LilyPond – Music notation for everyone
LilyPond
LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. LilyPond is free
software and part of the GNU Project.
Beautiful Sheet Music
LilyPond is a powerful and flexible tool for engraving tasks of
all kinds, for example classical music (like the example above by J.S.
Bach), complex notation, early music, modern music, tablature,
vocal music, lead sheets, educational materials, large
orchestral projects, customized output, and even Schenker graphs.
Browse our gallery of Examples and be inspired!
Introduction
Our Goal
LilyPond came about when two musicians wanted to go beyond the
soulless look of computer-printed sheet music. Musicians prefer
reading beautiful music, so why couldn’t programmers write
software to produce elegant printed parts?
The result is a program that creates beautiful sheet music
following the best traditions of classical music engraving.
It takes care of the details of layout programmatically,
allowing composers, transcribers and publishers to focus
on the music instead of improving their software’s
default output. Performers will get parts that let them
concentrate on playing music instead of reading it.
Features
Excellent classical engraving
LilyPond allows musicians to produce elegant sheet music that is
easy to read. Its developer community has spent thousands of hours
developing powerful music engraving software that results in beautifully
engraved music. All of LilyPond’s style settings, font designs and
algorithms have been inspired by the finest hand-engraved music.
LilyPond output has the same strong, balanced and elegant look as the
best-engraved classical scores. This is further explained in our
Essay.
Text input
Everything is explicit
LilyPond processes text input, which contains all information
about the content of your score and can easily be read
by any human or another program. There are no obscure
settings hidden behind menu items and binary file storage.
Read more about this concept on Text input.
Tweaks are robust and traceable
If you have to change anything in the layout this tweak will
also be explicitly visible in the input file in human-readable
form, so you will always be able to retrace what you’ve done.
If you should accidentally break anything you can easily revert
or modify any decision without being at the mercy of an
Undo function.
Text files are failure- and future-proof
Text files are very robust against file corruption. And as they are
human-readable, you will always be able to interpret them even if
you don’t have access to the programs that created them.
Manage your scores with version control
Text files are applicable to be managed by version control. Go
for it and experience infinite and selective undo/redo mechanisms
and the full development history of your scores. Version control
may also open up new (collaborative) workflows for you.
Usability
Effective layout choices
Spend less time with tweaking the output; LilyPond gets the
formatting correct right from the start. It determines spacing by
itself, and breaks lines and pages to provide a tight and uniform
layout. Clashes between lyrics, notes, and chords are resolved
and slurs and beams are sloped, automatically!
Mix music and text
Put fragments of music into texts without cutting and pasting
pictures. Integrate music into LaTeX or HTML seamlessly, or add
music to OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice with
OOoLilyPond.
Plugins are also available to allow LilyPond code in various blogs and
wikis, making online collaboration possible.
Accessibility
Text-based input also makes score-writing possible for users with
severe physical disabilities. Dexterity-impaired users who are
unable to type or control a computer mouse can use
speech-recognition software to edit LilyPond files. Even users
who are totally blind can use screen-reading software to write
LilyPond files – an impossible task in graphical-based
score-writing programs.
You can see a spectacular score on Examples.
Editor diversity
Several developers, themselves active LilyPond users,
have written tools specifically aimed at making the process of editing
LilyPond files faster and more effective; you are not tied to
a single user interface but can use different tools for different tasks.
You can even use a full-fledged LilyPond editor at home and use your
mobile phone’s notepad app to edit the files on the go. For some examples,
see Easier editing.
Extensible design
Easy management of style sheets
All layout settings can be changed to suit your personal typographical
taste. So you can easily write style sheets that change every aspect of
LilyPond scores’ default appearance. As these are also written as text
and can be stored in separate files you can simply switch between two
stylesheets to produce scores with a completely different appearance or
layout.
You want to print a score on A4 paper and project it with a beamer,
one system per page? LilyPond’s layout engine will effortlessly produce
both from the same input.
Add your own functions
If that still is not enough, there is always the built-in
scripting language Scheme, which can access LilyPond’s layout
engine at the same level as LilyPond itself does, making it
a very powerful tool.
Settings, variables and functions are all documented in the
comprehensive program reference manual.
Process scores programmatically
LilyPond input files can fully be edited or even generated by programs
and scripts. This can for example be used for algorithmical composition.
But you can also access the musical content for analysis, or manage
input fragments in a database. There are no limitations except your
imagination.
Create new tools using LilyPond
As LilyPond isn’t a monolithic GUI program but a command line tool it
can be used from within other applications too. This way it is possible
to equip tools like, e.g., web applications with LilyPond’s engraving
power. There already exist several online tools using LilyPond.
Environment
Excellent support
LilyPond runs on all popular platforms: GNU/Linux, MacOS X, and
Windows. LilyPond comes with extensive documentation and hundreds
of example files. There is an active user community answering
questions on the lilypond-user mailing list, offering you friendly
help. The response time is usually very short, and often brillant
solutions to reported problems are developed. Thanks to the close
interaction with the development team such solutions are regularly
included in LilyPond itself.
Read more in Community.
Free software
LilyPond can be downloaded free of charge! Yep - It’s free. Get
it from the download page.
It’s also free (as in “speech”) software. It comes with source
code, and permission to change and copy it. So, are you irritated
by a bug, or yearning for a feature? Simply add it yourself, or
pay someone else to do it.
Read more on Freedom.
Where now?
Still not convinced? Look at some specific Examples. If you’ve
already decided to try LilyPond, first read about our
Text input.
Examples
Beautiful Examples
LilyPond is a powerful and flexible tool for engraving tasks of
all kinds. Please browse our gallery of examples and be inspired!
Classical Music
This organ work by J.S. Bach is a fairly typical engraving project
in LilyPond.
Complex Notation
This example from Goyescas by Enrique Granados shows some
of the more advanced features of typesetting, including kneed
beams, cross-staff stems, and voice-follow lines.
Early Music
LilyPond also supports various types of ancient notation, such
as this passage of Gregorian chant.
Modern Music
Contemporary composers find LilyPond well-suited to displaying
unusual notation. Here is an excerpt from Trevor Bača’s
Čáry, for unaccompanied bass flute.
Efficient, flexible creation of performance materials
Various performance materials can be created from the same source
code. This is an excerpt of Nicolas Sceaux’s engraving of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, in
full score, piano-vocal reduction, and a violin part.
Tablature
LilyPond supports tablature notation, which can be customized to
suit any instrument that reads from tablature. The tablature
staff is generated automatically from notes entered for the 5-line
staff.
Vocal Music
LilyPond is excellent for vocal music of all kinds, from sacred
hymns to opera. Here is a medieval motet with slightly unusual
requirements. The tenor voice is written in a different meter
than the others, but must line up as if it were in the same meter.
LilyPond handles this most elegantly. Note also the incipits with
Vaticana style clefs, the slashed stems indicating plicated notes,
and the ligature braces above certain groups of notes.
Lead Sheets
It is simple to create lead sheets with melody, lyrics,
chord names, and fretboards. In this example you see some of the
predefined fretboard diagrams, but these can be heavily customized
to suit nearly any situation.
Educational Applications
LilyPond is perfectly suited for educational purposes as well.
Here is an example of a simple counterpoint exercise.
Large Projects
LilyPond is excellent for large projects like operas or works for
full symphony orchestra, as well. In addition, the text-based
input provides greater accessibility – this example was
contributed by Hu Haipeng, a blind composer.
Customized Output
A short excerpt from Stockhausen’s Klavierstück II to demonstrate
LilyPond’s ability to provide customised output.
Schenker Graphs
Standard output can be modified heavily. Here is an impressive
Schenkerian analysis, created by Kris Schaffer, for an article
in Linux Journal.
The colors have been added for better visibility.
Where now?
Still not convinced? LilyPond is Free software, granting you
Freedom. If you’ve already decided to try LilyPond, first
read about our Text input.
Freedom
Free Software
GNU LilyPond is written and maintained
by a community of enthusiasts. It is published under the
GNU General Public License and the GNU Free Documentation License, giving everybody the freedom to fix,
modify, and extend the program. Creating beautiful music should
not require hundreds of dollars of software!
What are the benefits to users?
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No cost: download and try it out! What do you have to lose?
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Sharing: if you like the program, give a copy to your friends,
teachers, students, and colleagues!
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Source available: if you are curious about how LilyPond creates
some notation, you can see exactly how it is done.
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Extendible: you can add features, fix bugs, and change the
functionality. If you are not a programmer, you can hire somebody
to do those tasks.
This may not seem appealing to casual musicians, but the ability
to extend software can be highly valuable to serious composers,
companies, and academics.
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Future safety: if a commercial company goes bankrupt, what happens
to any electronic music which depends on their products? This is
not a concern with LilyPond; even if the entire development team
quits (extremely unlikely), the program will still be legally
available for copying, modifications, and distribution.
Why do LilyPond developers “give away” their work for free?
Most of us view LilyPond development as a hobby or volunteer work.
So this question is really asking “why do people volunteer”?
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Fun: working towards a goal can be enjoyable, especially when you
work as a team!
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Shared goals: we all want beautiful sheet music, but few people
have the expertise (and nobody has the time!), to create a program
which can handle all situations. By working together – one
person improves the automatic beaming code, another person
improves the shape of slurs, and a third person writes
documentation explaining how to use these features – we can
achieve our goal with only a fraction of the individual effort.
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“Gift culture”: the Free Software
movement has created many great software projects, such as
GNU/Linux,
Mozilla Firefox, and
Battle for Wesnoth. Having
benefitted from these projects, some developers want to “give
back” to the community.
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Work experience: contributing to free software projects is a great way to
practice programming, documentation writing, documentation translation,
or design. This experience has helped some developers gain job offers
or scholarships.
Where now?
Still not convinced? Read our extensive essay about our engraving
philosophy in Background. If you’ve already decided to try
LilyPond, first read about our Text input.
Background
Background essay
We have an extensive essay describing computational aesthetics:
the art of creating beauty with a computer.
This is interesting reading if you are interested in an in-depth
discussion of our fundamental ideas. Due to its volume the
essay is available as a "manual". If you would like to read
it now, please progress to Essay. However, if you just
want a quick introduction to LilyPond, you might skip it for now.
Where now?
Still not convinced? Read about some of our users’
Productions and sheet music. If you’ve already decided to
try LilyPond, first read about our Text input.
Productions
Productions using LilyPond
Here you can read about people who actually use LilyPond
in their productions, be it for performances of their
music or as published scores. The list is limited to
works released as public domain or under open
content licenses.
Performances and Concerts
LilyPond engravings have been used for performances around the world.
Some highlights:
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Marc Hohl has written musical scores for children and adolescents.
Engraved using LilyPond (with LaTeX) and available for free, in
German, from https://www.singspielschmiede.de/, all of the music
was performed on stage at the School where Marc works.
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Aurélien Bello arranged a version
of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier for four singers and a
chamber orchestra of thirteen players. This was a commission by the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra who performed it in 2015 at the
Baden-Baden
and also at the
Berlin.
We are pleased to see musicians of such reputation playing from LilyPond
scores (who were reportedly very happy with them).
Aurélien also re-orchestrated Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard
Wagner for a family concert (ages 7 and above). It was written for a
standard symphony orchestra, but with a reduced cast of singers and was
performed by the
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
in 2014 at the Atze Musiktheater, Berlin. The Conductor was Heiko
Matthias Förster.
Another re-orchestration by Aurélien was Mussorgsky’s
Pictures at an exhibition which he also conducted for the
Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg
in 2011 and again in 2012.
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Joe Smeets created sheet music for the children’s book Zing Mee
(Sing along) by Annie M.G. published by Querido –
ISBN 9789045106205. He also worked on the score and parts for an
arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov for wind quartet, piano
and percussion which was performed in 2014 by
Muziektheater Hollands Diep.
Joe also created the choir rehearsal scores for the Dutch translation of
Benjamin Britten’s Saint Nicolas which was performed in 2011 by
Muziektheater Hollands Diep see
www.muziektheaterhollandsdiep.nl.
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Luca Rossetto Casel,
for his Ph.D. thesis, created a critical edition of Tommaso Traetta’s
Enea nel Lazio (1760), opera seria on a libretto by Vittorio
Amedeo Cigna-Santi, in four parts:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
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Kieren MacMillan, composer and
musical director of many works including; Go Thy Way,
performed by the Salt Lake Choral Artists in 2012; The Just Out of Reach Suite
performed by the
Chrysalis Duo; and thrafsmata performed by the
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble in 2011.
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Mike Solomon was the winner of 172
entries from 22 countries for the
2011 Left Coast Composition Contest
with his work Anonymous Student Compliment or Complaint.
Other works for Mike include, Norman (age 1) for clarinet solo,
performed at the University of Florida’s
Electroacoustic Music Festival (FEMF) in October 2010.
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Thomas Griffin, Musicologist (Rome, Italy), edited a modern edition of
the Serenata Erminia by Alessandro Scarlatti, which was performed
in 2010 at the Galleria of the Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples,
Italy in celebration of the composer’s 350th birthday. See
http://www.ascarlatti2010.net.
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Nicolas Sceaux engraved
the work of Lully’s Armide which was performed by
Mercury Baroque in 2009.
Nicolas also engraved the instrumental excerpts from Rameau’s
Hippolyte et Aricie which were performed by Frederick Renz and
his ensemble at St. James’s Church, Manhattan, New York in 2009. See
Early Music New York.
