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

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
This is a release candidate for the pending release of the new stable branch, 1.8. Relative to 1.6, it has completely revamped support for chordnames, text formatting, ancient notation, and scripted music manipulation. Further new features include zigzag style glissandi, horizontal chord fingerings, metronome marks, beat grouping marks, cluster notation, and text on whole measure rests.

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/
Tar/GZ:
http://lilypond.org/web/devel/
Changelog:
http://savannah.gnu.org/[..]-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/lilypond/ChangeLog
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/lilypond
Mailing list archive:
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

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)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.1.2	Major feature enhancements	17-Dec-2003 19:05
1.9.7	Minor feature enhancements	18-Sep-2003 13:39
1.9.5	Minor feature enhancements	11-Sep-2003 13:37
1.9.3	Minor feature enhancements	31-Aug-2003 03:00
1.9.0	Major feature enhancements	26-Aug-2003 00:00
1.7.27	Major feature enhancements	21-Jul-2003 14:25
1.7.9	Major bugfixes	06-Dec-2002 18:46
1.7.0	Major feature enhancements	21-Sep-2002 19:45
1.5.6	Minor bugfixes	15-Aug-2001 15:52

 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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