About:
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.

Author:
hanwen [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.71/10.00 (11 votes)

Homepage:
http://lilypond.org/web/
Tar/GZ:
http://lilypond.org/web/download/
Changelog:
http://lilypond.org/[..]oc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html
Debian package:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lilypond
OS X package:
http://lilypond.org/web/install/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=summary
Mailing list archive:
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C++, Python, Scheme
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Sound/Audio, Printing, Text Processing :: Markup

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	2.10.0	13-Nov-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	2.1.2	17-Dec-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• The Book of Linux Music and Sound
  by jeff covey , in Book Reviews
  Sat, May 18th 2002 00:00
  
• Sound and Music Software
  by Dave Phillips , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Dec 15th 2001 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] serious craftsmanship
by Ben Crowell - Mar 14th 2004 19:55:49

This is the kind of software project that takes some serious craftsmanship to create, and that's exactly what the authors have put into it. Bravo!

My only real complaint is that the language has not stayed very stable, so some input files on the Mutopia site will no longer compile. There is apparently a conversion script for backward compatibility, but it's not well advertised. It would be nice to know how much one can depend on the language to stay the some from now on.

Prospective users who don't want to learn to type in music using the Lilypond language may want to check out the Rosegarden project, which is a GUI front-end for Lilypond.

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