14 2 so lilypond 2 15 39 is no longer a candidate for the 2 16
154. nd s interface is text based rather than graphical Please visit the help page at http lilypond org introduction html This will X Choose a name for your file for example test 1y Save in a Desktop amp ex FE my Documents E My Computer My Recent amp JMy Network Places Documents unused Desktop Shortcuts E bad ly test ly Desktop My Documents My Computer My Network File name test Places Save as type LilyPond files ly Y Download 52 Step 2 Compile To turn your LilyPond file into a music score you need to compile it This can be done a number of ways using drag and drop with right click double clicking or using the command line a DOS box We ll look at the first three to start with 1 Drag and drop the file directly onto the LilyPond icon on the desktop Not much will seem to happen but after a short while you should see two new files on your desktop test 1log and test pdf 2 Right click on the file and from the pop up context menu and choose Generate PDF Generate PDF Edit source Open Open With Wadd to archive Badd to test rar Compress and email Compress to test rar and email Send To Cut Copy Create Shortcut Delete Rename Properties test ly 3 Or simply double click the test 1y Download 53 Step 3 View output test pdf contains the engraved
155. nd the up and down Fa note heads for shaped heads have been swapped Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 3 is out July 25 2005 LilyPond 2 7 3 has improvements in performance which should result in faster operations 15 to 20 percent It also contains the new displayLilyMusic function Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 2 is out July 21 2005 LilyPond 2 7 2 has support for suggested accidentals for musica ficta notation easy entry for lyric melismata and improvements for quicker entry of scores Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Community 149 LilyPond 2 6 released June 27 2005 Version 2 6 is the latest stable release of LilyPond It now installs in a snap on Windows MacOS X and any version of Linux x86 Get up and running in minutes Pango text formatting lets you print Unicode lyrics in your favorite script and font Create SVG files and edit them in Inkscape Announcement Old downloads page 55 Changes page 68 LilyPond 2 7 1 is out July 20 2005 LilyPond 2 7 1 has no user visible changes However due to restructuring under the hood this version will be 10 to 20 faster Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 6 1 is out July 11 2005 This version fixes a few minor bugs found in 2 6 0 and also works on DOS based Windows versions Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 is out July 9 2005 LilyPond 2 7 0 is
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157. ni partially translated 2 76 up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date 78 Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Manuals 2 4 Fretted string instruments 2662 2 5 Percussion 811 2 6 Wind in struments 324 2 7 Chord nota tion 1972 Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Matthieu Jacquot Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude John Man dereau translated up to date Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude Jean Charles Malahieude John Man dereau translated up to date Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude Jean Charles Malahieude John Man dereau translated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date Federico Bruni not t
158. nline collaboration possible Accessibility Text based input also makes score writing possible for users with severe physical disabilities Dexterity impaired users who are unable to type or control a computer mouse can use speech recognition software to edit LilyPond files Even users who are totally blind can use screen reading software to write LilyPond files an impossible task in graphical based score writing programs Extensible design All settings can be changed to suit your personal typographical taste If that still is not enough there is always the built in scripting language Scheme a dialect of the powerful language LISP Settings variables and functions are all documented in the comprehensive program reference manual Introduction ri Environment 7 W MW 9 v oe Ioreresrrevierverrerkr C toler eret d rent p minna ci seta cl a ce gt b i t vira frei oc EE L re 2 MEET asa pra T M X phi PES AR Lr ddp uH da ape zT neg trit iler pie sett obey g inan Free software LilyPond can be downloaded free of charge Yep It s free Get it from the download page It s also free as in speech software It comes with source code and permission to change and copy it So are you irritated by a bug or yearning for a feature Simply add it yourself or pay someone else to do it Excellent support LilyPond runs on all popular platfor
159. nneke gnu org http JoyofSource com http AvatarAcademy nl Main author Graham Percival http percival music ca Project manager Documentation Editor Mark Polesky Assistant documentation editor Code cleanup Neil Puttock Core developer Mike Solomon mike mikesolomon org Core developer Frog meister Carl Sorensen c sorensenObyu edu Core developer Francisco Vila Translation Meister Valentin Villenave LSR editor and Bug squad member Janek Warchot happy nitpicker Previous Development Team Mats Bengtsson mats bengtsson ee kth se https www kth se profile matben Support guru Pedro Kroeger Build meister John Mandereau john mandereau free fr Translation meister Graham Percival http percival music ca Bug meister Grand Documentation Project leader J rgen Reuter reuter_j Qweb de http www juergen reuter de Ancient notation Erik Sandberg Bug meister Nicolas Sceaux Core developer Schemer extraordinaire Current Contributors Programming Aleksandr Andreev Fr d ric Bron Torsten Hammerle Marc Hohl James Lowe Andrew Main Thomas Morley David Nalesnik Keith OHara Benk P l Anders Pilegaard Julien Rioux Johannes Rohrer Adam Spiers Heikki Tauriainen Community 105 Font Documentation Fr d ric Bron Federico Bruni Colin Campbell Urs Liska James Lowe Thomas Morley Jean Charles Malahieude Guy Stalnaker Martin Tarenskeen Arnold Theresius Rodolfo Zitellini Bug squa
160. not e Creating a tiny example helps you to understand what is happening Many false problem reports can be avoided by attempting to create a tiny example if you cannot replicate a bug in a tiny example then the problem was probably an insufficient understanding of LilyPond not an actual bug How to create them e Include the version number e Make it small Examples about spacing or page layout might require many bars of music but most issues can be reproduced using less than a single measure e When trying to create an example try commenting out or 4t sections of your file If you can comment something while still demonstrating the main idea then remove the commented material e Avoid using complicated notes keys or time signatures unless the bug is about the behavior of those items e Do not use override or set commands unless the bug is about those specific commands e Optionally attach an image showing the desired graphical output How tiny should they be Is the code below a minimal example version 2 14 1 include english 1ly score new Staff key d major numericTimeSignature time 2 4 cs d b gt 16 lt cs d b gt 8 Here the tie on the D s looks funny Too tall Left hand endpoint is not aligned with the B tie lt cs d b gt 8 b d a gt Well it is not very big but a truly minimal example is here version 2 14 1 4 middle tie
161. note that due to the possibility of a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 10 released September 6 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 10 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes Community 121 It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few outstanding Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 9 released August 30 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 9 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and also adds support for MacOS X 10 7 It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few outstanding Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate Release candidate 1 of 2 16 LilyPond 2 15 8 released Aug 01 2011 LilyPond 2 15 8 is out this is the first release candidate of the upcoming 2 16 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 14 2 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 16 0 release will be on 08 Aug 2011 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 15 7 released July
162. nses and specifically LilyPond engraved scores are instrumental in making written mu sic accessible to all e February 2008 In articles on his personal site Andrew Hawryluk compares Finale and LilyPond in general terms and evaluates engraving capabilities of both pieces of software in detail The second article is an instructive analysis of engraving issues in Rachmaninoff s Piano Prelude No 6 including comparisons with a hand engraved reference edition Introduction 25 e June 2006 DistroWatch awards LilyPond and writes Ladies and Gentleman we are pleased to an nounce that based on readers requests the DistroWatch May 2006 donation has been awarded to LilyPond 190 00 and Lua US 250 00 e December 2005 Linux Journal publishes an article titled Make Stunning Schenker Graphs with GNU Lily Pond It is an in depth but hands on feature article with crisp LilyPond graphics Author Kris Shaffer remarks GNU LilyPond generates beautiful graphics that make commercial alternatives seem second rate e August 20 2005 The Belgian newspaper De Standaard investigates what drives Free Software authors in an article titled Delen van KENNIS zonder WINSTBEJAG Non profit sharing of knowl egde in its DS2 bijlage LilyPond is used as an example and the article is interspersed with quotes from an email interview with Jan Nieuwenhuizen This marks LilyPond s first appearance in mainstream printed press e June 2005 A Frenc