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Valentin Villenave engraved a
libretto of Affaire étrangère, an opera by
Lewis Trondheim, which was premiered in 2009 at the
L’Opéra National de Montpellier, France.
Published sheet music
Sheet libraries
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Mutopia Project, with over
2000 pieces of classical sheet music for free download, is the main
showcase of LilyPond scores. Every piece comes with its LilyPond source
file, allowing you to learn from other typesetters and also make your
own edition.
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baroquemusic.it, started in 2005,
collects over 800 scores of baroque music. The archive includes scores,
separate parts and midi files, distributed with a Creative Commons
license and available to subscribers only.
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Partitura Organum is a growing collection
of organ pieces in the public domain, typeset by LilyPond and
distributed under a Creative Commons license.
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Clairnote offers free sheet music in
Clairnote notation. Clairnote is an alternative notation system that
aims to make music easier to read and understand. The scores on the
website are taken from Mutopia and other online resources and then
converted to Clairnote’s own notation.
Sheet source repositories
Where now?
Still not convinced? Read some of our users’ Reviews.
If you’ve already decided to try LilyPond, first read about our
Text input.
Reviews
What do people say about LilyPond?
Published articles
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April 2011
Linux Magazine publishes an
article titled
Projects on the Move. It is an introductory article on MuseScore,
LilyPond and Chordii. Author Carla Schroder states “LilyPond is
driven from the command line, but don’t let the lack of a GUI scare
you away; LilyPond is user-friendly and easy to learn”, and provides
a hands-on example.
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May 2010
Peter Kirn, on the Create Digital Music website, publishes a
LilyPond review. He takes a balanced view on usage, praises LilyPond’s
high-quality notation and suggests to try it out.
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September 2009
The German LinuxUser magazine wrote an
article about LilyPond.
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August 2009
Ann Drinan, on the
Polyphonic.org
website, presents comments by two orchestra librarians who
talk about using software to maintain their libraries.
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June 2009
In an article
published in the French National Conservatory Parent
Association’s yearly magazine, French composer and LilyPond
contributor Valentin Villenave explains how Free licenses, and
specifically LilyPond-engraved scores, are instrumental in
making written music accessible to all.
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February 2008
In articles on his personal site, Andrew Hawryluk compares Finale
and LilyPond in general terms, and evaluates engraving
capabilities of both pieces of software in detail. The second
article is an instructive analysis of engraving issues in
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Prelude No. 6, including comparisons with a
hand-engraved reference edition.
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June 2006
DistroWatch awards LilyPond and
writes
“Ladies and Gentleman, we are pleased to announce that, based
on readers’ requests, the DistroWatch May 2006 donation has been
awarded to LilyPond (€190.00) and Lua (US$250.00).”
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December 2005
Linux Journal publishes an article
titled Make Stunning Schenker Graphs with GNU LilyPond. It is an in-depth
but hands-on feature article with crisp LilyPond graphics. Author
Kris Shaffer remarks “GNU LilyPond generates beautiful graphics
that make commercial alternatives seem second-rate.”
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August 20, 2005
The Belgian newspaper De Standaard investigates what drives Free
Software authors in an article titled
Delen van KENNIS zonder WINSTBEJAG (Non-profit sharing of
knowledge) in its ‘DS2 bijlage’. LilyPond is used as an example
and the article is interspersed with quotes from an email
interview with Jan Nieuwenhuizen. This marks LilyPond’s first
appearance in mainstream printed press.
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June 2005
A French article on the LilyPond 2.6 release appeared on
linuxfr.org.
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October 2004
The editors of Computer!Totaal, a Dutch computer magazine,
describe LilyPond in the October 2004 issue as: “Wonderful
free (open source) software […] The sheet music produced by
LilyPond is exceptionally pretty […] a very powerful system that
can do almost anything.”
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July, August 2004
Dave Phillips wrote an introductory article for
Linux Journal: At
the sounding edge: LilyPond, parts
one and
two.
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March 2004
Chris Cannam
interviewed
Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen on linuxmusician.com
(original site defunct). This interview was also reviewed in a
slashdot story.
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February 2004
Jazz singer Gail Selkirk writes about
Diving into LilyPond. “… you can make lead sheets or full
orchestral parts, and the results can be stunning.”
Computer Music Special,
issue CMS06.
User testimonials
Carter Brey, Principal Cellist, New York Philharmonic
“… I’ve written a couple of encore pieces for solo cello
which I’ve printed with LilyPond and which I’m going to submit to
Schirmer for publication. I’ll bet their engraved version wouldn’t
look half as sharp as mine!”
Orm Finnendahl, professor of Composition, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main
“Although I don’t know [LilyPond] very well yet, I’m
*very impressed. I used the program to input a motet of
Josquin Desprez in mensural notation and there’s no doubt that
lilypond outscores all other notation programs easily concerning
speed, ease of use and look!”
Darius Blasband, composer (Brussels, Belgium)
“[..after the first orchestra rehearsal] I got numerous
compliments about the quality of the scores. Even more
importantly, while LilyPond provides numerous hacks to improve the
way its scores look, what the orchestra got from me is basically
the raw, untouched output.”
Kieren MacMillan, composer (Toronto, Canada)
“thanks and kudos to the development team for their incredible
work. I’ve never seen anything approaching the output that I get
from LilyPond – I’m totally confident that my music publishing
needs will be fulfilled beyond my expectations using this great
application. […] basically untweaked LilyPond output
[…] looks better than most recent ‘professional’
publications I’ve compared it to (q.v., just about any Warner
Bros. score, and even many of the most recent by ‘the old
houses’). […]” “Beat that, Finale/Sibelius/Igor/whatever!!!”
Chris Cannam, lead programmer of the RoseGarden project
“LilyPond is obviously the zillion-ton gorilla [of great music
typesetting].”
“The way that music is entered for LilyPond causes me to think in a
more musical way – there have been times when I’ve been stumped as
to how to tell Lily to engrave something, only to realize that
even if I did get it exactly as the composer wanted, the music
would be confusing to read. LilyPond makes it much easier for me
to work in my dual editor+engraver role.”
“I’ve been using LilyPond exclusively for my fledgling music
publishing business. Virtually without exception, every composer
has been blown away by the quality of the engraving when presented
with the proofs of their music about to be published. I deserve
some of the credit for this – I spend a lot of time tweaking
output, especially ties (mainly in chords) – but LilyPond gives
me an excellent starting point, a very intuitive interface, and
the ability to modify absolutely anything if I want to take the
time. I’m convinced that no commercial product can come close.”
David Bobroff, Bass Trombone, Iceland Symphony Orchestra
“I think LilyPond is great […] The more I learn about LilyPond
the more I like it!”
Vaylor Trucks, Electric guitar player (Yes, related to)
“I am super impressed with LilyPond […]”
“THIS IS THE BEST PROGRAM EVER!!!”
“Thank you all SO MUCH for your hard work and dedication!”
“I had a kind of hate-passion relationship with it. Passion
because the first score I saw was so amazing! The description of
LilyPond lies about its beautifulness, it is too modest! […] as
LilyPond is getting always better, and as I look closer how things
are done in scheme, I have less and less frustrations. Anyway,
what I mean is: thank you for providing LilyPond, it is really
good.”
Werner Lemberg, Conductor at the Theater in Koblenz, Germany and distinguished GNU Hacker
“Anyway, LilyPond does an amazingly good job!”
Paul Davis, developer of JACK and Ardour
“I think [LilyPond is] an incredible program, and it produces
wonderful, wonderful output. when i read an interview about it
last year, i was raving to several friends of mine about its
potential.”
“I have the deepest respect towards LilyPond and towards its creators
and maintainers as I know from personal experience how difficult this
kind of software can be.”
David Cameron, Musician, professional typesetter and long time SCORE user
“My heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributes to this project. I
was a power SCORE user for big typesetting houses way back in the ’90s,
but I feel LilyPond finally makes it possible for me to get exactly what
I want on the page, especially when it isn’t "standard" practice.”
Text input
“Compiling” Music
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LilyPond is a compiled system: it is run on a text file
describing the music. The resulting output is viewed on-screen or
printed. In some ways, LilyPond is more similar to a programming
language than graphical score editing software.
You do not write music by dragging notes from a graphical toolbar
and placing them on a dynamically refreshing score; you write
music by typing text. This text is interpreted (or “compiled”)
by LilyPond, which produces beautifully engraved sheet music.
People accustomed to graphical user interfaces might need to learn
a new way of working, but the results are definitely worth it!
Note: We present a quick overview of our text input – it’s not
as complicated as it sounds! Don’t worry about understanding
every detail in these examples; our beginner documentation covers
everything at a much more gradual pace.
It’s as simple as A B C
Notes are encoded with letters and numbers. Special commands are
entered with backslashes.
Alterations are made with different names: add -is for
sharp, and -es for flat (these are Dutch note names, other
languages are available). LilyPond figures out where to put
accidentals.
Pop music
Put chords and lyrics together to get a lead sheet:
Orchestral parts
The input file contains the notes of piece of music. Score and
parts can be made from a single input file, so that changing a
note always affects the score and parts. To be able to include
the same music in multiple places, the music is assigned to a
“variable” (a name).
This variable is then used in a single part (here transposed, with
condensed rests spanning several measures):
The same variable is used in the full score (here in concert
pitch):
Beginner Documentation
We realize that many users find this way of entering music a bit
odd. For this reason, we have written extensive documentation to
help new users, beginning with Learning. The Learning
Manual is the best place to start, as many questions are answered
before they come up!
Occasionally new users are unnecessarily confused by some aspects
of LilyPond’s behavior. Please read this manual before doubting
whether LilyPond is working correctly.
More in-depth information is available in Manuals.
Ben Lemon, a LilyPond user, has created a range of
video tutorials
on his blog and which are aimed at new users.
Easier editing environments
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LilyPond is primarily concerned with producing top-quality
engraved sheet music; creating a Graphical User Interface (GUI)
would distract us from this goal. However, there are other
projects aimed at making it easier to create LilyPond input files.
Some editing environments include syntax highlighting, automatic
command completion, and pre-made templates. Other programs
actually provide a GUI which allows direct manipulation of a
graphical score. For more information, see Easier editing.
Easier editing
Front-end Applications
Frescobaldi
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https://www.frescobaldi.org
Frescobaldi is a lightweight, yet powerful, music and text editor
with many features added and enhanced particularly for LilyPond. Major
features include point-and-click links between the code and music views,
detailed score wizards, built-in LilyPond documentation browser, syntax
highlighting and automatic completion. Frescobaldi is written in
Python, with PyQt4 for its user interface, and will run on all major
operating systems (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows).
Denemo
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http://denemo.org
Denemo is a graphical editor which generates LilyPond source code,
and also allows audio playback. It allows users to view the
LilyPond source code in parallel to the graphical view. Extra
LilyPond tweaks can be attached to notes, chords, etc., and are stored
with the Denemo file, so that users can continue to edit graphically.
Moving the cursor in the LilyPond text moves the cursor in the graphical
view, and any syntax errors in your LilyPond tweaks are highlighted in
the text view when printed from there.
Browser-based editors
Hacklily
https://www.hacklily.org/
An online sheet-music editor and publishing tool powered by LilyPond,
with additional features such as autocompletion and contextual help.
The underlying web hosting code is available under the AGPL license,
on its own development page.
www.omet.ca
http://www.omet.ca/
Since 2010, Online Music Editing Tools (OMET) offers a ready-to-use
LilyPond service with a specifically-tailored web interface.
Registration is required but free of charge.
Text editors
Emacs
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Emacs is a text editor with language-sensitive capabilities for many
different computer languages. Emacs is a highly extensible editor and
can be used as an Integrated Development Environment. There is a
‘lilypond mode’ which supplies the language definitions for working
with LilyPond source files. A developer has written
lyqi, an Emacs major mode.
If you are not already familiar with Emacs then you may probably prefer
to use a different editor for writing LilyPond input files.
More information on setting up Emacs can be found in
Text editor support.
Vim
https://www.vim.org
Vim is a minimal text editor and is an extension of the older Unix
vi editor. It is also extensible and configurable.
If you are not already familiar with Vi then you may probably prefer
to use a different editor for writing LilyPond input files.
More information on setting up Vim can be found in
Text editor support.
TeXShop
https://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/
The TeXShop editor for MacOS X can be extended to run LilyPond,
lilypond-book and convert-ly from within the editor,
using the extensions available at:
http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~nicola.vitacolonna/home/content/lilypond-scripts
Other programs that can export LilyPond code
Score, tab and MIDI editors:
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bwwtolily attempts to
convert a
.bww or .bmw file to LilyPond. While not all of
the embellishments may get converted properly (this is especially true
with piobaireachd), the program will list them.
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Canorus, a score editor, can also export
to LilyPond, but is still beta-software. Testers are welcome, though.
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Enc2ly is a GNU/Linux program
which converts an Encore music score into a LilyPond one.
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go-enc2ly is a Go tool that
converts Encore files to LilyPond. It was created using Felipe Castro’s
research and reverse engineering by tweaking existing .enc files and
loading them using the 4.55 demo version.
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NtEd,
a score editor based on the Cairo
library, it has experimental support for exporting to LilyPond.
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NW2LY
is a C# program which converts a NoteWorthy composer song into LilyPond.
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Ripple
is a program that helps create scores and parts, including a mode for
mixing different musical works together in a single score or part.
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Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI
sequencer, which also has a score editor for single-staff editing.
Algorithmic code generators
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Abjad, a
Python API for Formalized Score Control
designed to help composers build up complex pieces of LilyPond notation
in an iterative and incremental way.
