LILYPOND 1.6.0 - Print music beautifully

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font engraving 



WHAT IS LilyPond?

LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter.  LilyPond produces
beautiful sheet music using a description file as input. Documentation
and examples can be found on

        http://www.lilypond.org/

This release is focused on improved output quality: some pieces of
output now have publication quality. To achieve this, we have
completely overhauled the spacing engine, the font and the beaming
code.

Version 1.6 also adds support for drum notation, figured bass,
tablature and (limited) ancient notation, piano notation.



NEW SINCE 1.4

* Support for figured bass and tablature.

* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
now.

* Completely revised and improved music font.

* Completely rewritten MIDI import support.

* Completely rewritten grace note support. Practically speaking this means
that grace notes can be slurred to normal normal notes.

* Improved accidental handling and formatting: styles for producing
cautionaries may vary, and complex collisions between accidentals of a
chord are handled much better.

* Better spacing: both globally and locally. This includes subtle
details like optical stem spacing.

* More support for ancient notation: mensural ligatures, ambitus
(pitch range) of voices, more shapes, etc.

* More support for piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios,
arpeggio brackets.

* Easier music polyphonic music entry.

* More extensibility, many speedups and bugfixes

* The manual has been thoroughly revised.

* Development is now hosted at http://savannah.gnu.org, and sources
can be downloaded through anonymous CVS.

* Support for windows: LilyPond is part of the cygwin distribution,
which comes with a user-friendly installer.



DOWNLOAD

Sources for this project are available at

        ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/v1.6/
        ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/v1.6/

Packages for Red Hat Linux 7.x/i386 are available from 

        ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/binaries/RedHat-7.x
        ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/binaries/RedHat-7.x

A Debian GNU/Linux package for unstable should be available shortly
through apt-get.

A package for Windows should be available shortly though Cygwin's
setup.exe (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe).

A package for MacOS X should be available though fink shortly
(http://fink.sourceforge.net).

For other UNIX/Linux distributions (SuSE, Mandrake, *BSD, etc),
ask your vendor or compile from source.



SPECIAL THANKS TO

Heinz Stolba
James Ingram
Mats Bengtsson
Nicola Bernardini
Rune Zedeler


THANKS

To people sending improvements and bugreports:



Alexandre Beneteau
Amelie Zapf
Atro Tossavainen
Bas Wassink
Boros Andr