163. nslate to up to date date up to partially date up to date Pavel Till Francisco John Harmath Federico Yoshiki Jan Ben Fric Paala Vila Man D nes Bruni Sawada Nieuwen Luo dereau huizen not not not not Luca Anthony trans trans trans trans Ros not Fok lated lated lated Jean lated setto trans Tineke Charles Casel lated de not up to up to up to Malahieud amp p to Munnik trans date date date date not up to lated trans date not lated not up to trans trans date lated up to lated date up to up to date date Till Francisco Jean Harmath Federico Yoshiki Jan Ben Fric Paala Vila Charles D nes Bruni Sawada Nieuwen Luo Malahieude huizen Anthony partially partially translated partially Luca Fok trans trans John trans Ros partially lated lated Man lated setto trans Tineke partially 95 97 up to dereau 95 Casel lated de trans date 97 Munnik lated translat 97 partially partially partially up to up to up to partially not date date translatethte up to up to trans date date lated up to up to date date Manuals 87 Downloadable versions Downloadable tarballs only available at http lilypond org Previous stable versions LilyPond 2 16 Documentation LilyPond 2 14 Documentation LilyPond 2 12 Documentation LilyPond 2 10 Documentation LilyPond 2 8 Documentation LilyPond 2 6 Documentation LilyPond 2 4 Documentation LilyPond 2 2 Documentation LilyPond 2 0 Documentation LilyPond 1 8 Documentation LilyPond 1
164. nux Journal article January 2006 Linux Journal publishes an article on Make Stunning Schenker Graphs with GNU LilyPond It is a in depth but hands on feature article with crisp LilyPond graphics Author Kris Shaffer remarks GNU LilyPond generates beautiful graphics that make commercial alternatives seem second rate This article is now available on line New binaries for LilyPond 2 7 26 January 4 2006 The Development team has been working around the clock to improve to fix the first wave bugs reported by you The new results for MacOS and Windows are up on the Old downloads page 55 page Let us know how you fare LilyPond 2 7 26 is out December 31 2005 This release has an improvement in the MusicXML importer feature sponsored by Mark vd Borre s Music Academy now staves and voices are also setup so you can readily run LilyPond on the ly output The important occasion for this release is our new build environment we have completely revamped it which means that binaries for all platforms including MacOS Windows Linux x86 but probably FreeBSD too will be more quickly available for download A happy 2006 from the LilyPond Development Team Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 25 is out December 24 2005 This release has various bugfixes Also stems on the center line now have their directions interpolated to minimize the number of direction changes feature sponsored by Basil Crow and Mike Rol
165. o announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 26 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond 2 13 25 released June 20 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 25 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond 2 13 24 released June 14 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 24 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond 2 13 23 released June 3 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 23 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only Community 130 LilyPond 2 13 22 released May 27 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 22 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond 2 13 21 released May 12 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 21 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers
166. o not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 13 released September 27 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 13 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate Release candidate 2 cancelled Sep 23 2011 The release countdown is cancelled due to the discovery of a Critical regression Release candidate 2 of 2 16 LilyPond 2 15 12 released Sep 20 2011 LilyPond 2 15 12 is out this is the second release candidate of the upcoming 2 16 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 14 2 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 16 0 release will be on 27 Sep 2011 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 15 11 released September 11 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 11 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please
167. oads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 37 is out March 4 2006 This release has more bug fixes Please help us by testing it Changes page 68 Old down loads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 36 is out February 24 2006 This is another release candidate for 2 8 It has lots of bug fixes and polishes to the documenta tion It also contains support for creating ties that are only on their right side connected to note heads which is handy for repeats feature sponsored by Steve Doonan The documentation suite can now be downloaded as a separate tarball from lilypond org Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 35 is out February 19 2006 This release has lots of bugs fixes The plan is to release 2 8 at the end of this month so bug reports are very welcome By definition a bug is release critical if it wasn t present in version 2 6 Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Community 144 LilyPond 2 7 34 is out February 16 2006 This release has a bunch of bugfixes and new features Newly created contexts may also be named with new Voice alto Thicknesses of tie and slurs may be tuned separately for the endings and the middle part Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 33 is out February 10 2006 Items directly connected with a music input element may be parenthesized for example c4 parenthesize lt d parenthesize fis a gt This feature was sponsored by Ramana Ku
168. oes Copyright C year name of author This program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 3 of the License or at your option any later version This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE See the GNU General Public License for more details You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program If not see http www gnu org licenses Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail If the program does terminal interaction make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode program Copyright C year name of author This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for details type show w This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions type show c for details The hypothetical commands show w and show c should show the appropriate parts of the General Public License Of course your program s commands might be different for a GUI interface you would use an about box You should also get your employer if you work as a programmer or school if any to sign a copyright disclaimer for the program if necessary For more informa
169. ok has been im proved with better performance a bugfix about included files and more flexibility for prepro cessing documents with LaTeX variants Support for enclosing text in a rounded box has been contributed by Valentin Villenave Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 44 available April 14 2008 Release 2 11 44 is available Support for figured bass and chord names has been added to the MusicXML converter Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 lilypond org lilypond org Japanese translation 200848 April 4 2008 lilypond org LilyPond 2 11 43 available March 31 2008 Release 2 11 43 has been available since March 27 It fixes a couple of formatting bugs and the font cache problem with MS Windows binaries which caused excessive slowness has been fixed Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 42 available March 9 2008 Release 2 11 42 is out It fixes some formatting and spacing bugs Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 Community 136 Comparison of music engraving with Finale and LilyPond February 25 2008 In three articles Andrew Hawryluk compares Finale and LilyPond in general terms and evalu ates in detail engraving capabilities of both pieces of software l he second article is an instructive analysis of Rachmaninoff s Piano Prelude 6 engraving including comparisons with a reference hand engraved edition Read the articles LilyPond 2 11 41 available February
170. on 29 It s as simple as A B C Notes are encoded with letters and numbers Special commands are entered with backslashes P nn Commands start with 2 4 Letters are notes bass a c4cggaagz Co NV Numbers are durations Alterations are made with different names add is for sharp and es for flat these are Dutch note names other languages are available LilyPond figures out where to put accidentals relative c Add articulations key c Winor g Sees c lt d f gis b sees g bes Add es for flat is for sharp Introduction 30 Pop music Put chords and lyrics together to get a lead sheet lt lt chords _ N Enter chord names relative c bw Enter melody Naddlyrics You are the sky and my gt gt Enter lyrics Combine melody and lyrics You are the sky and my rain Introduction 31 Orchestral parts The input file contains the notes of piece of music Score and parts can be made from a single input file so that changing a note always affects the score and parts To be able to include the same music in multiple places the music is assigned to a variable a name relative c Enter multi rest Mime 2 4 77 R2 3 r4 f8 a cis4 f ed Store notes in variable dbassoonNotes S relative c clef bass r4 d 8 f gis4 g b bes a8 e f4 g d gis f This variable is then used in a single part here transpo
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173. ond 2 11 7 and 2 10 7 available January 1 2007 New Improved With even more bugfixes Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 6 available December 30 2006 This release supports arbitrary fractional alterations allowing music with different microtonal conventions to be typeset Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 6 available December 30 2006 New Improved With even more bugfixes Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 5 available December 24 2006 These releases complete the translation infrastructure for Documentation Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 5 available December 24 2006 New Improved With even more bugfixes Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 4 available December 21 2006 The vertical spacing improvements that were introduced in 2 11 0 now work within a system as well as between systems Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 3 available December 19 2006 This release has graphical test results and several website build improvements Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 3 available December 19 2006 This release fixes several bugs Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LinuxPPC binaries available December 19 2006 From now on our GUB binary builds incl