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FOMUS, (FOrmat MUSic) is a
music notation tool for computer music composers. It is written in the
Lisp programming language, and has been tested in a variety of
interpreters. A C++ port is also available.
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Strasheela,
an environment built on top of the
The Mozart Programming System.
Other programs no longer being actively developed
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LilyBin is a web-based
LilyPond editor where you can typeset your scores directly online
without needing to install LilyPond. Code snippets are kept
available with a unique URL, like on so-called ‘pastebin’
websites. Although https://lilybin.com, where it used to
be hosted, has been discontinued, its source code continues to be
freely available under the MIT license; it may be found on its
GitHub page.
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WebLily was one of the first web
services based on LilyPond.
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LilyPondTool was
created as a plugin for the jEdit text
editor.
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LilyKDE has been replaced by
Frescobaldi, and exists as LilyKDE3
for KDE 3.5 and lilypond-KDE4 for KDE 4.1 only.
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LilyComp is a graphical note
entry program, acting much like a number-pad which produces LilyPond
notes.
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MuseScore, a score editor. LilyPond
export was dropped in version 2.0 but earlier versions are still
available for download at
Sourceforge.
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NoteEdit, which imported
MusicXML, has been forked into
NtEd
and Canorus.
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Rumor, a realtime monophonic
MIDI-to-LilyPond converter.
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tunefl
Typeset your mini-scores directly online without needing to install
LilyPond locally. It allows trying out all the program’s features using
a convenient web interface.
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TuxGuitar, a
multitrack tablature editor and player, includes a score viewer and can
export to LilyPond.
Where now?
You are now ready to Download LilyPond.
Still not convinced? Many composers, musicians, and conductors
have learned how to write music in our input format. Experienced
users even report that they can enter a full score in LilyPond
faster than with a piano keyboard or mouse+GUI! Perhaps you would
like to review the Features, Examples, or the
Freedom that LilyPond provides, or read about users’
Productions and Reviews. In addition, our
approach to the computational aesthetics of classical engraving is
explained in our Background.
Download
Downloads for LilyPond 2.24.4
Essential links
For new users
Text input: LilyPond is a text-based music engraver;
it is more similar to a programming language than a graphical score
editing program. Read this to understand the basic LilyPond editing
workflow.
Learning:
This gentle introduction to LilyPond shows how to install it
and guides you through your first steps with the program.
For users who upgrade from a previous version
Changes:
What’s new in LilyPond 2.24.4.
Usage:
Explains how to run convert-ly to effortlessly update
existing input files written for older versions.
Learning:
The installation method shown in the tutorial allows installing
several versions of LilyPond in parallel seamlessly.
GNU/Linux
Generic Packages or Distribution-Specific Packages?
Many distributions include LilyPond within their normal package
repositories. However, these may be significantly older than the
current stable version. If this is the case for you, we strongly
recommend that you use our generic packages.
Downloads for Generic Packages
Windows
Downloads for Generic Packages
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macOS
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All versions
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Manuals
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LilyPond’s Scheme: an external tutorial to learn Scheme, the
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an absolute beginner when it comes to programming.
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Learning Scheme for LilyPond: another LilyPond-oriented Scheme tutorial. Recommended
if you have some experience with programming in another language.
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Extending Guide:
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Scheme.
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manuals for the unstable version.
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Learning
Learning manual
This book explains how to begin learning LilyPond, as well as
explaining some key concepts in easy terms. You should read these
chapters in a linear fashion.
There is a paragraph See also at the end of each section,
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and follow those cross-references for more information.
Glossary
Glossary
This explains musical terms, and includes translations to various
languages. If you are not familiar with music notation or music
terminology (especially if you are a non-native English speaker),
it is highly advisable to consult the glossary.
Essay
Essay
This book gives a brief history of music typography, followed by
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between LilyPond and other music engraving systems is given.
Note: the detailed typographical examples are easier to analyze
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Notation
Notation reference
This book explains all the LilyPond commands which produce
notation.
Note: the Notation reference assumes that the reader knows
basic material covered in the Learning manual and is familiar with
the English musical terms presented in the glossary.
Usage
Usage manual
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Snippets
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source tree.
The list of snippets for each subsection of the Notation are also
linked from the See also portion.
FAQ
Introductory questions
Where are the graphical canvas, menus, and toolbars?
LilyPond requires you to write music as text. Please read about
our Text input.
There’s a lot of documentation! Do I need to read it?
You need to read the Learning manual. As for the
rest of documentation, you only need to read the sections which
discuss the notation that you wish to create.
That’s still a lot of reading! Is it worth it?
Please decide for yourself; the reasons why you might want to use
LilyPond are given in the Introduction.
Web
Web
This manual supplies general information about LilyPond. It also
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Extending
Extending LilyPond
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Internals
Internals reference
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and function. It is produced directly from the formatting
definitions in the source code.
Almost all formatting functionality that is used internally is
available directly to the user. For example, most variables that
control thickness values, distances, etc., can be changed in input
files. There are a huge number of formatting options, and all of
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Reference has a See also subsection, which refers to the
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Interacting with the community
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Publications: what we wrote, and have had written about us.
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Attic: announcements and changelogs from past versions,
old news, etc.
Contact
LilyPond Snippet Repository
The LilyPond Snippet Repository is a large collection of
user-submitted examples, which can freely be copied and used
in your own works. See what other people have written,
and add your own!
https://lsr.di.unimi.it
Particularly instructive examples from LSR are included in our
official documentation, in Snippets.
IRC
Some level of support is provided on our IRC channel,
#lilypond@irc.libera.chat
This channel has no public archive, so any question that may
be useful for others would better be posted to one of the mailing lists.
Tiny examples
What are “Tiny examples”?
A tiny example is an example from which nothing can be removed.
Why create them?
-
The simpler the example is, the quicker potential helpers can
understand it and help you.
-
A tiny example demonstrates that you have put effort towards
solving the problem yourself. When people send huge portions of
input, it looks like they don’t care if we help them or not.
-
Creating a tiny example helps you to understand what is
happening. Many false problem reports can be avoided by
attempting to create a tiny example; if you cannot replicate a
“bug” in a tiny example, then the problem was probably an
insufficient understanding of LilyPond, not an actual bug!
How to create them?
-
Include the
\version number.
-
Make it small! Examples about spacing or page layout might
require many bars of music, but most issues can be reproduced
using less than a single measure.
-
When trying to create an example, try commenting out (
%
or %{ … %}) sections of your file. If you
can comment something while still demonstrating the main idea,
then remove the commented-material.
-
Avoid using complicated notes, keys or time signatures, unless
the bug is about the behavior of those items.
-
Do not use
\override or \set commands unless the bug
is about those specific commands.
-
Optionally, attach an image showing the desired graphical output.
How tiny should they be?
Is the code below a minimal example?
\version "2.14.1"
\include "english.ly"
\score {
\new Staff {
\key d \major
\numericTimeSignature
\time 2/4
<cs' d'' b''>16 <cs' d'' b''>8.
%% Here: the tie on the D's looks funny
%% Too tall? Left-hand endpoint is not aligned with the B tie?
~
<cs' d'' b''>8 [ <b d'' a''> ]
}
}
Well, it is not very big, but a truly minimal example is here:
\version "2.14.1"
{
% middle tie looks funny here:
<c' d'' b''>8. ~ <c' d'' b''>8
}
Very few tiny examples exceed 10 lines of code -
quite often 4 lines are enough to demonstrate the problem!
Bug reports
If you have input that results in a crash or wrong output,
then that is a bug.
Step 1: Known bugs
We may already know about this bug. Check here:
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues
Note: Please DO NOT add bug reports directly to the
bug tracker. Once an issue has been added to the tracker, feel
free to add more information to that report.
Step 2: Creating a bug report
If you have discovered a bug which is not listed,
please help us by creating a bug report.
Note: We only accept reports in the form of
Tiny examples. We have very limited resources,
so any non-minimal example will be rejected. Almost
every bug can be demonstrated in four notes or less!
Here is an example of a good bug report:
% Accidentals should be printed for only
% the first note in a tie, but this version
% prints flats on both notes.
\version "2.10.1"
\relative c'' {
bes1 ~
bes1
}
Step 3: Sending a bug report
Once you have verified that the issue is not already known and
created a bug report, please send it to us!
Unfortunately there is no longer an interface for posting to the
bug-lilypond list without subscribing; see
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
for more information.
Step 4: Wait for a response
Once your bug report has been sent to the list, our Bug Squad will
examine it; they may ask you for more information. You will be notified
when the report will be added to the bug tracker. Please allow up to 4
days, as we have a limited number of volunteers for this task.
Once a bug has been added to the tracker, you can comment it to add
more information about it.
In order to be automatically notified about any activity on the
tracker issue, you may subscribe by clicking the envelope
symbol next to the issue title.
Optional help: show the desired behavior
Once an issue has been added to the tracker, it can be very
helpful if we can see the desired output. Feel free to add input
code and/or images (possibly created with other tools) which
demonstrate what you think it should look like!
Help us
We need you!
Thank you for your interest in helping us — we would love to see
you get involved! Your contribution will help a large group of users
make beautifully typeset music.
Even working on small tasks can have a big impact: taking care of
them allows experienced developers work on advanced tasks, instead
of spending time on those simple tasks.
For a multi-faceted project like LilyPond, sometimes it’s tough to know
where to begin. In addition to the avenues proposed below, you can send
an e-mail to the
lilypond-devel@gnu.org
mailing list, and we’ll help you to get started.
Simple tasks
No programming skills required!
-
Mailing list support: answer questions from fellow users.
(This may entail helping them navigate the online documentation;
in such cases it may sometimes be appropriate to point them
to version-agnostic URL paths such as
/latest/ or
/stable/,
which are automatically redirected.)
-
Bug reporting: help users create proper
Bug reports, and/or
join the Bug Squad to organize
Issues.
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Documentation: small changes can be proposed by following the
guidelines for
Documentation suggestions.
-
LilyPond Snippet Repository (LSR): create and fix snippets
following the guidelines in
Adding and editing snippets.
-
Discussions, reviews, and testing: the developers often ask for
feedback about new documentation, potential syntax changes, and
testing new features. Please contribute to these discussions!
Advanced tasks
These jobs generally require that you have the source code and can
compile LilyPond.
Note: We suggest that contributors using Windows or MacOS X do
not attempt to set up their own development environment;
instead, use Lilydev as discussed in
Quick start.
Contributors using Linux or FreeBSD may also use Lilydev, but if
they prefer their own development environment, they should read
Working with source code, and
Compiling.
Begin by reading
Summary for experienced developers.
Sponsoring
Bounties
In the past,
- some users have paid for new features
- some developers have added new features for hire
The LilyPond project does not organize such efforts; we neither
endorse nor discourage such agreements. Any contracts between
private individuals is the business of those individuals, not
ours.
Guidelines
Any user wanting to offer money in exchange for work should bear
in mind the following points:
-
LilyPond developers may advertise their services on the lilypond
email lists from time to time.
-
Any agreements between private individuals should include the
normal precautions when conducting business: who pays, how much do
they pay, with what method of payment, and upon what set of
conditions. We suggest that any ambiguity or uncertainty in these
questions should be resolved before any work begins.
Development
Development for LilyPond 2.25.18
Note: These are unstable development versions. If you
have the slightest doubt about how to use or install LilyPond, we
urge you to use the stable Download, and read the
stable Manuals.
Release numbers
There are two sets of releases for LilyPond: stable releases, and
unstable development releases. Stable versions have an
even-numbered ‘minor’ version number (e.g., 2.14, 2.16, 2.18).
Development versions have an odd-numbered ‘minor’ version number
(e.g., 2.15, 2.17, 2.19).
Contributor’s Guide
LilyPond development is a fairly complicated matter. In order to
help new contributors, and to keep the whole system (mostly)
stable, we have written a manual for development tasks.
Manuals
Note: These manuals are for LilyPond 2.24.4; the latest
manuals can be found at https://lilypond.org
Google Summer of Code
What is Google Summer of Code?
GSoC is a global program
that offers students stipends to write code for free software and open
source projects during the summer. For three months students work to
complete a given task as part of the project’s community and under the
guidance of experienced mentors. The program is an excellent
opportunity for students to gain experience with real-world software
development and make a contribution that benefits everyone. It brings
new contributors to LilyPond and enables students who are already
involved to become more involved. LilyPond participates in GSoC as part
of the GNU project.
We have had GSoC participants in 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020. This
site is current for the 2023 program.
Project Ideas List
Below is a list of GSoC project ideas (last update: May 2017), but
if you have other ideas for a project you may complete within the three
months of the program you’re welcome to make a suggestion on our
developer mailing list (see Contact). There are a number of areas
where LilyPond could be improved, and our development team is always
willing to help those who would like to tackle a project similar to
those listed below. As mentor availability varies from project to
project and from year to year it is wise to get in touch with us as
early as possible.
Per 2018 we have installed the new role of “Community Mentor”. We aim
at assigning one Community Mentor to each active project who is
not responsible for discussing the implementation or reviewing
the code. Instead they will on the one hand discuss the design
of the planned features from the (power) user perspective, and they
will look after the communication between student and mentor, and
between the two and the community.
A full list of all the current open issues can be found
here.
Adding variants of font glyphs
-
Adding ‘on’ and ‘between’ staff-line variants.
-
Shorter and narrower variants of some glyphs for example, accidentals.
Another, more specific example could be an ancient notation breve
notehead coming in two variants one with a small or big ‘hole’ within
it.
