About:
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
A new page breaking algorithm will tune both horizontal and vertical spacing. Hence, page turns will only fall at rests or places that you mark explicitly. Internal rewrites were done that make it possible to output a much simpler intermediate format. In the long term, this will enable other programs to read LilyPond music. The release also includes support for falls and doits, dashed barlines, al niente hairpins, right hand fingerings for guitar, better formatting of tied chords, automatic beaming, and nested tuplets.

Author:
hanwen [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.71/10.00 (11 votes)

Homepage:
http://lilypond.org/web/
Tar/GZ:
http://lilypond.org/web/download/
Changelog:
http://lilypond.org/[..]oc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html
Debian package:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lilypond
OS X package:
http://lilypond.org/web/install/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=summary
Mailing list archive:
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C++, Python, Scheme
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Sound/Audio, Printing, Text Processing :: Markup

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	2.10.0	13-Nov-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	2.1.2	17-Dec-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.10.0	Major feature enhancements	13-Nov-2006 15:38
2.8.0	Major feature enhancements	29-Mar-2006 13:23
2.6.5	Minor bugfixes	08-Dec-2005 10:42
2.6.0	Major feature enhancements	27-Jun-2005 15:06
2.4	Major feature enhancements	31-Oct-2004 02:33
2.2	Major feature enhancements	01-Apr-2004 13:27
2.0.0	Major feature enhancements	24-Sep-2003 18:16
1.8.2	Minor bugfixes	10-Sep-2003 00:05
1.8.1	Minor bugfixes	22-Aug-2003 12:56
1.8.0	Major feature enhancements	07-Aug-2003 11:47

 Articles referencing this project

• The Book of Linux Music and Sound
  by jeff covey , in Book Reviews
  Sat, May 18th 2002 00:00
  
• Sound and Music Software
  by Dave Phillips , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Dec 15th 2001 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] serious craftsmanship
by Ben Crowell - Mar 14th 2004 19:55:49

This is the kind of software project that takes some serious craftsmanship to create, and that's exactly what the authors have put into it. Bravo!

My only real complaint is that the language has not stayed very stable, so some input files on the Mutopia site will no longer compile. There is apparently a conversion script for backward compatibility, but it's not well advertised. It would be nice to know how much one can depend on the language to stay the some from now on.

Prospective users who don't want to learn to type in music using the Lilypond language may want to check out the Rosegarden project, which is a GUI front-end for Lilypond.

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