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Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font engraving 
Subject: GNU LilyPond 1.2 released - The Music Typesetter

GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter


WHAT IS LilyPond?

LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter.

LilyPond produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description
file as input.


BROWSE

Documentation and examples can be found on

	http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/

	
DOWNLOAD

Sources for this project are on

	ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/ (Europe)
	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/

Prepackaged i386 and PPC packages for both Debian and RedHat GNU are
also available.


WHAT'S NEW?

* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
  memory footprint and more flexible code.

* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
  (default output still to plain TeX).

* Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.

* Font: now available as scalable PostScript.  New glyphs: time
  signature, more note heads.

* Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
  repeats, automatic staff switching, chordnames, automatic Lyrics
  durations.
  
* Grace notes, volta brackets, multiple styles for note heads and 
  time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders, cross staff 
  beaming and slurring.
  
* --safe option for the paranoid.

* More elegant spacing.  Text is spaced exactly.

* Lots of bugfixes.