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authorHan-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>1996-12-21 00:03:06 +0100
committerHan-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>1996-12-21 00:03:06 +0100
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@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-*-text-*-
+last update: 96/12/12, 0.0.16
+
INTRODUCTION
This is a beta version of LilyPond (a music typesetter). Please send
@@ -13,16 +15,26 @@ LilyPond is updated very frequently, the latest version is always available at:
PREREQUISITES
-TeX, the MusixTeX fonts, g++ > v2.7. The "flower" library, which
-should be available from the same source you got this from. The
-Makefile uses perl for trivial operation, but you could tinker with it
-to use sed or awk.
+Compilation:
+
+ - Unix (any decent Linux distrib is fine)
+ - GNU C++ v2.7 or better
+ - GNU make.
+ - flex
+ - bison/yacc
+ - The "flower" library
+ - which should be available from the same source you got this from.
+
+Operation:
+
+ - TeX
+ - the MusixTeX fonts
+
+The Makefile uses perl for trivial
+operations, and you could tinker with it to use sed or awk.
COMPILING
-You will need GNU C++ v2.7 or better and GNU make. If you actually
-want to use this, you'd better use the "speedy" compilation flags in
-the Makefile.
Do:
tar zxf flower-1.11.9.tar.gz
@@ -32,7 +44,11 @@ Do:
cd lilypond-1.2.13
make
-why G++ >= 2.7? LilyPond & flower lib uses builtin bool and typeof.
+why G++ >= 2.7? LilyPond & flower lib uses:
+
+ builtin bool
+ typeof
+ operator <?, operator >?
USING
@@ -45,23 +61,22 @@ what I type in my xterm:
This is what the output looks like over here.
-hw:~/musix/spacer$ lilypond kortjakje.ly
-LilyPond version 0.0.9 compiled on Nov 7 1996 at 23:38:21
-Parsing ... [kortjakje.ly]
-Processing ... Calculating ...
+hw:~/musix/spacer$ lilypond maartje.ly
+LilyPond version 0.0.16 compiled on Dec 11 1996 at 13:54:27
+Parsing ... [symbol.ini][maartje.ly]
+Processing ... Calculating ... Postprocessing ...
output to lelie.uit...
hw:~/musix/spacer$ tex test
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
(test.tex
Hyphenation patterns for english, dutch, loaded.
-(lilyponddefs.tex) (lelie.uit) [1] )
-Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 3076 bytes).
+(lilyponddefs.tex) (lelie.uit) [1] [2] )
+Output written on test.dvi (2 pages, 8072 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.
hw:~/musix/spacer$ xdvi test&
-[1] 1667
-
+[1] 1468
PROBLEMS
@@ -74,8 +89,7 @@ HOW DOES IT WORK
* Use The Source, Luke. If you don't know C++, you can try editing
.dstreamrc for copious debugging output. (use -d)
-* the subdir Documentation/ contains some in depth matter on LilyPond
-algorithms
+* the subdir Documentation/ contains some more-in-depth matter on LilyPond
* The source is commented in the DOC++ style.
Check out doc++ at