174. out It has support for paragraph text and pitched trill notation Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 2 5 31 released June 22 2005 LilyPond 2 5 32 is now available for download binaries for Fedora MacOS only It has a few very minor bugfixes and a rewrite of the TTF embedding code which should be a lot more robust now Old downloads page 55 Traduction du site de LilyPond 15 juin 2005 L quipe des traducteurs vous pr sente le site de LilyPond en frangais Nous travaillons sur la traduction des pages encore non traduites Bon surf 2 5 31 for Windows and MacOS June 15 2005 2 5 31 is now available for both Windows and MacOS X The Windows version should now work with embedding TTF fonts and the MacOS X has better help functionality Old downloads page 55 2 5 31 released June 15 2005 This release has a few bugfixes In the MacOS X version ClickEdit has been renamed to LilyPond and you can now upgrade your files and compile them directly from LilyPond Old downloads page 55 2 5 30 released June 10 2005 This is hopefully the last Release Candidate before 2 6 Give it a good shake to find those last bugs Old downloads page 55 2 5 29 released June 7 2005 In this release the documentation also has pictures In addition the Mac version can also read native mac fonts dfonts and fonts in resource forks Old downloads page 55 2 5 27 released May 31 2005 It has a big
175. out the changes in the ChangeLog December 3 2004 LilyPond 2 5 3 was released A new script espressivo has been added for a combination of crescendo and decrescendo on a single note In markups expressions stacked with column center align etc are not grouped with lt gt anymore but with P LilyPond will now avoid line breaks that cause long texts to stick outside of the page staff Grace notes following a main note used to be entered by letting the grace notes follow a skip in a parallel expression Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog November 26 2004 LilyPond 2 5 2 was released It has several goodies including solfa notation shaped noteheads and an easier mechanism for customizing title footer and header layout Don t forget to rebuild the fonts as they have been changed to accomodate the solfa notation Old downloads page 55 and check out the changes in the ChangeLog Community 153 November 20 2004 LilyPond 2 5 1 is out This is an experimental release containing some proof of concept code for our graphical layout editor You can add and remove things from the file and the tweaks will still work as long as the tweaked notes remain in the place ie start at the same time wise and be part of the same context Further attractions are the gnome backend now also draws beams and slurs updates to the SVG backend support for the Imodern font set
176. oviding LilyPond it is really good Werner Lemberg Conductor at the Theatre in Koblenz Germany and distinguished GNU Hacker Anyway LilyPond does an amazingly good job gt Paul Davis developer of JACK and Ardour I think LilyPond is an incredible program and it produces wonderful wonderful output when i read an interview about it last year i was raving to several friends of mine about its potential Dr Mika Kuuskankare researcher at the Sibelius Academy Finland composer and author of Expressive Notation Package ENP I have the deepest respect towards LilyPond and towards its creators and maintainers as I know from personal experience how difficult this kind of software can be David Cameron Musician professional typesetter and long time SCORE user My heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributes to this project I was a power SCORE user for big typesetting houses way back in the 90s but I feel LilyPond finally makes it possible for me to get exactly what I want on the page especially when it isn t standard practice If you are aware of any other news articles or testimonals which could be listed here please let us know by following the instructions on Bug reports page 97 Where now Read about our Text input page 27 Text input Introduction Compiling Music spun cca Fot Fu Li nca dona th far b B esi giz B d gt d r b 5 e gie d 4 31 5 slurBeutral e er
177. pond git repository Documentation writers and testers will generally want to download the latest binary GNU Linux x86 LilyPond 2 19 3 1 GNU Linux 64 LilyPond 2 19 3 1 Community 101 GNU Linux PPC LilyPond 2 19 3 1 FreeBSD 1386 LilyPond 2 19 3 1 FreeBSD amd64 LilyPond 2 19 3 1 MacOS X x86 LilyPond 2 19 3 1 MacOS X PPC LilyPond 2 19 3 1 Windows LilyPond 2 19 3 1 Source lilypond 2 19 3 tar gz Contributor s Guide LilyPond development is a fairly complicated matter In order to help new contributors and to keep the whole system mostly stable we have written a manual for development tasks e Contributor s Guide split HTML the manual is split between many HTML pages small download for each page e Contributor s Guide big HTML read this manual as one huge HTML page large single download 500 kB e contributor pdf download as a PDF file large single download 2 8 MB Regression tests e Regression tests This release s regtests pdf version MusicXML tests This release s musicXML tests pdf version abc2ly tests This release s abc2ly tests pdf version lilypond book tests This release s lilypond book tests pdf version All versions e Comparisons between regression tests e Archive of all regression tests Manuals Note These manuals are for LilyPond 2 18 2 the latest manuals can be found at http lilypond org Introduction Learning split HTML Glossary split HTML Es
178. pplication Usage http www uoregon edu koch texshop The TexShop editor for MacOS X can be extended to run LilyPond lilypond book and convert ly from within the editor using the extensions available at http users dimi uniud it nicola vitacolonna home content lilypond scripts Programs that can export LilyPond code Score tab and MIDI editors e bwwtolily attempts to convert a bww or bmw file to LilyPond While not all of the em bellishments may get converted properly this is especially true with piobaireachd the program will list them e Canorus a score editor can also export to LilyPond but is still beta software Testers are welcome though e Enc2ly is a GNU Linux program which converts an Encore music score into a LilyPond one e go enc2ly is a Go tool that converts Encore files to LilyPond It was created using Felipe Castro s research and reverse engineering by tweaking existing enc files and loading them using the 4 55 demo version e MuseScore a score editor has incomplete LilyPond export but is being actively developed e NtEd a score editor based on the Cairo library it has experimental support for exporting to LilyPond e NW2LY is a C program which converts a NoteWorthy composer song into LilyPond e Ripple is a program that helps create scores and parts including a mode for mixing different musical works together in a single score or part Introduction 38 e Rosegarden an audio and MIDI seq
179. r 29 2013 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2 18 0 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest quality sheet music possible It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts Among the numerous improvements and changes the following might be most visible e Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather than a rectangular bounding box This greatly reduces the occurrence of unsightly large gaps e Sets and overrides can now use the syntax override Voice TextSpanner bound details left text rit instead of the previous override Voice TextSpanner bound details left text rit Community 108 e Triplets with a given group length can now be written as tuplet 3 24 c8 cc ccc instead of times 2 3 c8 c c times 2 3 c8 cc A full list of noteworthy new features is given in http lilypond org doc v2 18 Documentation changes index html Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose financial backing en abled one core developer David Kastrup to focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle LilyPond 2 18 has been brought to you by Main Developers Bertrand Bordage Trevor Daniels Colin Hall Phil Holmes Ian Hulin Reinhold Kainhofer David Kastrup Jonathan Kulp Werner Lemberg John Mandereau Patrick McCarty Joe Neeman Han Wen Nienhuys Jan Nieuwenhuizen Graham Percival Mar
180. r contributors and testers e GSoC 2012 page 102 our ideas for 2012 edition of Google Summer of Code e Authors page 104 the people who made LilyPond what it is today e Acknowledgements page 106 projects and institutions that support LilyPond Miscellaneous e Publications page 106 what we wrote and have had written about us e Old news page 107 an archive e Attic page 163 announcements and changelogs from past versions Contact User Discussions and Help User mailing list lilypond user gnu org This mailing list is the main place for users to discuss and help each other lilypond user subscribe and info user archivel archive2 archive3 send to lilypond user with gmane Note When asking questions please use Tiny examples page 96 LilyPond Snippet Repository The LilyPond Snippet Repository is a large collection of user submitted examples which can freely be copied and used in your own works See what other people have written and add your own http lsr dsi unimi it Particularly instructive examples from LSR are included in our official documentation in Snippets page 67 IRC Some level of support is provided on our IRC channel lilypond irc freenode net This channel has no public archive so any question that may be useful for others would better be posted to one of the mailing lists Community 96 Other languages Spanish mailing list German forum Portuguese group
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182. ranslated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date 79 Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated up to date Yoshiki Sawada translated partially up to date Manuals 2 8 Contempo rary music 475 2 9 Ancient no tation 5375 2 10 World mu sic 1446 3 General input and output 10392 4 Spacing sues 12256 Till Paala translated up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Till Paala translated partially up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Francisco Vila translated up to date Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Jean Jacques Gerbaud Valentin Villenave Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Jean Charles Malahieude Valentin Villenave translated up to date Fr d ric Chiasson Jean Charles Malahieude translated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date Federico Bruni not translated up to date Federico Bruni not
