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 'y' denotes a stable version. For development versions 'y' is odd.

1.2 Downloading

The primary download site for sourcecode is http://lilypond.org/download/.

1.3 Compilation

For compiling and running LilyPond see the installation instructions. These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond, as lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt. They are also available on the web at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/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 `Building documentation' 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:

You can search the lists from our searching facilities.

1.6 Bugs

Send bug reports to bug-lilypond@gnu.org. For help and questions use lilypond-user@gnu.org.

This page is for LilyPond-2.11.58 (development-branch).

Report errors to http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs.

Your suggestions for the documentation are welcome.