Difficulty: easy
Requirements: MetaFont, C++, good eye for details
Recommended knowledge: basic LilyPond knowledge
Mentor: Werner Lemberg
Improve/Extend Export to MusicXML
There is experimental support for exporting scores to MusicXML.
So far there is limited coverage that should be extended, and the export
should become more robust with regard to unconventionally organized input
files. Several strategies can be thought of in that regard.
Significant progress in coverage has been made in a GSoC Project hosted
by Frescobaldi in 2017, but there is
still much to be done that could make a nice GSoC project.
Working in this project will mainly be done in the
python-ly repository.
Difficulty: easy to hard (depending on the targeted improvements)
Size of project: to be defined
Requirements: Python, MusicXML
Mentor: Peter Bjuhr (?)
Fix Beaming Patterns/Beam Subdivisions and Tuplets
Subdivision is an important way to improve the readability of beamed
music. However, despite several attempts at fixing it LilyPond still
does not always produce correct results. In order to properly fix this
issue it seems necessary to rewrite the responsible code from the ground
up. Much work has already been done assessing the issue (see
this discussion and
this work-in-progress document).
In the course of this assessment it has been found that LilyPond’s
conception of tuplets is somewhat flawed as well (see
this discussion), and that this has to be fixed as well.
Difficulty: medium
Size of project: to be defined
Requirements: C++
Recommended knowledge: Good musical and mathematical understanding
of timing issues
Mentors: Carl Sorensen (?)
Support for Style Sheets
LilyPond’s engraving output can be tweaked to the least detail, and one
important addition in recent years was the ability to use alternative
notation fonts. It is possible to create reusable modules for “house
styles”, but this project aims at bringing this to a new level by creating
a convenient extension package with support for creating, applying,
and sharing modular style sheets. We are looking for a hierarchical
structure that allows to mix and match style elements for “house” (e.g.,
“my-personal-style”, “client-a”, “client-b”, etc.), score type, paper
size etc.
Work can be built upon the existing
notation-fonts
openLilyLib package. We would like to see a further improvement of the
loading mechanism for notation fonts (for example a better separation
of loading notation and text fonts) as part of the project, and optionally
(this would involve working on Lilypond’s C++ code) support for notation
fonts that are installed system-wide.
Difficulty: medium
Size of project: to be defined
Requirements: Scheme, aesthetic competence
Recommended: sense of building hierarchical frameworks
Optional: C++ (for font loading internals)
Mentor: Abraham Lee (?)
Community Mentor: Kieren MacMillan
Information for Applicants/Participants
In order to have a satisfying experience with GSoC applicants are
strongly advised to thoroughly read the following recommendations. Some
of these are relevant for the application process, others for the time
within the project.
-
Read all applicable information on the program’s website, particularly
the
students’ manual. Make sure you fulfil all of Google’s prerequisites
and are willing to join the program as a full-time commitment over the
coding period of three months.
-
Please get in touch with us as soon as possible if you are interested in
applying with a project. Mentor availability may change without notice,
project proposals may need fine-tuning, and many other reasons might
require us to reject or ignore an application that hasn’t been discussed
before.
-
We do not know in advance how many “slots” we will have available for
projects, so please be aware that you may find yourself in competition
with other applicants or not. Interested or even enthusiastic response
from our mentors is no guarantee of eventually being accepted, and
not being accepted does not necessarily indicate a negative
evaluation of your application. If we have to decide between different
applicants there may be various aspects to consider.
-
Integration in the LilyPond community is a fundamental part of GSoC, and
we expect our students to make substantial efforts to become community
members. Within the bonding period we expect you to write a blog
post about your project (either on Scores of Beauty or on any other blog) and to be active on our mailing lists,
introducing yourself but also communicating about unrelated tasks. This
goes beyond the mere setting up of a working environment and
familiarizing yourself with the relevant code, but we think it is
crucial for the GSoC project to be mutually satisfying.
-
If you are accepted to the program you will have one mentor explicitly
assigned to your project. With this mentor you will have to agree upon
a communication strategy, be it emails, chatrooms, issue trackers or
voice/video chats. Regular communication is absolutely crucial for the
success of a GSoC project so you are stricly required to keep talking to
your mentor. But keep in mind that your mentor has explicitly taken
over the responsibility for your project, and while unlike you he isn’t
paid for this activity you are still entitled to get regular attention
from him.
-
In order to get support from your mentor you have to give him a chance
to follow your progress and efforts. Therefore it is important to
regularly commit your changes to the versioning repository you are
working on. Don’t hesitate making unfinished code available because you
are afraid of criticism, and don’t suppress questions because you think
they might be considered stupid. But ideally your code should at any
time be accompanied by compatible testing code. Your mentor may not be
able to properly assess your code by only reading it without the
opportunity to apply it in a real example.
There is a list of inactive projects in the Attic. We list
projects there that are still considered valuable but for which there
are currently no mentors available.
Authors
Current Development Team
- Jean Abou Samra:
jean@abou-samra.fr,
Factotum
- Colin Campbell:
cpkc.music@shaw.ca,
Patch Meister
- Dan Eble:
nine.fierce.ballads@gmail.com,
Core developer
- Jonas Hahnfeld:
hahnjo@hahnjo.de
https://www.hahnjo.de/
Core developer, release unbreaker, GitLab manager
- Phil Holmes:
mail@philholmes.net
http://www.philholmes.net
Build unentangler, Bug squad member
- David Kastrup:
dak@gnu.org,
hard core developer, user and programming interfaces, bug squashing and
swamp drainage.
- Werner Lemberg:
wl@gnu.org,
Fonts, bug squasher
- Han-Wen Nienhuys:
hanwen@xs4all.nl,
https://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/,
Main author
- Francisco Vila:
Translation Meister
Previous Development Team
- Mats Bengtsson:
mats.bengtsson@ee.kth.se,
https://www.kth.se/profile/matben/,
Support guru
- Bertrand Bordage:
bordage.bertrand@gmail.com,
Core developer, font designer
- Trevor Daniels:
t.daniels@treda.co.uk,
Assistant documentation editor
- Colin Hall:
Bug Meister
- Ian Hulin:
Core developer
- Reinhold Kainhofer:
reinhold@kainhofer.com,
https://reinhold.kainhofer.com,
Core developer, Music2xml wrangler
- Pedro Kroeger:
Build Meister
- Jonathan Kulp:
Assistant documentation editor
- James Lowe:
Documentation, Patch Meister
- Joe Neeman:
Core developer
- Jan Nieuwenhuizen:
janneke@gnu.org,
https://JoyofSource.com,
https://AvatarAcademy.nl,
Main author
- John Mandereau:
john.mandereau@free.fr,
Translation Meister
- Patrick McCarty:
SVG guru, bug squad member, bug squasher, text handling
- Graham Percival:
https://percival-music.ca,
Bug Meister, Grand Documentation Project leader
- Mark Polesky:
Documentation, Code cleanup
- Neil Puttock:
Core developer
- Jürgen Reuter:
reuter_j@web.de,
https://www.juergen-reuter.de,
Ancient notation
- Mike Solomon:
mike@mikesolomon.org,
Core developer, Frog Meister
- Erik Sandberg:
Bug Meister
- Nicolas Sceaux:
Core developer, Schemer extraordinaire
- Carl Sorensen:
c_sorensen@byu.edu,
Core developer
- Valentin Villenave:
Core developer
- Janek Warchoł:
janek.lilypond@gmail.com,
Core developer
Current Contributors
Programming
Erlend E. Aasland,
Kevin Barry,
Martín Rincón Botero,
Tim Burgess,
Thibaut Cuvelier,
Jefferson Felix,
David Stephen Grant,
Jordan Henderson,
Masamichi Hosoda,
Nihal Jere,
Martin Joerg,
Michael Käppler,
Doug Kearns,
Mark Knoop,
Thomas Morley,
Lukas-Fabian Moser,
Martin Neubauer,
Knut Petersen,
Valentin Petzel,
Pete Siddall,
Alen Šiljak,
Samuel Tam,
Timofey,
Nathan Whetsell
Font
Johannes Feulner,
David Stephen Grant,
Owen Lamb
Documentation
Michael Käppler,
Daniel Tobias Johansen Langhoff,
Thomas Morley,
John Wheeler
Translation
Federico Bruni,
Walter Garcia-Fontes,
Dénes Harmath,
Masamichi Hosoda,
Guyutongxue,
Chengrui Li,
Jean-Charles Malahieude,
Benkő Pál
Previous Contributors
Programming
Erlend Aasland,
Maximilian Albert,
Aleksandr Andreev,
Guido Amoruso,
Don Armstrong,
Guido Aulisi,
Joe Austin,
Sven Axelsson,
Kevin Barry,
Robin Bannister,
Kristof Bastiaensen,
Étienne Beaulé,
Davide Bonetti,
Frédéric Bron,
Federico Bruni,
Nathan Chou,
Juliusz Chroboczek,
Peter Chubb,
Angelo Contardi,
Vicente Solsona Della,
Hajo Dezelski,
Michael Welsh Duggan,
Hassan Elfatihi,
David Feuer,
Bertalan Fodor,
Richard Gay,
Mathieu Giraud,
Frederic Gohier,
Lisa Opus Goldstein,
Adam Good,
John Gourlay,
David Stephen Grant,
Torsten Hämmerle,
Yuval Harel,
Andrew Hawryluk,
Karlin High,
Christian Hitz,
Karin Hoethker,
Rutger Hofmann,
Marc Hohl,
Masamichi Hosoda,
Bernard Hurley,
Yoshinobu Ishizaki,
Chris Jackson,
Felix Janda,
David Jedlinsky,
Heikki Junes,
Michael Käppler,
Thomas Klausner,
Marek Klein,
Mark Knoop,
Michael Krause,
Tobias Kretschmar,
Jean-Baptiste Lamy,
John Lemcke,
Patrice Levesque,
Vincent Le Ligeour,
Jonatan Liljedahl,
Urs Liska,
Peter Lutek,
Kieren MacMillan,
Andrew Main,
John Mandereau,
Hendrik Maryns,
Malte Meyn,
Thomas Morgan,
Thomas Morley,
Paul Morris,
Lukas-Fabian Moser,
Alexander Myltsev,
David Nalesnik,
Matthias Neeracher,
Martin Neubauer,
Joram Noeck,
Keith OHara,
Justin Ohmie,
Tatsuya Ono,
Antonio Ospite,
Benkő Pál,
Benjamin Peterson,
Knut Petersen,
Matthew Peveler,
Guy Gascoigne-Piggford,
Anders Pilegaard,
Henning Hraban Ramm,
Nathan Reed,
Julien Rioux,
Johannes Rohrer,
Ben Rudiak-Gould,
Stan Sanderson,
Andreas Scherer,
Johannes Schindelin,
Patrick Schmidt,
Devon Schudy,
Boris Shingarov,
Kim Shrier,
Edward Sanford Sutton,
Adam Spiers,
Tim Starling,
David Svoboda,
Simon Tatham,
Heikki Taurainen,
Piers Titus van der Torren,
Owen Tuz,
Sebastiano Vigna,
Jan-Peter Voigt,
Arno Waschk,
Bernhard M. Wiedemann,
John Williams,
Andrew Wilson,
Jaap de Wolff,
Milan Zamazal,
Rune Zedeler,
Boris-Chengbiao Zhou,
Rodolfo Zitellini
Font
Jay Anderson,
Tom Cato Amundsen,
Torsten Hämmerle,
Marc Hohl,
Masamichi Hosoda,
Chris Jackson,
Alexander Kobel,
Daniel Benjamin Miller,
Abraham Lee,
Keith OHara,
Carsten Steger,
Arno Waschk,
Rune Zedeler
Documentation
Erlend Aasland,
Simon Albrecht,
Trevor Bača,
Kevin Barry,
Bernhard Bloechl,
Alard de Boer,
Frédéric Bron,
Federico Bruni,
Torsten Hämmerle,
Jay Hamilton,
Joseph Harfouch,
Andrew Hawryluk,
Karlin High,
Cameron Horsburgh,
Geoff Horton,
Masamichi Hosoda,
Heikki Junes,
Michael Käppler,
Kurtis Kroon,
Davide Liessi,
Urs Liska,
Dave Luttinen,
Kieren MacMillan,
Jean-Charles Malahieude,
Malte Meyn,
Christian Mondrup,
Mike Moral,
Thomas Morley,
Paul Morris,
Eyolf Østrem,
Ralph Palmer,
Pierre Perol-Schneider,
François Pinard,
Noam Postavsky,
David Pounder,
Michael Rasmussen,
Till Rettig,
Pavel Roskin,
Patrick Schmidt,
Andrej Shadura,
Alberto Simoes,
Fr. Samuel Springuel,
Guy Stalnaker,
Greg Swinford,
Martin Tarenskeen,
Arnold Theresius,
Anh Hai Trinh,
Eduardo Vieira,
Stefan Weil,
Rune Zedeler,
Rodolfo Zitellini
Bug squad
Simon Albrecht,
James E. Bailey,
Federico Bruni,
Eluze,
Phil Holmes,
Derek Klinge,
Marek Klein,
Urs Liska,
Kieren MacMillan,
Ralph Palmer,
Dmytro O. Redchuk
Support
Simon Albrecht,
Eluze,
Anthony Fok,
Christian Hitz,
Marc Hohl,
Phil Holmes,
Chris Jackson,
Heikki Junes,
Marek Klein,
Urs Liska,
Alex Loomis,
Kieren MacMillan,
Tim McNamara,
Thomas Morley,
Paul Morris,
David Nalesnik,
Ralph Palmer,
Pierre Perol-Schneider,
Neil Puttock,
David Svoboda,
Tao
Translation
Caio Barros,
Alard de Boer,
Federico Bruni,
Luca Rossetto Casel,
Felipe Castro,
Abel Cheung,
Frédéric Chiasson,
Simon Dahlbacka,
Orm Finnendahl,
Rafael Fontenelle,
Pavel Fric,
Hiroshi Fukuhara,
Walter Garcia-Fontes,
David González,
Tommaso Gordini,
Nicolas Grandclaude,
Erika Griechisch,
Dénes Harmath,
Damien Heurtebise,
Masamichi Hosoda,
Bjoern Jacke,
Matthieu Jacquot,
Neil Jerram,
Heikki Junes,
Nicolas Klutchnikoff,
Jean-Charles Malahieude,
Adrian Mariano,
Christian Mondrup,
Tineke de Munnik,
Steven Michael Murphy,
Till Paala,
François Pinard,
Gauvain Pocentek,
Till Rettig,
Ludovic Sardain,
Yoshiki Sawada,
Thomas Scharkowski,
Clytie Siddall,
August S. Sigov,
Roland Stigge,
Tomohiro Tatejima,
Paco Tomillo,
Risto Vääräniemi,
Andrea Valle,
Ralf Wildenhues,
Olcay Yıldırım
Publications
What we wrote about LilyPond
-
Server Acim.