183. re listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 16 0 release will be on 02 March 2012 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 15 29 released Feb 9 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 29 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 28 released Feb 3 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 28 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 27 released Jan 24 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 27 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate The LilyPond Report 23 Jan 20 2012 The LilyPond Report is back with developer David Kastrup as a new editor Thi
184. ree known regressions against 2 12 3 still exist Issue 1173 MetronomeMarks cannot be aligned on a note if a multi measure rest exists in another voice and two spacing bugs Issue 1240 and Issue 1252 If you decide to test 2 13 35 do not be surprised to discover problems just send us polite Bug reports page 97 Alpha test of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 34 released Sep 21 2010 LilyPond 2 13 34 is out this is the first alpha test of the upcoming 2 14 stable release Users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 One known regression against 2 12 3 still exist Issue 1173 MetronomeMarks cannot be aligned on a note if a multi measure rest exists in another voice but we expect to find more If you decide to test 2 13 34 do not be surprised to discover problems just send us polite Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 13 33 released Sep 10 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 33 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond 2 13 32 released Sep 8 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 32 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes However a number of critical issues still remain so this release is intended for developers only LilyPond Report 20 Sep
185. release However please continue testing it we would like to discover and fix any more regressions as soon as possible If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 Release candidate 3 of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 54 released Mar 13 2011 LilyPond 2 13 54 is out this is the third release candidate of the upcoming 2 14 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 Community 125 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 14 0 release will be on March 27 2011 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 LilyPond 2 13 53 released Mar 6 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 53 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes Please note that this is not the third release candidate due to a few remaining Critical bugs LilyPond 2 13 52 released Mar 1 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 52 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes Please note that this is not the third release candidate due to a few remaining Critical bugs LilyPond 2 13 51 released Feb 22 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 51 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes Please note that this is not the third release
186. released This is the second LilyPond 2 0 prerelease Check the Changes page 68 and download here September 19 2003 LilyPond 1 9 8 is released This is the first LilyPond 2 0 prerelease Check the Changes page 68 and download here September 17 2003 LilyPond 1 9 7 is released LilyPond now has support for quarter tone accidentals Old down loads page 55 September 16 2003 LilyPond 1 9 6 is released It has a lot of minor fixes and updates Old downloads page 55 September 10 2003 LilyPond 1 9 5 is released With this release the 1 9 branch is feature complete After some stabilization and documentation work 2 0 will be available in a few weeks Old downloads page 55 September 9 2003 LilyPond 1 8 2 is released This release fixes a couple of minor bugs Old downloads page 55 September 7 2003 LilyPond 1 8 binaries are available for Windows Cygwin version 1 5 Old downloads page 55 August 31 2003 LilyPond 1 9 4 is released This is an experimental release read the announcement before trying Community 163 August 31 2003 LilyPond 1 8 binaries for slackware available Get them here August 31 2003 LilyPond 1 9 3 is released This release supports tagging for music version control and has better fingering placement flexibility Read the Changes page 68 and get it here August 28 2003 LilyPond 1 9 2 is released Read the Changes page 68 and get it here August 26 2003 LilyPond
187. rlend Aasland and some cleanups of the PostScript output courtesy David Feuer Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 FISL7 0 slides available April 22 2006 The slides for Han Wen s talk at FISL 7 are now online Publications page 106 LilyPond 2 8 1 is out April 3 2006 Important bugfixes include CJK font handling and a Darwin x86 port Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 9 1 is out April 3 2006 It s mostly a bugfix release and it s almoste the same as 2 8 1 This release mainly fixes problems with CJK font loading Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond on MacOS X Intel March 31 2006 LilyPond now also runs on Intel based macs offering a 40096 speedup over the emulated PowerPC binaries Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 8 0 is out March 22 2006 Version 2 8 is here Read the release announcement Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 39 is out March 17 2006 This release has even more bug fixes Please test before 2 8 is released Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 38 is out March 12 2006 This is likely to be the last release candidate before we release 2 8 so report any bugs that you might find New attractions include lilypond postscript files now work with GSView cut amp pasting lily code from PDF files should now work and spacing fixes for multi measure rests Changes page 68 Old downl
188. rmed at the University of Florida s Electroacoustic Music Festival FEMF October 2010 e A modern edition of the Serenata Erminia by Alessandro Scarlatti edited by Thomas Griffin Musicologist Rome Italy Performed on 22 October 2010 in the Galleria of the Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano Naples Italy Alessandro Scarlatti 2010 in celebration of the composer s 350th birthday e Mercury Baroque s performance of Lully s Armide May 15 16 2009 in Houston Texas engraving by Nicolas Sceaux e Instrumental excerpts from Rameau s Hippolyte et Aricie at St James s Church in Man hattan May 8 2009 by Frederick Renz and his ensemble Early Music New York engraving by Nicolas Sceaux Introduction 24 e Affaire trang re an opera by Valentin Villenave to a French libretto by Lewis Trondheim premiered February 1 2009 at L Op ra National de Montpellier France Published sheet music e Mutopia Project over 1500 pieces of classical sheet music for free download and the main showcase of LilyPond scores e Etude sheet music on steroids is an iPhone app which displays piano music engraved with LilyPond including many pieces from Mutopia The app includes a virtual piano keyboard showing which keys to press to help beginners learn how to read sheet music e Adoro Music Publishing high quality scores of sacred music available for immediate down load or in traditional paper format e The Shady Lane Publishing a mi
189. rties that have Procedure values are thought to be procedures that compute said property i e override Beam direction lambda grob if gt random 10 5 UP DOWN will set a random direction for beams Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 13 is out October 18 2005 This release features slashed numerals plus signs and interruptible extender lines for figured bass Merging of Figured bass lines has been made switchable with the figuredBassCenterCon tinuations property For each grob a subproperty in callbacks property defines the procedure which computes it This is major internal cleanup which also provides advanced tweakability for power users Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 6 4 is out October 11 2005 This release fixes a few minor problems with the stable series Changes page 68 Old down loads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 12 is out October 07 2005 It features more annotations for the page layout engine and some more sponsored features Beamlets may stick out of the side of beams feature sponsored by Trevor Baca new support for figured bass with support for continuation lines and tuning of figures brackets and alignments feature sponsored by Trent Johnston vertical alignments of staves can now be tuned easily for individual systems feature sponsored by Nicolas Sceaux Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 11 is out October 0
190. s etc Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 18 is out November 21 2005 This version features nestable system start delimiters like bracket brace It also adds square line bracket feature sponsored by Trevor Baca It also has refactored routines for tie formatting This will make it easier to get better tie formatting for chords feature sponsored by Steve Doonan It also has a few bug fixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 17 is out November 17 2005 This version has refactored routines for tie formatting This will make it easier to get better tie formatting for chords feature sponsored by Steve Doonan It also has a few bug fixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 Community 147 LilyPond 2 7 16 is out November 11 2005 This release fixes a large number of bugs Please upgrade before reporting bugs in the 2 7 series Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 15 is out November 3 2005 This release has another massive cleanup of the backend Each grob property may also be a erob closure This means that it is possible to combine functions Calculation of extent and offset of grob is now controlled via the X extent Y extent X offset and Y offset properties Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 14 is out October 23 2005 This release has more cleanup in the layout engine Now prope
