LilyPond(1)

NAME
LilyPond - the GNU Music Typesetter

SYNOPSIS
lilypond [OPTION]... [MUDELA-FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.

OPTIONS

-f,--format=
    Output format for sheet music. Choices are tex (for TeX output), ps (for PostScript) and scm (for GUILE)

-I,--include=
    add FILE to the search path for input files.

-m,--midi
    Disable TeX output. If you have a \midi definition, it will do the midi output only.

-M,--dependencies
    Also output rules to be included in Makefile.

-d,--debug
    Turn debugging info on. GNU LilyPond reads the file .dstreamrc, which lists what functions and classes may produce copious debugging output.

-s,--safe
    Disallow untrusted \include directives, backslashes in code and named output.

-t,--test
    Switch on any experimental features. Not for general public use.

-w,--warranty
    Show the warranty with which GNU LilyPond comes. (It comes with NO WARRANTY!)

-o,--output=FILE
    Set the default output file to FILE.

-h,--help
    Show a summary of usage.

-i,--init=FILE
    Set init file to FILE (default: init.ly).

--include, -I=DIRECTORY
    Add DIRECTORY to the search path for input files.

--ignore-version, -V
    Make the incompatible mudela version warning non-fatal.

FEATURES

This is an overview of the features that GNU LilyPond supports. For details on how to use them, you should consult the Mudela tutorial, which is included with the package.

o   ASCII script input, with identifiers (for music reuse), customizable notenames, customisable fontset.

o   MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.

o   MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.

o   Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have different time signatures.

o   Beams, slurs, ties, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text) triplets, general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition, dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style).

o   Multiple voices within one staff; beams optionally shared between voices. Up to four voices is handled cleanly.

o   Multiple scores within one input file. Each score is output to a different file.

o   Clef changes, meter changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars.

DISCLAIMER

GNU LilyPond is copyright 1996-1999 by its authors. GNU LilyPond is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. GNU LilyPond is provided without any warranty what so ever. GNU LilyPond may be freely distributed. For further information consult the GNU General Public License, from the file COPYING.

PROBLEMS

There is an extensive list of todoes and bugs. See the file TODO distributed with the sources. If you have a problem you should try to find out

o   If the bug has been fixed in a newer release.

o   If the bug has been found earlier, consult TODO and BUGS.

If you have found a bug, then we would appreciate it if you sent a bugreport.

o   Send a copy of the input which causes the error.

o   Send a description of the platform you use.

o   Send a description of the LilyPond version you use (with compile/configure options please).

o   Send a description of the bug itself.

o   Send it to bug-gnu-music@gnu.org; you don't have to be subscribed to this mailinglist.

FILES

init.ly
    The initialisation file with symbol tables etc. It includes files from the directory PREFIX/share/lilypond/ly/. (PREFIX typically is /usr/local )

environment

LILYINCLUDE
    additional directories for finding lilypond data. The format is like the format of PATH.

LILYPREFIX
    [FIXME]

LANG
    selects the language for the warning messages of LilyPond.

BUGS

Lots of them. See TODO and BUGS

SEE ALSO

LilyPond comes with various other documentation files. They are included in the source package.

A further source for information is the website, which can be found at http://www.lilypond.org/. The website contains on-line versions of the documentation

GNU LilyPond is updated very frequently, the latest version is always available at: ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond. This FTP site is mirrored at a number of sites; consult the project web pages for information about mirrors.

For programs which are part of the GNU music project, the following mailing list have been setup:

info-gnu-music@gnu.org
    For information on the GNU Music project, to subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to info-gnu-music-request@gnu.org

help-gnu-music@gnu.org
    For help with programs from the GNU music project. To subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to help-gnu-music-request@gnu.org

bug-gnu-music@gnu.org
    If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list. If you want to read all bugreports, you should subscribe to this list. To subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to bug-gnu-music-request@gnu.org

gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org
    For discussions concerning the GNU Music project, to subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to gnu-music-discuss-request@gnu.org

Announces of new versions will be sent to info-gnu-music and gnu-music-discuss.

REMARKS

GNU LilyPond has no connection with the music package Rosegarden, other than the names being similar :-)

AUTHOR

o   Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen

o   Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien

Please consult the documentation file AUTHORS for more detailed information, and small contributions.