Toplevel README
1. Toplevel README
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
1.1 Versioning
LilyPond uses a versioning scheme that easily identifies stable and development releases. In a version "x.y.z", an even second number ’y’ denotes a stable version. For development versions ’y’ is odd.
1.2 Downloading
The primary download site for sourcecode is http://lilypond.org/download/.
1.3 Compilation
For compiling and running LilyPond see the installation instructions. These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond, as ‘lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt’. They are also available on the web at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.html.
1.4 Documentation
The documentation is available online at http://lilypond.org/doc/.
You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under ‘Building documentation’ in the installation instructions.
1.5 Comments
Send your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. to the mailing list, not to us personally.
We have the following mailing lists:
- info-lilypond@gnu.org is a low-volume list for information on LilyPond project. This list is moderated; ask David R. Linn or Han-Wen to send announcements for this list.
- lilypond-devel@gnu.org for discussions about developing LilyPond, in particular the unstable series.
- lilypond-user@gnu.org for discussions about using LilyPond, in particular the stable series.
- bug-lilypond@gnu.org for sending bugreports.
- lilypond-cvs@gnu.org for log files from the autobuild.
You can search the lists from our searching facilities.
1.6 Bugs
Send bug reports to bug-lilypond@gnu.org. For help and questions use lilypond-user@gnu.org.
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