191. s and also provides prominent facilities for anybody to edit those works A public wiki that anybody can edit is an example of such a server A Massive Multiauthor Collaboration or MMC contained in the site means any set of copyrightable works thus published on the MMC site CC BY SA means the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 license published by Creative Commons Corporation a not for profit corporation with a principal place of Manuals 93 business in San Francisco California as well as future copyleft versions of that license published by that same organization Incorporate means to publish or republish a Document in whole or in part as part of another Document An MMC is eligible for relicensing if it is licensed under this License and if all works that were first published under this License somewhere other than this MMC and subsequently incorporated in whole or in part into the MMC 1 had no cover texts or invariant sections and 2 were thus incorporated prior to November 1 2008 The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC contained in the site under CC BY SA on the same site at any time before August 1 2009 provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing Manuals 94 ADDENDUM How to use this License for your documents To use this License in a document you have written include a copy of the License in the document and put the following copyright and license notices just after the
192. s issue features an expos on some of the new handy commands recently added to LilyPond as well as an interview with LilyPond contributor and composer Mike Solomon Come read LilyPond Report 23 now comments and contributions are warmly encouraged LilyPond 2 15 26 released Jan 16 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 26 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate The 2 15 25 has been skipped due to build problems LilyPond 2 15 24 released Jan 07 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 24 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate Community 119 LilyPond 2 15 23 released Dec 21 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 23 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 22 released Dec 15 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2
193. say split HTML Regular Notation split HTML Usage split HTML Learning big HTML Glossary big HTML Essay big HTML Notation big HTML Usage big HTML learning pdf music glossary pdf essay pdf notation pdf usage pdf Community 102 Snippets split HTML Snippets big HTML snippets pdf Infrequent Web split HTML Web big HTML web pdf Changes split HTML Changes big HTML changes pdf Extending split HTML Extending big HTML extending pdf Internals split HTML Internals big HTML internals pdf GSoC 2012 What is Google Summer of Code It is a global program run by Google that offers students stipends for working on open source software projects during summer vacations The LilyPond Team decided that this is an excellent opportunity to find new contributors and encourage students already participating in LilyPond development to become more involved One of our contributors was accepted for 2012 edition of the program as part of the GNU project we hope to participate in future editions as well Our 2012 Ideas List Below is a list of projects that we suggested for GSoC 2012 students Although the application period is over we decided to keep this webpage online as an inspiration for anyone who is interested in developing LilyPond Some members of the development team are willing to help people who would like to tackle these projects Of course there are many more things to improve in LilyPond
194. se version 1 2 We found the image on this Wikimedia Commons page Source 5 Note LilyPond is a text based music engraver it is more similar to a programming language than a graphical score editing program Before downloading LilyPond please read about our Text input page 27 Note We do not recommend that you attempt to build LilyPond your self almost all user needs are better met with the pre built version A Download 95 Source tarball Source lilypond 2 18 2 tar gz For an extensive listing of all versions old and new see our download site Compiling instructions Instructions are listed in Section Compiling in Contributor s Guide Old downloads Note LilyPond is a text based music engraver it is more similar to a programming language than a graphical score editing program Before downloading LilyPond please read about our Text input page 27 All versions For an extensive listing of all versions old and new see our download site GPL Software license GNU LilyPond is published under the GNU General Public License An introduction to this license and our reasons for choosing it is given in Freedom page 22 GNU General Public License Version 3 29 June 2007 Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation Inc http fsf org Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed Preamb
195. sed with condensed rests spanning several measures Condense multi rests Fo transpose f c hornNotes Crouse variable Transpose for F instrument Introduction 32 The same variable is used in the full score here in concert pitch Create staff T Combine staves in parallel Beginner Documentation We realize that many users find this way of entering music a bit odd For this reason we have written extensive documentation to help new users beginning with Learning page 65 The Learning Manual is the best place to start as many questions are answered before they come up Please read the Learning Manual before complaining about bugs New users occasionally believe that LilyPond is not working correctly when in fact it is working precisely as designed More in depth information is available in Manuals page 65 Ben Lemon a LilyPond user has created a range of video tutorials on his blog and which are aimed at new users Introduction 33 Easier editing environments Bel Gee Deel eed RUDE Le A Pe Ye ep ja Qa Cu b oom a ef li E Fx nu iri misim E I aan bes Tes delli rete is ede X pA fee umie d cpn rt i aP amiar i Teri iaa p Piia o Hone r AD iwianFraid ga n 3 ia FRI ai AR RE ibo E aL LR a i E jb ue ihipa k maoa sh ivtog Tenet gan iF E i maia d i i we Hi o HT ab find iM cixb cip J n FU FT fF dr m EEE tdi ai b a
196. sion We recommend that all users upgrade to this version This is the last planned release in the 2 12 stable series development now shifts towards the upcoming 2 14 series LilyPond 2 13 9 released December 12 2009 LilyPond 2 13 9 is now out From 2 13 9 onwards LilyPond is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 for code and the GNU FDL 1 3 for documentation In addition to the usual round of bugfixes this release adds a shortcut for repeated chords Please note that 2 13 is an unstable development branch normal users should continue to use 2 12 New Website October 3 2009 As you can see we have a new website design Many thanks to texi2html and CSS for being so flexible Community 132 LilyPond Report 16 September 6 2009 The LilyPond Report is back This short informal opinion column is about the LilyPond project its team its world its community Read issue 16 now LilyPond 2 13 3 July 2 2009 This unstable release contains working menus in OSX 10 5 many thanks to Christian Hitz for fixing this long standing problem This release also contains numerous other bugfixes and features such as ties with variable thickness partially dashed slurs and eyeglasses We are planning another 2 12 release in the next week or two which will include the menu fixes for OSX 10 5 Normal users may wish to wait for this release rather than using an unstable release Changes page 68 Development page 100 A LilyPond webolda
197. sion New features since 2 14 2 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 Update Due to a few Critical bugs another release candidate will be required LilyPond takes part in Google Summer of Code 2012 April 25 2012 Being a part of GNU project we are participating in Google Summer of Code program which offers students stipends for working on open source software Our contributor Janek Warchol was accepted for 2012 edition of GSoC He will be working on advanced lyrics positioning in LilyPond Release candidate 5 of 2 16 LilyPond 2 15 37 released April 19 2012 LilyPond 2 15 37 is out this is the fifth release candidate of the upcoming 2 16 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 14 2 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 16 0 release will be on 03 May 2012 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 Release candidate 4 of 2 16 LilyPond 2 15 36 released April 6 2012 LilyPond 2 15 36 is out this is the fourth release candidate of the upcoming 2 16 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 14 2 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There
198. st quality sheet music possible It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts Among the numerous improvements and changes the following might be most visible e Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather than a rectangular bounding box This greatly reduces the occurrence of unsightly large gaps e Sets and overrides can now use the syntax override Voice TextSpanner bound details left text rit instead of the previous override Voice TextSpanner bound details left text rit e Triplets with a given group length can now be written as tuplet 3 2 4 c8 cc ccc instead of times 2 3 c8 c c Nimes 2 3 c8 c c A full list of noteworthy new features is given in http lilypond org doc v2 18 Documentation changes index html Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose financial backing en abled one core developer David Kastrup to focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle LilyPond 2 18 has been brought to you by Main Developers Bertrand Bordage Trevor Daniels Colin Hall Phil Holmes Ian Hulin Reinhold Kainhofer David Kastrup Jonathan Kulp Werner Lemberg John Mandereau Patrick McCarty Joe Neeman Han Wen Nienhuys Jan Nieuwenhuizen Graham Percival Mark Polesky Neil Puttock Mike Solomon Carl Sorensen Francisco Vila Valentin Villenave Janek Warchot Core Contributors Aleksandr Andreev Fr d ric Bron Torsten
199. strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 17 released Nov 10 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 17 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate Community 120 LilyPond 2 15 16 released October 28 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 16 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 15 released October 24 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 15 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release and instead use the stable 2 14 version Please note that due to a few Critical bugs this is not the next release candidate LilyPond 2 15 14 released October 7 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 15 14 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes It is strongly recommended that normal users d