GNU/LilyPond (Turkish Language).
2013.
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News
LilyPond 2.24.4 released! July 21, 2024
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.4. LilyPond is a
music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music
possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer
printouts.
This version contains a number of fixes since the release of the previous
stable version in November 2023. We recommend all users to update.
Scores converted to or written for 2.24.0 will continue to work with this
release. A list of added features and other user-visible changes for 2.24
can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/.
Among others, version 2.24.0 switched to Guile 2.2 and features a completely
rewritten infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally allowing
us to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows.
For distributions, Guile 3.0 is officially supported since the previous
LilyPond 2.24.3, even though the recommended version will remain Guile 2.2
for the LilyPond 2.24 series.
LilyPond 2.25.18 released July 14, 2024
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.18. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable
release.
Old News
Older news can be found in the Attic, along with older
announcements and changelogs
Attic
Announcements
Announcements and news by version:
v2.22,
v2.20,
v2.18,
v2.16,
v2.14,
v2.12,
v2.10,
v2.8,
v2.6,
v2.4,
v2.2,
v2.0,
v1.2,
v1.0,
v0.1
Descriptive list of changes by version:
v2.22,
v2.20,
v2.18,
v2.16,
v2.14,
v2.12,
v2.10,
v2.8,
v2.6,
v2.4,
v2.2,
v2.0,
v1.8,
v1.6,
v1.4,
v1.2
Thanks
Thanks to developers, contributors, bug hunters and suggestions for
v2.22,
v2.20,
v2.18,
v2.16,
v2.14,
v2.12,
v2.10,
v2.8,
v2.6,
v2.4,
v2.2,
v2.0,
v1.8
Changelogs
Developers’ changelogs by version:
v2.10,
v2.3,
v2.1,
v1.5 (1),
v1.5 (2),
v1.4,
v1.3,
v1.2,
v1.1,
v1.0,
v0.1,
v0.0
Inactive Google Summer of Code project suggestions
The following list describes GSoC projects that had been proposed
in recent years and which are still considered valuable but for
which we currently don’t have mentors available.
Automated testing and documentation for openLilyLib
openLilyLib is an extension
framework for LilyPond code providing a “snippets” repository and a
suite of integrated packages such as for example page layout tools or
scholarly annotations. It is very powerful and promising, but to really
get off the ground two features are missing: automated testing and
documentation generation.
Automated testing is necessary to ensure modifications to functionality
don’t break other functions within the library. There is already some
Automated Testing of the “snippets” repository with Github’s Travis
server, but this has to be reconsidered and extended to cover the
standalone packages too.
In order to be usable for a wider range of LilyPond users on a “consumer
level” openLilyLib needs proper documentation. This documentation has
to be generated from the sources, so a system is needed that requires
package authors to document the input files and provide additional usage
examples, from which documentation is generated. Ideally but not
necessarily this is implemented as a Git hook, i.e., automatically upon
each update to the repository. We don’t prescribe the tools and
approaches to be used, but the most widely used language in the LilyPond
domain is Python, so there would be some bias towards that.
Alternatively a Scheme solution could be fine so generating the
documentation would actually be triggered by “compiling” a certain
LilyPond input file. In general it is advisable to make use of proven
concepts and tools from other languages.
The eventual output of the documentation should be a static HTML site
that can be viewed locally and/or uploaded to a website. But it would
be beneficial if the tool would first generate an intermediate
representation (e.g., a JSON file with additional media files) from which
a Single Page Application could retrieve content for display on
openLilyLib’s website. Development of
such a SPA can be part of the GSoC project, but is optional.
Difficulty: medium
Requirements: Python or Scheme, static website generator(s) or
(Node.js based) dynamic web application technology. Continuous
Integration (can be learned during the bonding period)
Contemporary Notation
LilyPond is very good at creating non-standard notation. Having to
code every graphical element instead of simply drawing
it may seem cumbersome but is in fact a strong asset. New notational
functionality can be provided with consistent appearance, automatic
layout and a natural syntactic interface.
Within the openLilyLib
library system the student will create a fundamental infrastructure
and building blocks to make creating contemporary notation easier.
Additionally (at least) one concrete package is developed to
cover specific contemporary notation, such as for example the style
of a given composer, extended playing techniques for a specific
instrument or a certain category of effects.
Difficulty: medium
Requirements: Scheme (interaction with LilyPond internals),
contemporary notation techniques
Recommended: sense of building hierarchical frameworks
Mentors: NN, Urs Liska
Frescobaldi Extensions
Starting with the current release 3.1
Frescobaldi has an extension API that
allows the easy integration of arbitrary functionality in the editing
environment. These could range from, say, document statistics and
accounting functionality to fancy features like a built-in video chat
client or a stock market ticker.
We would welcome project suggestions about arbitrary Frescobaldi
extensions of appropriate complexity that add substantial functionality
for working with LilyPond scores which might not be suitable to be
included into Frescobaldi itself.
As suggestions and examples may serve: a project management
extension that can manage repetoire of arbitrary complexity, handle
the generation of template files and the compilation process. Or an
extension to manage the openLilyLib
infrastructure.
Difficulty: easy/medium
Requirements: Python, (PyQt)
Optional: GUILE Scheme (if functionality involves LilyPond
internals)
Mentor: Urs Liska
Implement a System to Handle Scores System by System
One strategy that may improve the issue of LilyPond’s compilation time is
to handle scores in a system-by-system manner through partial compilation.
This project explores one approach to achieve this and may lay the ground
for future development towards a “LilyPond server”. It is very ambitions
because it involves working with LilyPond’s internals and optionally a
reference user interface in Frescobaldi.
The idea behind this project is the implementation of a music viewer that
doesn’t display pages but sees a scores as a continuous sequence of systems
that are stitched together. LilyPond can produce such a sequence of files,
and it can be made aware of the moments of each line break. That way only
systems have to be recompiled that are affected by a modification, thus
saving significant waiting times. Optionally there could be new engraving
modes in LilyPond that don’t try to optimize the line breaking, saving
even more time, at least while in content editing mode.
The project is fairly complex and has many more aspects than could be
listed on this page. So if you are interested in this please get in
touch with us as early as possible to evaluate options and discuss the
topics before you write an application.
Difficulty: hard
Requirements: LilyPond/Scheme, Python/PyQt
Optional: C++ if it’s necessary to modify LilyPond itself
Mentors: NN (, Urs Liska)
Community Mentor: Kieren MacMillan
MusicXML
Improving MusicXML import and export functions:
File interchange between LilyPond and other applications using MusicXML
is still a difficult matter. To import MusicXML it has to be converted
manually by the musicxml2ly script. Export to MusicXML is
only available as a rudimentary feature inside Frescobaldi. In order to
provide natural interchange between LilyPond and MusicXML based
applications there’s the need of actual import functionality and a
dedicated export backend.
Importing XML shall provide file, line and column to add origin
attributes to generated objects. That way point and click can be
made available in Frescobaldi or other supported IDEs.
Exporting XML shall be realized with an exporter class like the MIDI
export. This may be based on the work already done in
GSoC 2015
by David Garfinkle. It should be checked if it is possible to use
another XML library than the one provided by guile-2 in order to have
this feature available in current LilyPond (which is based on guile-1.8).
Difficulty: medium
Requirements: MusicXML, Python, Scheme, basic LilyPond knowledge
Recommended: Familiarity with other scorewriters (for cross-testing)
Improve slurs and ties
The engraving quality of slurs and ties is often unsatisfactory. Ties
‘broken’ by clef or staff changes are not handled well. The project
could include collecting and sorting examples of bad output, deciding on
the intended output and writing code to improve them.
Difficulty: hard
Requirements: C++, experience with writing heuristics
Recommended knowledge: LilyPond knowledge, aesthetic sense
Grace notes
Fix problems with synchronization of grace notes. Grace notes can
interfere with LilyPond’s timing and cause odd effects, especially when
multiple staffs are used where some have grace notes and others don’t.
This is one of the longest-standing and one of the more embarrassing
bugs in
LilyPond.
Difficulty: medium
Requirements: C++, MIDI
Recommended: familiarity with LilyPond internals
Improve default beam positioning
For regular, cross-staff, broken and kneed beams. Beaming should depend
on context and neighbor notes (see section 2.2 of
this book). If possible also reduce beaming-computation time.
Difficulty: medium
Requirements: C++, experience with writing heuristics
Recommended knowledge: aesthetic sense
Help improve compilation behavior
Automatic code analysis tools, like valgrind memory leak detection or
callgrind code profilers, provide valuable information about possible
flaws in our C++ code.
Difficulty: medium
Requirements: C++
Old News
Older news items dating back to July 2003. Newer news can be found on
the News page.
LilyPond 2.25.17 released June 15, 2024
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.17. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.16 released May 12, 2024
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.16. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.15 released April 20, 2024
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.15. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.14 released March 23, 2024
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.14. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.13 released Feburary 10, 2024
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.13. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.12 released January 7, 2024
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.12. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.11 released December 10, 2023
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.11. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.24.3 released! November 19, 2023
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.3. LilyPond is a
music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music
possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer
printouts.
This version contains a number of fixes since the release of the previous
stable version in August 2023. We recommend all users to update.
Scores converted to or written for 2.24.0 will continue to work with this
release. A list of added features and other user-visible changes for 2.24
can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/.
Among others, version 2.24.0 switched to Guile 2.2 and features a completely
rewritten infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally allowing
us to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows.
For distributions, LilyPond 2.24.3 most notably includes a fix to restore PDF
conversion with the recent Ghostscript 10.02.1. Also Guile 3.0 is now officially
supported, even though the recommended version will remain Guile 2.2 for the
LilyPond 2.24 series.
LilyPond 2.25.10 released November 11, 2023
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.10. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.2, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.9 released October 7, 2023
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.9. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.2, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.8 released September 16, 2023
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.8. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.2, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.24.2 released! August 12, 2023
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.2. LilyPond is a
music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music
possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer
printouts.
This version contains a number of fixes since the release of the previous
stable version in February 2023. This includes an update of the library for
garbage collection, addressing crashes when compiling very large scores
(several hundreds of pages) on Windows. We recommend all users to update.
Scores converted to or written for 2.24.0 will continue to work with this
release. A list of added features and other user-visible changes for 2.24
can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/.
Among others, version 2.24.0 switched to Guile 2.2 and features a completely
rewritten infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally allowing
us to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows.
LilyPond 2.25.7 released July 30, 2023
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.7. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.6 released June 24, 2023
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.6. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.5 released May 21, 2023
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.5. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.4 released April 22, 2023
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.4. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.3 released April 1, 2023
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.3. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.2 released February 18, 2023
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.2. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.24.1 released! February 12, 2023
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.1. LilyPond is a
music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music
possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer
printouts.
This version includes a number of fixes since the release of the previous
stable version in December 2022, and we recommend all users to update.
Scores converted to or written for 2.24.0 will continue to work with this
release. A list of added features and other user-visible changes for 2.24
can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/.
Among others, version 2.24.0 switched to Guile 2.2 and features a completely
rewritten infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally allowing
us to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows.
LilyPond 2.25.1 released January 21, 2023
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.1. This is
termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.24.0, the current stable
release.
LilyPond 2.25.0 released December 23, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.0, the start
of the next development cycle. This is termed a development release,
but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent
bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using
version 2.24.0, the current stable release.
LilyPond 2.24.0 released! December 15, 2022
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.0. LilyPond is a
music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music
possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer
printouts.
This version includes improvements and fixes since the branching of the
previous stable release in October 2020. A list of added features and
other user-visible changes can be found at
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/.
This release switches to Guile 2.2 and features a completely rewritten
infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally allowing us
to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows.
LilyPond 2.23.82 released November 27, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.82. This is the third
release candidate towards the next stable version 2.24.0 expected in December.
Please test your scores with this version and report back the experience as
well as any problems you encounter.
LilyPond 2.23.81 released November 13, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.81. This is the second
release candidate towards the next stable version 2.24.0 expected in December.
