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Lilypond

Produces sheet music using a high level descriptive file as input. It excels at typesetting classical music, but you can also use it for pop music.

Last updated 13 Jan, 2009

User level: Beginner

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GPLv2

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About

Leadership

Adrian Mariano - Contributor
Alexandre Oliva - Contributor
Roy Tankin - Contributor
Mats Bengtsson - Contributor
Jan Nieuwenhuizen - Maintainer
Han-Wen Nienhuys - Maintainer

Requirements

TeX (Use Requirement)
xdvi and GhostScript 8.15 or later (Use Requirement)
GUILE 1.3.4 or newer (Use Requirement)
EGCS 1.1 or newer or gcc 2.95.2 or newer (Build Prerequisite)
Python 1.5 (Build Prerequisite)
Guile 1.3.4 (Build Prerequisite)
GNU make (Build Prerequisite)
flex (v. 2.5.4 or newer) (Build Prerequisite)
bison (v. 1.25 or newer) (Build Prerequisite)
TeX (Build Prerequisite)

Related Projects

DansTuner, Denemo, MusiXTeX, Note Editor, Rosegarden, Rumor, TTRM, abc2ps

Subprograms

midi2ly, abc2ly, mup2ly

Versions

2.13.7

Released: 5 Nov, 2009
Code Maturity: Developmental
Source Archive: http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/source/...
Licenses: GPLv2
Interfaces: Command Line

2.11.25

Released: 21 May, 2007
Code Maturity: Developmental
Source Archive: http://lilypond.org/download/sources/v2.11/lily...
Licenses: GPLv2
Interfaces: Command Line

2.12 "Rune"

Released: 13 Jan, 2009
Code Maturity: Stable
Source Archive: http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binarie...
Licenses: GPLv2
Interfaces: Command Line

User Community and Support

User tutorial available in HTML format from http://www.lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Tutorial.html; User reference manual available in HTML format from http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/lilypond.html

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