200. t This release has a lot of internal changes relating to page layout but also sports experimental fret diagram code Check out the Changes page 68 or head straight to the Old downloads page 55 May 9 2004 LilyPond 2 3 1 is out This release has many new and cool features Check out the Changes page 68 or head straight to the Old downloads page 55 May 4 2004 Help LilyPond get better and join in on LilyPond development This call for help was posted on the mailing list a month ago and we are still looking for a Release Meister Code Janitor Newsletter editor and a Writer for implementation Documentation Of course any other help is also welcome May 3 2004 LilyPond 2 2 1 has been released It fixes a handful of bugs Old downloads page 55 April 17 2004 LilyPond 2 2 0 is now available on Windows and should find its way to the Cygwin mirrors soon April 12 2004 LilyPond 2 3 0 is the first release in the 2 3 cycle The focus for 2 3 is page layout so instrumen talists can force parts to have page breaks at sane turning points This release is experimental expect things to break More info in the Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 April 8 2004 A French article on the new LilyPond release appeared on linuxfr org April 8 2004 Binaries for LilyPond 2 2 0 are available for MacOS X Slackware Mandrake and Debian Woody Old downloads page 55 April 1 2004 LilyPond 2 2 0 is out This new
201. t 25 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 25 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 24 released August 11 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 24 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 23 released July 28 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 23 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 22 released July 14 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 22 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete an
202. t hocex s li um os t n de DM a fos ws a pe O cle mens O pi a o dul cis Vir go Ma r a Introduction 11 Modern Music Contemporary composers find LilyPond well suited to displaying unusual notation Here is an excerpt from Trevor Bata s C ry for unaccompanied bass flute Carin Levine CARY Sorcery extract bass flute Trevor Ba a A 142 AAAAAAAA PP ARR PIPFIFIAO F 7 ry E LELE dj i FIFFIIFFIA fp E ff f g ff Introduction 12 Efficient flexible creation of performance materials Various performance materials can be created from the same source code This is an excerpt of Nicolas Sceaux s engraving of Handel s Giulio Cesare in full score piano vocal reduction and a violin part Giulio Cesare in Egitto Sesto Svegliatevi nel core furie d un alma offesa excerpt G F Handel Violino I Violino II SESTO Bassi Sve glia te vi nel co re fu rie d un al ma of fe sa Music engraving by LilyPond 2 18 2 www lilypond org Introduction 13 Giulio Cesare in Egitto Sesto Svegliatevi nel core furie d un alma offesa excerpt Vocal part and keyboard reduction G F Handel SESTO Sve glia te vi nel co re fu rie d un al ma of fe sa Music engraving by LilyPond 2 18 2 www lilypond org Introduction Giulio Cesare in Egitto Sesto Svegliatevi nel core furie d un alma offesa excerpt
203. t steps when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity to ensure that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location until at least one year after the last time you distribute an Opaque copy directly or through your agents or retailers of that edition to the public It is requested but not required that you contact the authors of the Document well before redistributing any large number of copies to give them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document 4 MODIFICATIONS You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above provided that you release the Modified Version under precisely this License with the Modified Version filling the role of the Document thus licensing distribution and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy of it In addition you must do these things in the Modified Version Manuals N O 90 Use in the Title Page and on the covers if any a title distinct from that of the Document and from those of previous versions which should if there were any be listed in the History section of the Document You may use the same title as a previous version if the original publisher of that version gives permission List on the Title Page as authors one or more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version together with at least five
204. tall LilyPond locally It allows trying out all the program s features using a convenient web interface LilyPondTool TE LTES CET J i i ae qi de F pana _ va m x t TRADE dA NUR V Lc E DS parari y ach C DL es R ET n TEE A UND ee er j ma Ri RT From cir papri Re di ines DU ce AE d ed in iai ii A gt ida dli a 4 La i m d r1 aad dd end de ess die dedi 8 r amp mel dud uS agnita du TP a dic chi dis a3 TE cd rh 72 ary am nae agge gta Ted prb mL dipr pora LATP at EE 54 Introduction 35 http lilypondtool organum hu Created as a plugin for the jEdit text editor LilyPond Tool is one of the most feature rich text based tools for editing LilyPond scores Its features include a Document Wizard with lyrics support to set up documents easier and embedded PDF viewer with advanced point and click support Frescobaldi rca Bri PES AE pep tig Peg tieer pihop etir gA http www frescobaldi org Frescobaldi is lightweight yet powerful LilyPond music and text editor with a built in PDF viewer It is easy to use and will run on all major operating systems GNU Linux Mac OS X and Windows Introduction 36 Denemo Beare ac bu tenta comes SH BPSSRGPSSRPRRE ir reU rmm rtm Nelle http denemo org Denemo is a graphical editor which generates LilyPond source code and also allows audio playback It allows users to view the L
205. ter e Joe Smeets created sheet music for the children s book Zing Mee Sing along by Annie M G published by Querido ISBN 9789045106205 www queridokinderenjeugdboeken nl choir rehearsal scores for the Dutch translation of Benjamin Britten s Saint Nicolas performed by Muziektheater Hollands Diep in 2011 www muziektheaterhollandsdiep nl and is currently working on the score and parts for an arrangement of Moussurgsky s Boris Godounov for wind quartet piano and percussion To be performed in 2014 again by Muziektheater Hollands Diep e A critical edition of Tommaso Traetta s Enea nel Lazio 1760 opera series with libretto by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna Santi in four parts Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Created by Luca Rossetto Casel for his Ph D Thesis e Mussorgsky s Pictures at an exhibition re orchestrated and conducted by Aur lien Bello with the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg on Oct 10 2011 and again on Apr 15 16 2012 e Kieren MacMillan composer and musical director His many recent works include Go Thy Way performed by the Salt Lake Choral Artists in March 2012 The Just Out of Reach Suite performed by the Chrysalis Duo thrafsmata performed in July 2011 by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble e Anonymous Student Compliment or Complaint by Mike Solomon winner chosen from among 172 entries from 22 countries of the 2011 Left Coast Composition Contest Other works include Norman age 1 for clarinet solo perfo
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207. there is a strict no top posting check on the gmane interface which is often incorrectly triggered by lilypond files To avoid this please add gt I m not top posting you must include the gt to the top of your bug report Step 4 Wait for a response Once your bug report has been sent to the list our Bug Squad will examine it they may ask you for more information You will be notified when the report will be added to the bug tracker Please allow up to 4 days as we have a limited number of volunteers for this task Once a bug has been added to the tracker you can comment it to add more information about it You may also mark the bug so that you automatically receive emails when any activity on the bug occurs This requires you have a google account Optional help show the desired behavior Once an issue has been added to the tracker it can be very helpful if we can see the desired output Feel free to add input code and or images possibly created with other tools which demonstrate what you think it should look like Community 99 Help us We need you Thank you for your interest in helping us we would love to see you get involved Your contribution will help a large group of users make beautifully typeset music Even working on small tasks can have a big impact taking care of them allows experienced developers work on advanced tasks instead of spending time on those simple tasks For a multi faceted project li
208. thon basic LilyPond knowledge Mentor s Reinhold Kainhofer Mike Solomon Familiarity with other scorewriters for cross testing would be a nice bonus Improve slurs and ties The default shape of slur and tie curves is often unsatisfactory Ties on enharmonic notes 1 cis des are not supported ties broken by clef or staff change aren t supported well The project includes collecting and sorting examples of bad output deciding on the intended output and writing the actual code Difficulty hard Requirements C experience with writing heuristics Recommended knowledge LilyPond knowledge aesthetic sense Mentor s Mike Solomon Adding special variant of font glyphs Adding on staff line between staff line shorter and narrower variants of some glyphs for exam ple accidentals together with a generic infrastructure to support them An example is ancient notation breve notehead coming in two variants with smaller and bigger hole Difficulty easy Requirements MetaFont C good eye for details Recommended knowledge basic LilyPond knowledge Mentor s Werner Lemberg Improve beaming Default positioning of regular cross staff broken and kneed beams should be improved Beaming should depend on context and neighbor notes see section 2 2 here If possible reduce beaming computation time Difficulty medium Requirements C experience with writing heuristics Recommended knowledge aesthetic sense Mentor s Mike