Please test your scores with this version and report back the experience as
well as any problems you encounter.
LilyPond 2.23.80 released October 22, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.80. This is the first
release candidate towards the next stable version 2.24.0 expected in December.
Please test your scores with this version and report back the experience as
well as any problems you encounter.
LilyPond 2.23.14 released October 9, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.14. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.
LilyPond 2.23.13 released September 18, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.13. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.
LilyPond 2.23.12 released August 23, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.12. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.
LilyPond 2.23.11 released July 24, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.11. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.
LilyPond 2.23.10 released June 26, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.10. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.
LilyPond 2.23.9 released May 20, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.9. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require
stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.
LilyPond 2.23.8 released April 24, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the
current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.2 version.
In this release, dropping Guile 1.8 support has finally become
possible also for our sources. We’d like to dedicate this release
to Ian Hulin who was one of the first systematically working on
our numerous roadblocks for Guile 2 migration after tackling a few
other high-level problems. In the time spans where his health
permitted it, he was able to significantly reduce the amount of
remaining problems for the Guile 2 migration after having started
working on them in 2010, making the goal that we finally reached
now more tangible for others to work on after he left us in 2015.
LilyPond 2.23.7 released March 26, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.7. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the
current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.2 version.
LilyPond 2.22.2 released! February 22, 2022
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.22.2 on 2-22-22. LilyPond
is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet
music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to
computer printouts.
This version includes improvements and fixes since the release of the
previous stable release in April 2021.
LilyPond 2.23.6 released February 06, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.6. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the
current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.1 version.
LilyPond 2.23.5 released November 28, 2021
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.5. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the
current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.1 version.
LilyPond 2.23.4 released October 10, 2021
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.4. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the
current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.1 version.
LilyPond 2.23.3 released July 4, 2021
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.3. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the
current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.1 version.
LilyPond 2.22.1 released! April 25, 2021
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.22.1. LilyPond is a
music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music
possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer
printouts.
This version includes improvements and fixes since the release of the
previous stable release in January 2021.
LilyPond 2.23.2 released April 11, 2021
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.2. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the
current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.0 version.
LilyPond 2.23.1 released March 23, 2021
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.1. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the
current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.0 version.
LilyPond 2.23.0 released January 24, 2021
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.0. This is termed a
development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the
current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.0 version.
LilyPond 2.22.0 released! January 10, 2021
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.22.0. LilyPond is a
music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music
possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer
printouts.
This version includes improvements and fixes since the branching of the
previous stable release in August 2017 (even though the final 2.20.0 was
only released in March 2020). A list of added features and other user-visible
changes can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/changes/
Behind the scenes, this release switches to Python 3 and includes a number of
performance improvements that should be noticeable for larger scores.
LilyPond 2.21.82 released December 14, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.21.82. This is a further pre-release test version, but these are usually
reliable. We encourage all users and developers to download this
version to test it to allow us to release a new stable version.
If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond,
we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.
LilyPond 2.21.81 released November 29, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.21.81. This is a further pre-release test version, but these are usually
reliable. We encourage all users and developers to download this
version to test it to allow us to release a new stable version.
If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond,
we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.
LilyPond 2.21.80 released November 1, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.21.80. This is a pre-release test version, but these are usually
reliable. We encourage all users and developers to download this
version to test it.
If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond,
we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.
LilyPond 2.21.7 released October 11, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.21.7. This is a development version, but these are usually
reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond,
we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.
LilyPond 2.21.6 released September 13, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.21.6. This is a development version, but these are usually
reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond,
we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.
LilyPond 2.21.5 released August 16, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.21.5. This is a development version, but these are usually
reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond,
we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.
LilyPond 2.21.4 released July 28, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.21.4. This is a development version, but these are usually
reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond,
we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.
LilyPond 2.21.3 released July 12, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.21.3. This is a development version, but these are usually
reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond,
we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.
LilyPond 2.21.2 released June 21, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.21.2. This is a development version, but these are usually
reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond,
we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.
LilyPond 2.21.1 released April 28, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.21.1. This is a development version, but these are usually
reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond,
we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.
LilyPond 2.21.0 released April 9, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.21.0. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond,
we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.
LilyPond 2.20.0 released! March 1, 2020
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.20.0.
LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
This version provides a number of updates, including
updated manuals. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version.
LilyPond 2.19.84 released February 4, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.84. This release is the final pre-release test version
for the upcoming stable 2.20 release. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.83 released October 16, 2018
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.83. This release is a further pre-release test version
for the upcoming stable 2.20 release. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.82 released June 24, 2018
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.82. This release is a further pre-release test version
for the upcoming stable 2.20 release. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.81 released January 28, 2018
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.81. This release is a further pre-release test version
for the upcoming stable 2.20 release. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.80 released October 14, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.80. This release is a pre-release test version for the upcoming
stable 2.20 release. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.65 released August 06, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.65. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.64 released July 15, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.64. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.63 released June 28, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.63. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.62 released June 10, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.62. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.61 released May 21, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.61. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.60 released May 08, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.60. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.59 released April 09, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.59. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.58 released March 26, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.58. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.57 released March 12, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.57. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.56 released February 26, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.56. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.55 released February 12, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.55. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.54 released January 4, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.54. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.53 released December 17, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.53. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.52 released December 4, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.52. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.51 released November 20, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.51. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.50 released November 6, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.50. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.49 released October 16, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.49. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.48 released September 13, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.48. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.47 released August 31, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.47. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.46 released July 26, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.46. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.45 released July 09, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.45. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.44 released June 21, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.44. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.43 released June 8, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.43. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.42 released May 15, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.42. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.41 released May 1, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.41. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
Two LilyPond projects in Google Summer of Code 2016 April 23, 2016
We are happy to see two students, Nathan Chou and Jeffery Shivers, working on
LilyPond as participants in the Google Summer of Code this year. We hope they
produce great results and stay in the developer community afterwards.
Nathan will tackle an annoying limitation, namely the unability of spanners
to cross voices. His work will make a class of ugly workarounds obsolete.
Jeffery will bring the ScholarLY package[1] to production quality and add a
LaTeX package to it, making it possible to create beautiful critical reports
from data encoded directly in the LilyPond score.
[1] https://github.com/openlilylib/scholarly
LilyPond 2.19.40 released April 17, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.40. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.39 released March 27, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.39. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.38 released March 13, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.38. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.37 released February 28, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.37. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.36 released January 31, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.36. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.35 released January 02, 2016
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.35. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.34 released December 22, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.34. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.33 released December 6, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.33. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.32 released November 22, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.32. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.31 released November 8, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.31. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.30 released October 25, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.30. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.29 released October 18, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.29. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.28 released September 27, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.28. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.27 released September 12, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.27. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.26 released August 27, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.26. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.25 released August 9, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.25. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.24 released July 26, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.24. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.23 released July 12, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.23. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.22 released June 28, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.22. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.21 released May 24, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.21. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.20 released May 10, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.20. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.19 released April 26, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.19. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.18 released April 5, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.18. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.17 released March 15, 2015
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.17. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.16 released February 28, 2015
At long last, we are very happy to announce the release of LilyPond
2.19.16. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
We would like to acknowledge and thank Masamichi Hosoda for making this
release possible with his work on updating GUB, the build tool.
LilyPond 2.19.15 released September 28, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.15. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work
in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.14 released September 14, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.14. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work
in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.13 released August 31, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.13. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work
in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.12 released August 17, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.12. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work
in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.11 released August 3, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.11. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work
in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.10 released July 13, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.10. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work
in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.9 released June 29, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.9. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work
in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.8 released June 15, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.8. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work
in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.7 released May 25, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.7. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work
in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.6 released May 11, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.6. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work
in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
version.
LilyPond 2.19.5 released April 20, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.5. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.
LilyPond 2.19.4 released April 6, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.4. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.
LilyPond 2.18.2 released! March 23, 2014
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.2.
LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
This version provides a number of updates to 2.18.0, including
updated manuals. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version.
LilyPond production named BEST EDITION 2014 March 11, 2014
We are thrilled that the edition of the songs of Oskar
Fried (1871-1941), published recently by our fellow contributors Urs Liska
and Janek Warchoł [1], received the "Musikeditionspreis BEST EDITION
2014" of the German Music Publishers’ Association [2]. The ceremony
took place at the Frankfurt Musikmesse.
We congratulate Janek and Urs for gaining such public recognition of
typographical and editorial excellence of their work. We are also delighted
to inform you that they intend to make their work available under a Free
license as soon as the publisher expenses are covered. Please support this
initiative by buying the printed volume through the publisher [3].
[1] https://lilypondblog.org/category/fried-songs
[2] https://www.best-edition.de
[3] http://www.sound-rel.de
LilyPond 2.19.3 released March 2, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.3. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.
LilyPond 2.18.1 February 16, 2014
We have released updated manuals for LilyPond’s stable version, 2.18.
The manuals are now for 2.18.1 and have a number of updates and improvements
over 2.18.0. There will be a further release of 2.18 in the future (2.18.2),
and this will include the updates to the manuals as well as some minor
enhancements to the LilyPond core functionality.
To summarise the current situation: stable LilyPond application: 2.18.0;
stable LilyPond manuals: 2.18.1; development for both: 2.19.2.
LilyPond 2.19.2 released February 2, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.2. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.
LilyPond 2.19.1 released January 19, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.1. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.
LilyPond 2.19.0 released January 5, 2014
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.0. This
release includes a number of enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.
LilyPond 2.18.0 released! December 29, 2013
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
be most visible:
-
Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
than a rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces
the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
-
Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
\override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
instead of the previous
\override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
-
Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
\tuplet 3/2 4 { c8 c c c c c }
instead of
\times 2/3 { c8 c c } \times 2/3 { c8 c c }
A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html
Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
- Main Developers:
Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian
Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner
Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen
Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil
Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin
Villenave, Janek Warchoł
- Core Contributors:
Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
- Documentation Writers:
Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
- Bug Squad:
Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
Palmer
- Support Team:
Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
- Translators:
Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
and numerous other contributors.
LilyPond 2.17.97 released! December 8, 2013
We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.97 as
a potential final beta release for the upcoming stable release 2.18. The
developers believe this to be feature-complete, the
documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be
overlooked. For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the
latest version, see Updating files with convert-ly.
Please test this release and report back any problems, see
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.17.96 released! November 24, 2013
We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.96 as
a further beta release for the upcoming stable release 2.18. The
developers believe the release to be feature-complete, the
documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be
overlooked. For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the
latest version, see Updating files with convert-ly.
Please test this release and report back any problems, see
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.17.95 released! November 3, 2013
We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.95 as
beta release for the upcoming stable release 2.18. The
developers are still busy finding solutions for some last-minute
problems, but the release is supposed to be feature-complete, the
documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be
overlooked. For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the
latest version, see Updating files with convert-ly.
Please test this release and report back any problems, see
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.17.29 released! October 20, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.29. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.28 released! October 6, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.28. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.27 released! September 26, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.27. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.26 released! September 8, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.26. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.25 released! August 25, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.25. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.24 released! August 11, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.24. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.23 released! July 28, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.23. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.22 released! July 14, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.22. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
This update cures the issue with the Windows version crashing with a problem
with positioning text.
LilyPond 2.17.21 released! June 30, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.21. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.20 released! June 9, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.20. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond blog. June 2, 2013
Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
lilypondblog.org!
LilyPond 2.17.19 released! May 26, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.19. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.18 released! May 11, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.18. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.17 released! April 27, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.17. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.16 released! April 13, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.16. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.15 released! March 30, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.15. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.14 released! March 10, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.14. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes (including putting span bars back
where they should be) and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.13 released! February 23, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.13. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.12 released! February 8, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.12. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.11 released! January 26, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.11. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.10 released! January 12 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.10. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.16.2 released! January 4, 2013
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
LilyPond 2.17.9 released! December 15, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.9. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.8 released! December 1, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.8. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.7 released! November 17, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.7. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.16.1 released! November 9, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
LilyPond 2.17.6 released! November 3, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.6. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.5 released! October 20, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.5. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.4 released! October 6, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.4. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly
recommended that normal users do not use this release,
and instead use the stable 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.3 released! September 23, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.3. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly
recommended that normal users do not use this release,
and instead use the stable 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.2 released! September 10, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.2. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly
recommended that normal users do not use this release,
and instead use the stable 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.1 released! August 28, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.1. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly
recommended that normal users do not use this release,
and instead use the stable 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.17.0 released! August 26, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.0. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly
recommended that normal users do not use this release,
and instead use the stable 2.16 version.
LilyPond 2.16.0 released! August 24, 2012
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0.
LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
main stable version. A few major improvements are:
-
Support for kievan square notation
-
User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
-
Music functions have become quite more versatile
A full list of new features is given in:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html
Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
Main development team:
Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
Jan Warchoł
Programming contributors:
Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
Documentation contributors:
James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
Bug squad:
Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
James Lowe
Support:
Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
Translation contributors:
Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
LilyPond 2.15.95 released! August 11, 2012
We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.95.
With this release, development on version 2.15 is frozen for the
upcoming 2.16 stable release and only open to bug fixes.
All users are urged to try this version to ensure the best
quality of the upcoming stable release. If you discover any
problems, please send us Bug reports.
New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the “Changes” manual
on the website section about Development.
LilyPond 2.15.42 released! August 02, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.42. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
The LilyPond Report #27. August 2, 2012
The LilyPond Report is back, with some interesting insights on
new Scheme-related features recently added by our community’s only paid
developer David Kastrup (thanks to your
continuing donations). Also
to be found in this issue are an overview of some lesser-known LilyPond
companion projects, and a handful of more shallow factoids.
