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Announcing
LILYPOND
The Music Typesetter
Do you pine for the nice days of Linux 0.95, when men were men and
wrote their own applications? Are you without a nice project and just
dying to cut your teeth into a bleeding edge application you can
modify for your needs. Do you find it frustrating that everything
works in LaTeX? No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working?
Then this post might be just for you!
I have been working very hard on a music typesetting system (called
LilyPond) the past half year, and I finally think it is ready to be
used and hacked at by a larger public than me and my co-developer.
Sources for this project are on
ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/
detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at:
http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
(it is somewhat lousy, but I have more important things to do).
[DETAILED DESCRIPTION]
WHAT IS LILYPOND
Technically it is a preprocessor which generates TeX
(or LaTeX) output which contains information to typeset a musical
score. Practically it is a typesetter, which only uses TeX as an
output medium. (this is handy because there exist music fonts for TeX)
As a bonus, you can also output a MIDI file of what you typed.
The input is a script file which is read. The script file is a "music
definition", ie, you type the melody as if it is read out loud
WHAT IS NEEDED?
for compilation you need
Unix. (Win32 is known to work, too)
GNU C++ v2.7 or better, with libg++ installed.
GNU make.
Flex (2.5.1 or better).
Bison.
for running you need
TeX
The MusixTeX fonts. (I use those in MusixTeX T.59)
FEATURES
ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
customizable notenames
MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.
MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.
Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have a different meters.
Multiple voices within one staff; beams optionally shared between
voices. (well, more than 2 voices won't look pretty --yet.) Multiple
scores within one input file. Each score is output to a different
file.
Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text), triplets,
general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition
dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style) clef changes, meter
changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars
[Kudos to FSF, all linux hackers, and --of course-- especially
GrandMaster Linus T, for the OS and The Announce :-]
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@stack.nl>
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jan@digicash.com>
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