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 âyâ denotes a stable version. For development versions âyâ is odd. 1.2 Downloading =============== The primary download site for sourcecode is <http://lilypond.org/downloads/>. 1.3 Compilation =============== For compiling and running LilyPond see the installation instructions. These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond, as âlilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txtâ. They are also available on the web at <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/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 âBuilding documentationâ 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 (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond) is a low-volume list for information on LilyPond project. This list is moderated; ask David R. Linn <drl@gnu.org> or Han-Wen <hanwen@xs4all.nl> to send announcements for this list. ⢠lilypond-devel@gnu.org (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel) for discussions about developing LilyPond, in particular the unstable series. ⢠lilypond-user@gnu.org (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user) for discussions about using LilyPond, in particular the stable series. ⢠bug-lilypond@gnu.org (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond) for sending bugreports. ⢠lilypond-auto@gnu.org (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-auto) for notifications from the issue tracking systems of LilyPond. You can search the lists from our searching facilities (http://lilypond.org/search). 1.6 Bugs ======== Send bug reports to <bug-lilypond@gnu.org>. For help and questions use <lilypond-user@gnu.org>.