Come
read LilyPond Report 27 now; comments and contributions are
warmly encouraged!
Release candidate withdrawn July 11, 2012
We have discovered a regression since 2.14.2, so lilypond 2.15.41
is no longer a candidate for the 2.16.0 release. However, please
continue testing it – we would like to discover (and fix!) any
more regressions as soon as possible. If you discover any
problems, please send us Bug reports.
Release candidate 8 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.41 released! July 4, 2012
LilyPond 2.15.41 is out; this is the eighth release candidate of
the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be
on 18 July 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.15.40 released! June 05, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.40. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
Release candidate withdrawn June 01, 2012
We have discovered a regression since 2.14.2, so lilypond 2.15.39
is no longer a candidate for the 2.16.0 release. However, please
continue testing it – we would like to discover (and fix!) any
more regressions as soon as possible. If you discover any
problems, please send us Bug reports.
Release candidate 7 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.39 released! May 22, 2012
LilyPond 2.15.39 is out; this is the seventh release candidate of
the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be
on 05 June 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
The LilyPond Report #26. May 22, 2012
The LilyPond Report is back, with a new editor on board -
Pavel Roskin, who tells us about his adventures in strange lands
of compiler bugs! There is also a detailed report about current
development status, and an analysis of example LilyPond output -
see for yourself how close (or how far?) are we from matching
the quality of hand-engraved scores.
Come
read LilyPond Report 26 now; comments and contributions are
warmly encouraged!
Release candidate 6 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.38 released! May 3, 2012
LilyPond 2.15.38 is out; this is the sixth release candidate of
the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
Update: Due to a few Critical bugs, another release
candidate will be required.
LilyPond takes part in Google Summer of Code 2012! April 25, 2012
Being a part of GNU project, we are participating in
Google Summer of Code program, which offers students stipends for
working on open source software.
Our contributor Janek Warchoł was accepted for 2012 edition of GSoC.
He will be working on advanced lyrics positioning in LilyPond.
Release candidate 5 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.37 released! April 19, 2012
LilyPond 2.15.37 is out; this is the fifth release candidate of
the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be
on 03 May 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
Release candidate 4 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.36 released! April 6, 2012
LilyPond 2.15.36 is out; this is the fourth release candidate of
the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be
on 20 April 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
The LilyPond Report #25. Apr 1st, 2012
The LilyPond Report is back, with a rather unusual
issue featuring our young Polish contributor Janek Warchoł!
Also included in this issue are quite a few unexpected items,
including (but not limited to)… a cooking recipe!
Come
read LilyPond Report 25 now; comments and contributions are
warmly encouraged!
LilyPond 2.15.35 released! Mar 28, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.35. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.34 released! Mar 19, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.34. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.33 released! Mar 08, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.33. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
The LilyPond Report #24. Mar 5, 2012
A new issue of the LilyPond Report is now
available for reading; topics include a request for funding,
an article about exciting new features in LilyPond grammar,
and an overview of LilyPond-based web applications.
Come
read LilyPond Report 24 now; comments and contributions are
warmly encouraged!
LilyPond 2.15.32 released! Mar 03, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.32. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.31 released! Feb 29, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.31. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
Release candidate 3 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.30 released! Feb 17, 2012
LilyPond 2.15.30 is out; this is the third release candidate of
the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be
on 02 March 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.15.29 released! Feb 9, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.29. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.28 released! Feb 3, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.28. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.27 released! Jan 24, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.27. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
The LilyPond Report #23. Jan 20, 2012
The LilyPond Report is back, with developer
David Kastrup as a new editor! This issue features
an exposé on some of the new, handy commands
recently added to LilyPond, as well as an interview
with LilyPond contributor and composer Mike Solomon.
Come
read LilyPond Report 23 now; comments and contributions are
warmly encouraged!
LilyPond 2.15.26 released! Jan 16, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.26. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
The 2.15.25 has been skipped due to build problems.
LilyPond 2.15.24 released! Jan 07, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.24. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.23 released! Dec 21, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.23. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.22 released! Dec 15, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.22. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.21 released! Dec 6, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.21. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.20 released! Nov 24, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.20. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.19 released! Nov 18, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.19. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.18 released! Nov 12, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.18. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.17 released! Nov 10, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.17. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.16 released! October 28, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.16. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.15 released! October 24, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.15. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.14 released! October 7, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.14. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.13 released! September 27, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.13. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
candidate.
Release candidate 2 cancelled Sep 23, 2011
The release countdown is cancelled due to the discovery of a
Critical regression.
Release candidate 2 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.12 released! Sep 20, 2011
LilyPond 2.15.12 is out; this is the second release candidate of
the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be
on 27 Sep 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.15.11 released! September 11, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.11. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to the possibility of a few Critical bugs, this is
not the next release candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.10 released! September 6, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.10. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few outstanding Critical bugs, this is not the
next release candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.9 released! August 30, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.9. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes, and also adds
support for MacOS X 10.7.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
note that due to a few outstanding Critical bugs, this is not the
next release candidate.
Release candidate 1 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.8 released! Aug 01, 2011
LilyPond 2.15.8 is out; this is the first release candidate of
the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be
on 08 Aug 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.15.7 released! July 29, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.7. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.
LilyPond 2.15.6 released! July 26, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.6. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.
LilyPond 2.14.2 released! July 25, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.14.2. This
fixes a few minor bugs in the stable version, and should cause no
problems. We recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
LilyPond 2.15.5 released! July 12, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.5. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.
LilyPond 2.15.4 released! July 4, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.4. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.
LilyPond 2.15.3 released! June 27, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.3. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.
LilyPond 2.15.2 released! June 18, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.2. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.
LilyPond 2.14.1 released! June 12, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.14.1. This
fixes a few minor bugs in the stable version, and should cause no
problems. We recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
LilyPond 2.15.1 released! June 11, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.1. This is
the beginning of a new unstable development effort, and adds the
usual number of bugs.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.
LilyPond 2.15.0 released! June 7, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.0. This is
the beginning of a new unstable development effort, and adds the
usual number of bugs.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use
this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.
LilyPond 2.14.0 released! June 6, 2011
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.14.
LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
Many improvements have been made in the past two and a half years
since the previous main stable version. A few major improvements
are:
-
LilyPond is now licensed under the GNU GPL v3 or higher.
-
The vertical spacing engine has been drastically changed, making
it much more flexible and easier to control.
-
Automatic beaming is now more flexible, and beam collisions are
avoided.
A full list of new features is given in:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/changes/index.html
Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.14 was brought to you by...
Main development team:
Trevor Daniels, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp,
Werner Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman,
Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark
Polesky, Neil Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco
Vila, Valentin Villenave.
Programming contributors:
Sven Axelsson, Pál Benkő, Bertrand Bordage, Frédéric Bron, Peter Chubb, Hajo Dezelski, Richard
Gay, Keith OHara, Andrew Hawryluk, Christian Hitz, Marc Hohl,
Henning Hraban Ramm, Ian Hulin, Michael Käppler, Marek Klein,
Kieren MacMillan, Thomas Morgan, Benjamin Peterson, Nathan Reed,
Julien Rioux, Boris Shingarov, Patrick Schmidt, Owen Tuz, Jan Warchoł, Andrew
Wilson, Rodolfo Zitellini.
Font contributors:
Keith OHara, Marc Hohl, Alexander Kobel, Carsten Steger.
Documentation contributors:
Colin Campbell, Andrew Hawryluk, James Lowe, Mike Moral, Ralph
Palmer, David Pounder, Patrick Schmidt.
Bug squad:
James E. Bailey, Colin Campbell, Phil Holmes, Urs Liska, Ralph
Palmer, Kieren MacMillan, Dmytro O. Redchuk.
Binaries support contributors:
Christian Hitz.
Translation contributors:
Federico Bruni, Dénes Harmath, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Tineke de
Munnik, Till Paala, Ralf Wildenhues, Yoshiki Sawada.
Release candidate 7 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.63 released! May 30, 2011
LilyPond 2.13.63 is out; this is the seventh release candidate of
the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be
on June 6, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.13.62 released! May 24, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.62. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
Please note that this is not the next release candidate,
due to a few remaining Critical bugs.
LilyPond 2.13.61 released! May 1, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.61. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
Please note that this is not the next release candidate,
due to a few remaining Critical bugs.
LilyPond 2.13.60 released! April 16, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.60. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
Please note that this is not the next release candidate,
due to a few remaining Critical bugs.
Linux Journal Magazine article - April 2011
Linux Magazine publishes an
article in the May 2011 issue titled
Projects on the Move. It is an introduction to MuseScore,
LilyPond and Chordii. Author Carla Schroder states “LilyPond is
driven from the command line, but don’t let the lack of a GUI scare
you away; LilyPond is user-friendly and easy to learn”, and provides
a hands-on example.
LilyPond 2.13.59 released! April 10, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.59. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
Please note that this is not the next release candidate,
due to a few remaining Critical bugs.
Release candidate 6 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.58 released! April 7, 2011
LilyPond 2.13.58 is out; this is the sixth release candidate of
the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be
on April 14, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
Release candidate 5 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.57 released! April 3, 2011
LilyPond 2.13.57 is out; this is the fifth release candidate of
the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be
on April 10, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
Release candidate 4 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.56 released! Mar 29, 2011
LilyPond 2.13.56 is out; this is the fourth release candidate of
the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be
on April 5, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.13.55 released! Mar 22, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.55. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
Please note that this is not the fourth release candidate,
due to a few remaining Critical bugs.
Release candidate 3 withdrawn Mar 15, 2011
We have discovered a regression since 2.12.3, so lilypond 2.13.54
is no longer a candidate for the 2.14.0 release. However, please
continue testing it – we would like to discover (and fix!) any
more regressions as soon as possible. If you discover any
problems, please send us Bug reports.
Release candidate 3 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.54 released! Mar 13, 2011
LilyPond 2.13.54 is out; this is the third release candidate of
the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be
on March 27, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.13.53 released! Mar 6, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.53. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
Please note that this is not the third release candidate,
due to a few remaining Critical bugs.
LilyPond 2.13.52 released! Mar 1, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.52. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
Please note that this is not the third release candidate,
due to a few remaining Critical bugs.
LilyPond 2.13.51 released! Feb 22, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.51. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
Please note that this is not the third release candidate,
due to a few remaining Critical bugs.
LilyPond 2.13.50 released! Feb 13, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.50. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
Please note that this is not the third release candidate.
Due to a number of untested changes to our build process, we
cannot be at all confident about the quality of this release.
New Chinese and Czech translations of the web page! Feb 11,2011
Two new languages are added to our web page: Chinese by Ben Luo, and
Czech by Pavel Fric. It is a work in progress but they are fully
functional. That makes ten languages to choose from!
Release candidate 2 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.49 released! Feb 9, 2011
LilyPond 2.13.49 is out; this is the second release candidate of
the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be
on Feb 23, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.13.48 released! Feb 5, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.48. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond 2.13.47 released! Jan 28, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.47. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
Release candidate 1 withdrawn Jan 13, 2011
We have discovered a regression since 2.12.3, so lilypond 2.13.46
is no longer a candidate for the 2.14.0 release. However, please
continue testing it – we would like to discover (and fix!) any
more regressions as soon as possible. If you discover any
problems, please send us Bug reports.
Release candidate 1 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.46 released! Jan 12, 2011
LilyPond 2.13.46 is out; this is the first release candidate of
the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to
experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are
listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be
on 26 Jan 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.13.45 released! Jan 3, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.45. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
Beta test three of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.44 released! Dec 25, 2010
LilyPond 2.13.44 is out; this is the third beta test of the
upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment
with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the
“Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There is still one Critical problem with this release: in one
case, the vertical spacing is much too compressed. If you decide
to test this version, do not be surprised to discover problems;
just send us polite Bug reports.
Beta test two of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.43 released! Dec 14, 2010
LilyPond 2.13.43 is out; this is the second beta test of the
upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment
with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the
“Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There is still one Critical problem with this release: in one
case, the vertical spacing is much too compressed. If you decide
to test this version, do not be surprised to discover problems;
just send us polite Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.13.42 released! Dec 8, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.42. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
Please note that this is not the second beta test. Due
to a number of untested changes to our build process, we cannot be
at all confident about the quality of this release.
LilyPond 2.13.41 released! Dec 4, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.41. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
Please note that this is not the second beta test. Due
to a number of untested changes to our build process, we cannot be
at all confident about the quality of this release.
LilyPond 2.13.40 released! Nov 21, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.40. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
Please note that this is not the second beta test. Due
to a number of untested changes to our build process, we cannot be
at all confident about the quality of this release.
Beta test one of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.39 released! Nov 15, 2010
LilyPond 2.13.39 is out; this is the first beta test of the
upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment
with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the
“Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are still some Critical problems with this release: the
vertical spacing is suspicious in two cases, and lilypond can
crash with some odd input. If you decide to test 2.13.39, do not
be surprised to discover problems; just send us polite
Bug reports.
The LilyPond Report #22. Nov 3, 2010
The LilyPond Report is back, with some surprises and exciting
news for the whole LilyPond community! To be found in this issue is
an up-to-date, complete list of all LilyPond mailing lists and forums
around the world. Also, for the very first time our special guest
today is LilyPond’s co-founder and core developer
Jan Nieuwenhuizen, who has been busy these past months –
read on to find out what for!
