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diff --git a/print/lilypond/DESCR b/print/lilypond/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..eae30c78f67 --- /dev/null +++ b/print/lilypond/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ + LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a +high level description file as input. It excels at typesetting classical +music, but you can also print pop-songs. With LilyPond we hope to make music +publication software available to anyone on the internet. + + The input to LilyPond is plain text. So, you can use your favorite text +editor to enter it, you can put it in mail or embed it in an article like +this: + + \relative c'' { \key c \minor; r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4 } + + The output looks very good: the font and the layout algorithms were inspired +by engraved music, so you can expect that same clear and elegant look from +your LilyPond output. And if you don't like the looks, you can tweak almost +everything. + + The program also has limited MIDI functionality: you can write MIDI files +with lilypond, and we have a simple MIDI to lilypond conversion tool, midi2ly. +Conversion tools for PMX, MUP, ABC, Finale and Musedata are also included. + + LilyPond is free software. It is licensed under GNU General Public License, +so you can use, modify and redistribute the program with almost no +restrictions. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project. |