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210. tions should be resolved before any work begins Interested developers Here is a list of people who have expressed an interest in bounties Note that the amount of work done by individuals varies quite a bit throughout the years We do not guarantee that this list is up to date nor do we guarantee that the people listed here have any ability The only criteria is XYZ asked to be listed on this page Looking at the git history is a good way to determine who the most active and experienced developers are Statistics up to version 2 19 3 overall history past year past three months Interested developers David Kastrup Donations are required to let me continue my current fulltime work on LilyPond I focus on user and programmer interface design coherence implementation simpli fication documentation and debugging Development Development for LilyPond 2 18 2 Note These are unstable development versions If you have the slightest doubt about how to use or install LilyPond we urge you to use the Download page 39 and read the Manuals page 65 Release numbers There are two sets of releases for LilyPond stable releases and unstable development releases Stable versions have an even numbered minor version number e g 2 8 2 10 2 12 Develop ment versions have an odd numbered minor version number e g 2 7 2 9 2 11 Download Instructions for git and compiling are in the Contributor s Guide lily
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213. trick McCarty Joe Nee man Han Wen Nienhuys Jan Nieuwenhuizen Graham Percival Mark Polesky Neil Puttock Mike Solomon Carl Sorensen Francisco Vila Valentin Villenave Jan Warchot Programming contributors Aleksandr Andreev Sven Axelsson Peter Chubb Karin Hoethker Marc Hohl David Nalesnik Justin Ohmie Benk Pal Julien Rioux Patrick Schmidt Adam Spiers Heikki Tau rainen Piers Titus van der Torren Jan Peter Voigt Janek Warchol Documentation contributors James Lowe Pavel Roskin Alberto Simoes Stefan Weil Bug squad Colin Campbell Eluze Phil Holmes Marek Klein Ralph Palmer James Lowe Support Colin Campbell Christian Hitz Phil Holmes Translation contributors Jean Charles Malahieude Till Paala Yoshiki Sawada Old news page 107 Table of Contents Inbrot UC LIONE a cora elia aa 5 SAU UT OS sus ce aset nce ed irt gk nana 5 Examples aspire eli arie aa ipa ia T REO C OM ere ete cays stent ane 2 ne ete r E a a n 22 Back ero MERERI pela ieri 22 Productions ode eL da E eed wrens 23 REVIEWS tM PC MT 24 d ains P ErER 27 Easier editing cipria era alan 33 DOW RIGA onic cicekendicekegusticns tates dos te beiieenseiisetaeas 39 Unbiased I a oa 40 MACOS iris lisbona ii a on E EIEEE 42 Windows ee erena iti oe 48 SOUL ian nia ina a ea PI 54 Old downloads i 55 GPL C ici 55 Manuals 2222222222 Saba bll alitalia 65 GATING sacs een beeen pe e RR n RI 65 Glossaby sissi ire EL
214. ts crafted in the best traditions of classical music engraving What LilyPond does e Features page 5 What can LilyPond do e Examples page 7 I want to see some music e Freedom page 22 LilyPond is Free Software e Background page 22 Our computational aesthetics LilyPond in use e Productions page 23 Real life use of LilyPond e Reviews page 24 What do people say How LilyPond works e Text input page 27 You write music as text e Easier editing page 33 Other ways of working with LilyPond Features Elegance Excellent classical engraving b y LilyPond allows musicians to produce elegant sheet music that is easy to read Its developer community has spent thousands of hours developing powerful music engraving software that results in beautifully engraved music All of LilyPond s style settings font designs and algorithms have been inspired by the finest hand engraved music LilyPond output has the same strong balanced and elegant look as the best engraved classical scores This is further explained in our Essay page 66 Effective layout choices Spend less time with tweaking the output LilyPond gets the formatting correct right from the start It determines spacing by itself and breaks lines and pages to provide a tight and uniform layout Clashes between lyrics notes and chords are resolved and slurs and beams are sloped automatically Introduction 6 Ease of use E 1 es TE
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216. u may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 7 released November 17 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 7 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 16 1 released November 9 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 16 1 This has a number of updates to the previous stable version and should cause no problems We recommend that everybody upgrade to this version LilyPond 2 17 6 released November 3 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 6 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 5 released October 20 2012 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 5 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may
217. ual you may want to read some sections again and follow those cross references for more information Read it e Learning split HTML the manual is split between many HTML pages small download for each page e Learning big HTML read this manual as one huge HTML page large single download 3 MB e learning pdf download as a PDF file large single download 5 MB Glossary Glossary This explains musical terms and includes translations to various languages If you are not familiar with music notation or music terminology especially if you are a non native English speaker it is highly advisable to consult the glossary Read it e Music glossary split HTML the manual is split between many HTML pages small download for each page e Music glossary big HTML read this manual as one huge HTML page large single download 1 MB e music glossary pdf download as a PDF file large single download 1 5 MB Essay Essay This book gives a brief history of music typography followed by an examination of LilyPond s engraving techniques A comparison between LilyPond and other music engraving systems is given Note the detailed typographical examples are easier to analyze in the PDF version due to its higher resolution Read it e Essay split HTML the manual is split between many HTML pages small download for each page e Essay big HTML read this manual as one huge HTML page
218. ual round of bugfixes LilyPond 2 13 13 released February 13 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 13 This release is intended for developers only and fixes various problems with documentation build system as well as adding an output preview framework for our SVG backend In addition the binaries are now approximately 6 megabytes smaller LilyPond 2 13 12 released February 2 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 12 This release is intended for developers only and brings more stability and fewer bugs to the build system and Contributor s Guide LilyPond 2 13 11 released January 16 2010 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 11 This release is intended for developers only and brings a number of improvements to the build system Contributor s Guide and fixes 4 critical regressions against earlier versions LilyPond 2 13 10 released December 31 2009 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 10 This release is intended for developers only and brings a number of improvements such as predictable regression test output filenames and English names for feta filenames LilyPond 2 12 3 released December 20 2009 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 12 3 This version contains the long awaited fix for our GUI on MacOS X 10 5 and 10 6 In addition to the GUI fixes this version contains dozens of bugfixes backported from the unstable development ver
219. ude support for Linux PPC Old downloads page 55 Traduction du tutoriel en frangais December 13 2006 Fruit du travail d une quipe de traducteurs le tutoriel en francais est maintenant disponible en ligne Version 2 10 Version 2 11 Community 140 LilyPond 2 11 2 available December 12 2006 This release supports glissandi and harmonics in tablature Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 2 available December 12 2006 A new stable release of LilyPond is available Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 1 available December 4 2006 This release has improved support for horizontal spacing Bugfixes Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 1 available December 3 2006 A new stable release of LilyPond is available Bugfixes Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 11 0 available November 27 2006 This release has improved support for vertical spacing Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 10 0 available November 11 2006 A new stable release of LilyPond is available Announcement Changes page 68 Old down loads page 55 GIT repository online November 11 2006 LilyPond development has moved over its source code to GIT the fast version control system Check out our repository at gnu org LilyPond 2 9 29 available November 5 2006 This release has many more bugfixes Bugfixes Old downloads page 55
220. uencer which also has a score editor for single staff editing e humor a realtime monophonic MIDI to LilyPond converter e TuxGuitar a multitrack tablature editor and player includes a score viewer and can export to LilyPond Algorithmic code generators e Abjad a Python API for Formalized Score Control designed to help composers build up complex pieces of LilyPond notation in an iterative and incremental way e FOMUS FOrmat MUSic is a music notation tool for computer music composers It is written in the Lisp programming language and has been tested in a variety of interpreters A C port is also available e Strasheela an environment built on top of the Mozart Oz constraint programming lan guage Other programs not being actively developed e LilyKDE has been replaced by Frescobaldi and exists as LilyK DE3 for KDE 3 5 and lilypond KDEA for KDE 4 1 only e NoteEdit which imported MusicXML has been forked into NtEd and Canorus e LilyComp is a graphical note entry program acting much like a number pad which produces LilyPond notes Where now You are now ready to Download page 39 Still not convinced Many composers musicians and conductors have learned how to write music in our input format Experienced users even report that they can enter a full score in LilyPond faster than with a piano keyboard or mouse GUI Perhaps you would like to review the Features page 5 Examples page 7 or the Freedom page 22 that
221. uments and Settings Phil Desktop bad ps Converting to Documents and Settings Phil Desktop bad pdf fatal error failed files c Documents and Settings Phil Desktop bad 1y This log file is overwritten each time you compile your LilyPond file If you are viewing your file in a PDF viewer then you must close the PDF if you wish to try a new compilation as it may fail to create the new PDF while it is still being viewed P bad log Notepad File Edit Format View Help y compilation Processing C Documents and Settings Phil Desktop bad 1y Parsing Interpreting music Preprocessing graphical objects Finding the ideal number of pages Fitting music on 1 page Drawing systems Layout output to Documents and Settings Phil Desktop bad ps Converting to Documents and Settings Phil Desktop bad pdf warning gs q dNOSAFER dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS 595 28 dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS 841 89 dCompatibilityLevel 1 4 dNOPAUSE dBATCH r1200 sDEVICE pdfwrite sOutputFile Documents and Settings Phil Desktop bad pdf c setpdfwrite f Documents and Settings Phil Desktop bad ps failed 1 fatal error failed files Ci Documents and Settings Phil Desktop bad 1y Legalese All logos and product images are copyright and trademark acknowledged The four colored rectangles image is not a registered trademark It was created by Rohitbd and placed under the GNU Free Documentation Licen
