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It assumes that readers are familiar with the concepts in the Learning Manual. <ul> <li><a name="index-Musical-notation-20"></a><a href="../lilypond/Musical-notation.html#Musical-notation">Musical notation</a>: discusses topics grouped by notation construct. This section gives details about basic notation that will be useful in almost any notation project. <li><a name="index-Specialist-notation-21"></a><a href="../lilypond/Specialist-notation.html#Specialist-notation">Specialist notation</a>: discusses topics grouped by notation construct. This section gives details about special notation that will only be useful for particular instrument (or vocal) groups. <li><a name="index-General-input-and-output-22"></a><a href="../lilypond/General-input-and-output.html#General-input-and-output">General input and output</a>: discusses general information about LilyPond input files and controlling output. <li><a name="index-Spacing-issues-23"></a><a href="../lilypond/Spacing-issues.html#Spacing-issues">Spacing issues</a>: discusses issues which affect the global output, such as selecting paper size or specifying page breaks. <li><a name="index-Changing-defaults-24"></a><a href="../lilypond/Changing-defaults.html#Changing-defaults">Changing defaults</a>: explains how to tweak LilyPond to produce exactly the notation you want. <li><a name="index-Interfaces-for-programmers-25"></a><a href="../lilypond/Interfaces-for-programmers.html#Interfaces-for-programmers">Interfaces for programmers</a>: explains how to create music functions with scheme. </ul> <p>The Notation Reference also contains appendices with useful reference charts. <ul> <li><a name="index-Literature-list-26"></a><a href="../lilypond/Literature-list.html#Literature-list">Literature list</a>: contains a set of useful reference books for those who wish to know more on notation and engraving. <li><a name="index-Notation-manual-tables-27"></a><a href="../lilypond/Notation-manual-tables.html#Notation-manual-tables">Notation manual tables</a>: are a set of tables showing the chord names, MIDI instruments, a list of color names, and the Feta font. <li><a name="index-Cheat-sheet-28"></a><a href="../lilypond/Cheat-sheet.html#Cheat-sheet">Cheat sheet</a>: is a handy reference of the most common LilyPond commands. <li><a name="index-LilyPond-command-index-29"></a><a href="../lilypond/LilyPond-command-index.html#LilyPond-command-index">LilyPond command index</a>: an index of all LilyPond <code>\commands</code>. <li><a name="index-LilyPond-index-30"></a><a href="../lilypond/LilyPond-index.html#LilyPond-index">LilyPond index</a>: a complete index. </ul> <!-- footer_tag --><br><hr> <div class="node"> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="About-the-Application-Usage.html#About-the-Application-Usage">About the Application Usage</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="About-the-Music-Glossary.html#About-the-Music-Glossary">About the Music Glossary</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="About-the-documentation.html#About-the-documentation">About the documentation</a> </div> <div style="background-color: #e8ffe8; padding: 2; border: #c0ffc0 1px solid;"> <p> <font size="-1"> This page is for LilyPond-2.11.57 (development-branch). <br> <address> Report errors to <a href="http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs">http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs</a>. </address> <br> Your <a href="http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding">suggestions for the documentation</a> are welcome. </font> </p> </div> <P> Other languages: <a href="About-the-Notation-Reference.fr.html">français</a>, <a href="About-the-Notation-Reference.es.html">español</a>, <a href="About-the-Notation-Reference.de.html">deutsch</a>. <BR> </P> </BODY></html>