222. unity 110 LilyPond 2 19 2 released February 2 2014 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 19 2 This release includes a number of enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 18 version LilyPond 2 19 1 released January 19 2014 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 19 1 This release includes a number of enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 18 version LilyPond 2 19 0 released January 5 2014 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 19 0 This release includes a number of enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 18 version LilyPond 2 17 97 released December 8 2013 We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 97 as a potential final beta release for the upcoming stable release 2 18 The developers believe this to be feature complete the documentation to be accurate and no important issues to be overlooked For
223. upgrading the syntax of your input files to the latest version see Updating files with convert ly Please test this release and report back any problems see Bug reports LilyPond 2 17 96 released November 24 2013 We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 96 as a further beta release for the upcoming stable release 2 18 The developers believe the release to be feature complete the documentation to be accurate and no important issues to be overlooked For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the latest version see Updating files with convert ly Please test this release and report back any problems see Bug reports LilyPond 2 17 95 released November 3 2013 We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 95 as beta release for the upcoming stable release 2 18 The developers are still busy finding solutions for some last minute problems but the release is supposed to be feature complete the documentation to be accurate and no important issues to be overlooked For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the latest version see Section Updating files with convert ly in Application Usage Please test this release and report back any problems see Section Bug reports in General Information LilyPond 2 17 29 released October 20 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 29 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You
224. ure braces above certain groups of notes Triplum T 5 9 Au cun ont trou ve chant par u sa ge mes a moi en doune o choi son SS Motetus Tenor ofS tty ler 6 con e 9 eo amours qui resboudist mon couralge si que m s frei fai re chan p s z P ui 8 8 de chan ter nes or ai 8 m z 2 7m Introduction 19 Educational Applications LilyPond is perfectly suited for educational purposes as well Here is an example of a simple counterpoint exercise Exercise 3 Write 8th notes against the given bass line e a AD N A Introduction 20 Popular Music It is simple to create pop lead sheets with melody lyrics chord names and fretboards In this example you see some of the predefined fretboard diagrams but these can be heavily customized to suit nearly any situation My eyes are dim I can not see I have not brought my specs with me Introduction 21 Large Projects LilyPond is excellent for large projects like operas or works for full symphony orchestra as well In addition the text based input provides greater accessibility this example was contributed by Hu Haipeng a blind composer Violent Dance For Orchestra Hu Haipeng Presto d
225. ut December 9 2005 This release has better support for MusicXML it also supports ties beams and editorial ac cidentals It also has more options for spacing Lyrics it is now possible to separately specify minimum distances for normal and hyphenated syllables These features were sponsored by Mark van den Borre and Bertalan Fodor Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 21 is out December 5 2005 Saint Nicholas brings you a MusicXML convertor for LilyPond The convertor is basic but working Check out the LilyPond Software Design pages for MusicXML features that can be sponsored LilyPond 2 7 20 is out December 2 2005 This release contains the following improvements Texts set in a TrueType font are now kerned Using the TeX no longer requires linking or dynamically opening the kpathsea library making the backend more easily usable on various systems feature sponsored by Christian Ebert of Black Trash Productions Changes page 68 Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 6 5 is out December 1 2005 This release updates the bugreporting address and reorganizes the documentation tree Old downloads page 55 LilyPond 2 7 19 is out November 26 2005 This version contains a few bugfixes and now allows the type of brackets in system start bracket hierarchies to be specified Also the horizontal alignment of rehearsal marks may be changed marks can be put on key signatures clefs time signature
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227. will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 28 released October 6 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 28 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version Community 111 LilyPond 2 17 27 released September 26 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 27 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 26 released September 8 2013 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 17 26 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements and contains some work in progress You will have access to the very latest features but some may be incomplete and you may encounter bugs and crashes If you require a stable version of Lilypond we recommend using the 2 16 version LilyPond 2 17 25 released Augus
228. y Main development team Bertrand Bordage Trevor Daniels Colin Hall Phil Holmes Ian Hulin Reinhold Kainhofer David Kastrup Jonathan Kulp Werner Lemberg John Mandereau Patrick McCarty Joe Nee man Han Wen Nienhuys Jan Nieuwenhuizen Graham Percival Mark Polesky Neil Puttock Mike Solomon Carl Sorensen Francisco Vila Valentin Villenave Jan Warchot Programming contributors Aleksandr Andreev Sven Axelsson Peter Chubb Karin Hoethker Marc Hohl David Nalesnik Justin Ohmie Benk P l Julien Rioux Patrick Schmidt Adam Spiers Heikki Tau rainen Piers Titus van der Torren Jan Peter Voigt Janek Warchol Documentation contributors James Lowe Pavel Roskin Alberto Simoes Stefan Weil Bug squad Colin Campbell Eluze Phil Holmes Marek Klein Ralph Palmer James Lowe Support Colin Campbell Christian Hitz Phil Holmes Translation contributors Jean Charles Malahieude Till Paala Yoshiki Sawada LilyPond 2 18 1 February 16 2014 We have released updated manuals for LilyPond s stable version 2 18 The manuals are now for 2 18 1 and have a number of updates and improvements over 2 18 0 There will be a further release of 2 18 in the future 2 18 2 and this will include the updates to the manuals as well as some minor enhancements to the LilyPond core functionality To summarise the current situation stable LilyPond application 2 18 0 stable LilyPond manuals 2 18 1 development for both 2 19 2 Comm
229. y to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 60 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes Please note that this is not the next release candidate due to a few remaining Critical bugs Linux Journal Magazine article April 2011 Linux Magazine publishes an article in the May 2011 issue titled Projects on the Move It is an introduction to MuseScore LilyPond and Chordii Author Carla Schroder states LilyPond is driven from the command line but don t let the lack of a GUI scare you away LilyPond is user friendly and easy to learn and provides a hands on example Community 124 LilyPond 2 13 59 released April 10 2011 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2 13 59 This release contains the usual number of bugfixes Please note that this is not the next release candidate due to a few remaining Critical bugs Release candidate 6 of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 58 released April 7 2011 LilyPond 2 13 58 is out this is the sixth release candidate of the upcoming 2 14 stable release All users are invited to experiment with this version New features since 2 12 3 are listed in the Changes manual on the website section about Development page 100 There are no known Critical issues with this release If no Critical bugs are found then the official 2 14 0 release will be on April 14 2011 If you discover any problems please send us Bug reports page 97 Release candidate 5 of 2 14 LilyPond 2 13 57 release
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231. yPond in those repositories may be significantly older than the current stable version If you wish to use our generic packages please check that your LilyPond editor is using the correct version of lilypond See Easier editing page 33 Generic Packages Download gt GNU Linux x86 LilyPond 2 19 3 1 if in doubt use this GNU Linux 64 LilyPond 2 18 2 1 gt gt GNU Linux PPC LilyPond 2 18 2 1 FreeBSD i386 LilyPond 2 18 2 1 FreeBSD amd64 LilyPond 2 18 2 1 Install In the shell type cd PATH TO DOWNLOAD DIRECTORY sh lilypond 2 18 2 0S TYPE sh Download Uninstall In the shell type uninstall lilypond Help In the shell type sh lilypond 2 18 2 0S TYPE sh help Distribution specific Packages Please use your distribution s package manager to install or upgrade to these versions e f Fedora LilyPond 2 14 2 a of at Ubuntu LilyPond 2 14 2 slack e Slackware LilyPond 2 14 2 9 gt Debian LilyPond 2 12 3 Suse openSUSE LilyPond 2 12 3 Compiling a file Note These instructions assume that you are familiar with command line programs If you are using any of the programs described in Section Easier editing in General Information please consult the documenta tion for those programs if you have any problems compiling a file Step 1 Create your 1y file Create a text file called test 1y and enter version 2 18 2 t c e

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