Come
read LilyPond Report 22 now; comments and contributions are
warmly encouraged!
Alpha test four of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.38 released! Oct 31, 2010
LilyPond 2.13.38 is out; this is the fourth alpha test of the
upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment
with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the
“Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are still some Critical problems with this release: the
vertical spacing is suspicious in two cases, and lilypond can
crash with some odd input. If you decide to test 2.13.38, do not
be surprised to discover problems; just send us polite
Bug reports.
Alpha test three of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.37 released! Oct 25, 2010
LilyPond 2.13.37 is out; this is the third alpha test of the
upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment
with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the
“Changes” manual on the website section about
Development.
There are still some Critical problems with this release: the
vertical spacing is suspicious in two cases, and lilypond can
crash with some odd input. If you decide to test 2.13.37, do not
be surprised to discover problems; just send us polite
Bug reports.
LilyPond 2.13.36 released! Oct 19, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.36. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
Please note that this is not the third alpha test. Due
to a number of untested changes to our build process, we cannot be
at all confident about the quality of this release.
The LilyPond Report #21. Oct 3, 2010
The LilyPond Report is back, with its two
“grumpy-and-fluffy” editors! This issue mainly deals with
microtonal notation in LilyPond, but does also include a how-to
about running LilyPond from an USB key, not to forget the regular
release news, the bug report of the Report, and some news from
the frog pond!
Come
read LilyPond Report 21 now; comments and contributions are
warmly encouraged!
LilyPond 2.13.33 released! Sep 10, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.33. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond 2.13.32 released! Sep 3, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.32. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond Report #20. Sep 2, 2010
The LilyPond Report is back, with its two
“grumpy-and-fluffy” editors! This issue contains a review of an
online notation editor using lilypond, along with the regular
release news, snippet of the report, news from the frog pond, and
the bug report of the report!
Come
read LilyPond Report 20 now; comments and contributions are
warmly encouraged!
LilyPond 2.13.31 released! Aug 24, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.31. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond 2.13.30 released! Aug 13, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.30. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond Report #19. Aug 9, 2010
The LilyPond Report is back, with its two
“grumpy-and-fluffy” editors! This issue contains some
conference news, along with the regular release news, snippet of
the report, news from the frog pond, and the bug report of the
report!
Come
read LilyPond Report 19 now; comments and contributions are
warmly encouraged!
LilyPond 2.13.29 released! Aug 4, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.29. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
This release radically changes the autobeaming rules, so use extra
caution and expect breakage.
LilyPond 2.13.28 released! July 13, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.28. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
This release includes some major untested changes to the windows
lilypad editor. Windows users should not be using this release
because it is intended for developers only, but you ignore these
warnings and try it anyway, use extra caution.
LilyPond 2.13.27 released! July 5, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.27. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
Testing our new website! June 29, 2010
We’re testing our new website! For the next 24 hours, the new
website will be the default website; after that, we will switch
back to the old website while we examine feedback and make
improvements to the new website.
Please send feedback to lilypond-user; you can find more
information on our page about Contact.
Note: There are a few known problems with translations. If you
are a non-English speaker, you may prefer to view the old lilypond
website at:
https://lilypond.org/web/
LilyPond 2.13.26 released! June 26, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.26. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond 2.13.25 released! June 20, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.25. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond 2.13.24 released! June 14, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.24. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond 2.13.23 released! June 3, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.23. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond 2.13.22 released! May 27, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.22. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond 2.13.21 released! May 12, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.21. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
This release should be of particular interest to package
maintainers: we have made a few changes to the configure script
and the required libraries. Barring any urgent bug reports, this
is the build system and libraries that will be used for the next
stable release.
LilyPond Report #18. May 11, 2010
The LilyPond Report is back, with its two
“grumpy-and-fluffy” editors! This issue will be filled
with emotion and coolness, paper bags and zigzag-ending
staves, plus the usual Frogs and Bugs.
Come
read LilyPond Report 18 now; comments and contributions are
warmly encouraged!
LilyPond 2.13.20 released! May 5, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.20. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number
of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
Minor syntax change: the undocumented \cresc and
\decresc have changed. In addition, the [options] for the
LaTeX mode of lilypond-book now comes after the
{lilypond}, following normal LaTeX practice. As always,
see the Changes document for more information.
LilyPond 2.13.19 released! April 24, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.19. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, 11
critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond 2.13.18 released! April 16, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.18. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes, along with improved
website translations. However, 14 critical issues still remain,
so this release is intended for developers only.
LilyPond 2.13.17 released! April 2, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.17. This
release includes bugfixes for 4 critical issues. However, 15
critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for
developers only.
LilyPond 2.13.16 released! March 15, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.16. This
release is intended for developers only, and includes the usual
round of bugfixes.
LilyPond 2.13.15 released! March 4, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.15. This
release is intended for developers only, and includes a few
updates to the binary build process in addition to the usual round
of bugfixes.
LilyPond Report #17. March 1, 2010
Yay, the Report is back, with a new team! It has been said that
two heads are better than one — does it apply to newsletters as
well? Read on and let us know! In this issue we’ll talk about
websites and poetry, frogs and bugs, not to mention an extensive
review of the Frescobaldi editor!
What are you waiting for? Come
read LilyPond Report 17 now!
LilyPond 2.13.14 released! February 27, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.14. This
release is intended for developers only, and includes a large
translation update in addition to the usual round of bugfixes.
LilyPond 2.13.13 released! February 13, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.13. This
release is intended for developers only, and fixes various
problems with documentation build system as well as adding an
output-preview-framework for our SVG backend. In addition, the
binaries are now approximately 6 megabytes smaller.
LilyPond 2.13.12 released! February 2, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.12. This
release is intended for developers only, and brings more stability
and fewer bugs to the build system and Contributor’s Guide.
LilyPond 2.13.11 released! January 16, 2010
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.11. This
release is intended for developers only, and brings a number of
improvements to the build system, Contributor’s Guide, and fixes 4
critical regressions against earlier versions.
LilyPond 2.13.10 released! December 31, 2009
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.10. This
release is intended for developers only, and brings a number of
improvements such as predictable regression test output filenames
and English names for feta filenames.
LilyPond 2.12.3 released! December 20, 2009
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.12.3. This
version contains the long-awaited fix for our GUI on MacOS X 10.5
and 10.6. In addition to the GUI fixes, this version contains
dozens of bugfixes backported from the unstable development
version.
We recommend that all users upgrade to this version. This is the
last planned release in the 2.12 stable series; development now
shifts towards the upcoming 2.14 series.
LilyPond 2.13.9 released! December 12, 2009
LilyPond 2.13.9 is now out. From 2.13.9 onwards, LilyPond is
licensed under the GNU GPL v3+ for code, and the GNU FDL 1.3+ for
documentation. In addition to the usual round of bugfixes, this
release adds a shortcut for repeated chords.
Please note that 2.13 is an unstable development branch;
normal users should continue to use 2.12.
New Website! October 3, 2009
As you can see, we have a new website design. Many thanks to
texi2html and CSS for being so flexible!
LilyPond Report #16. September 6, 2009
The LilyPond Report is back! This short, informal opinion column is
about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community.
Read issue 16
now!
LilyPond 2.13.3. July 2, 2009
This unstable release contains working menus in OSX 10.5; many
thanks to Christian Hitz for fixing this long-standing problem!
This release also contains numerous other bugfixes and features
such as ties with variable thickness, partially dashed slurs, and
eyeglasses.
We are planning another 2.12 release in the next week or two,
which will include the menu fixes for OSX 10.5. Normal users may
wish to wait for this release rather than using an unstable
release.
Changes,
Development.
A LilyPond weboldala magyarul. May 22, 2009
Elkészült a lilypond.org nagy részének magyar fordítása a LilyPond
honosítási projekt első lépéseként. A projekt célja a LilyPond
szabad kottaszedő szoftver minél széleskörűbben elérhetővé tétele
a magyar felhasználók számára a teljes weboldal és dokumentáció
lefordítása révén. A teljes dokumentáció lefordításához
közreműködőket keresünk. Ha részt vennél a honosításban, küldj egy
e-mailt a harmathdenes AT gmail.com címre!
Harmath Dénes, a LilyPond honosítási projekt
vezetője
The LilyPond Report #15. May 18, 2009
The LilyPond Report is a short, informal opinion column about the LilyPond project:
its team, its world, its community.
Follow this link
to read the full issue...
The LilyPond Report #14. April 13, 2009
The LilyPond Report is back, on a new website!
This short, informal, weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community.
Follow this link to read the full issue...
LilyPond 2.12.2 and 2.13.0 — March 21, 2009
As a very belated announcement, the stable version of LilyPond is
now 2.12.2, and the next development version has begun with
2.13.0.
LilyPond 2.11.65 — Release Candidate. December 2, 2008
This release has improvements to MusicXML import, contributed by
Reinhold Kainhofer, and adds support for splitting a book in several
book parts, contributed by Nicolas Sceaux.
Nested contexts of the same type are now allowed with any depth, and
overriding nested properties can be done with list syntax, thanks to
Neil Puttock.
This is hopefully the last Release Candidate before stable release 2.12,
so you are welcome to test this release if you can to report new
issues.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.64. November 18, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.64 is available. MusicXML import has been improved,
including church modes support, and a few bugs in the compilation
and documentation building processes are fixed. The three
documentation manuals are now fully translated in Spanish, thanks
to Francisco Vila. The font cache problem in Windows binaries
which used to cause excessive slowness should be fixed.
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.63. October 29, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.63 is available. This release has lots of updates to the
documentation and translations.
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.62 – Release Candidate. October 11, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.62 is available. This is is one of the last releases
before 2.12, so testing it is encouraged. In addition to a bugfix
in \tempo command, this release has lot of updates
to Spanish and German documentation translations, and the
stylesheet for HTML documentation has been improved.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.61 available. October 1, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.61 has been released. It has updates to
documentation translations, and a new automatic accidentals style
(teaching) has been added.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.60 available. September 25, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.60 has been released. A new style of double repeat
bar line has been added, and printallheaders variable in
score block has been renamed to print-all-headers.
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.59 available. September 20, 2008
Release 2.11.59 is out. LilyPond now uses 64 bit integers for
rational numbers, which allows typesetting more complex polymetric
music. This release also has updates to German and Spanish
translations of the documentation.
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.58 available. September 13, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.58 is a beta release, which means the next stable
release is expected in a few weeks. This release is also special,
as it includes code which supports more flexible automatic
accidentals rules, written several months ago by Rune Zedeler,
deceased since then. All the development team express their
condolences to his family and his friends. Besides this,
automatic beaming has been improved by Carl Sorensen, support
for creating stem flags in a new style has been contributed by
Reinhold Kainhofer, and a few bugs have been fixed.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.57 available. August 27, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.57 is out. This release adds support for harp pedal
diagrams, contributed by Reinhold Kainhofer, and some changes in
markup command names have been made.
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.56 available. August 17, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.56 is out. This release features transposable fret
diagrams, contributed by Carl Sorensen. Translations status pages
are now available from the documentation start page. Two
predefined commands \pointAndClickOn,
\pointAndClickOff have also been added.
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.55 available. August 6, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.55 is out. This release fixes several bugs, and for octavation brackets
set-octavation has been replaced by a more user-friendly command, \ottava.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.54 available. July 30, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.54 is out. This release fixes a bug in tie formatting
following a line break, and changes the behavior of short-indent
so that short instrument names are no longer indented in the margin.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.53 available. July 23, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.53 is out. This release fixes a lot of bugs.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.52 available. July 14, 2008
Release 2.11.52 fixes wrong offset of a bar number when it follows
a breath mark, and syntax changes made in recent development
releases are now fully listed on the News page.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.51 available. July 8, 2008
Release 2.11.51 has a couple of bugfixes, and a lot of changes in
predefined command names. Fret diagrams formatting has been
improved by Carl Sorensen, it is now controlled
by fret-diagram-details property.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.50 available. July 2, 2008
Release 2.11.50 adds support for metronome marks with text, and
backslashed numbers for figured bass, contributed by
Reinhold Kainhofer.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
The LilyPond Report #13. June 23, 2008
This short, informal, weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community.
Follow this link to read the full issue...
The LilyPond Report #12. June 16, 2008
This short, informal, weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community.
Follow this link to read the full issue...
LilyPond 2.11.49 released. June 12, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.49 is out. It fixes a number of bugs, including bugs in beams formatting.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.48 released. June 9, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.48 is out. This release fixes a few bugs, and
\compressMusic has been renamed
to \scaleDurations.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
The LilyPond Report #11. June 9, 2008
This short, informal, weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community.
Follow this link to read the full issue...
The LilyPond Report #10. June 2, 2008
Welcome to this special tenth issue of the LilyPond Report, entirely dedicated to Algorithmic Composition systems.
Follow this link to read the full issue...
LilyPond 2.11.47 released. May 28, 2008
LilyPond now allows all text context properties to be markups,
except in \lyricmode. This release also fixes
regression tests maintenance for developers.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.46 available. May 22, 2008
Release 2.11.46 fixes a lot of bugs and includes a rewrite of
dynamics engravers. Support for slur-shaped arpeggios has been added.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
RSS feed - May 21, 2008
A RSS feed is now available on lilypond.org. It contains all
news announced on the web site start page: releases, LilyPond
report, new translations of the site and publications.
Feed URL.
The info mailing list (see Contact) is still used to
announce releases and special events.
The LilyPond Report #9. May 05, 2008
Welcome to this ninth issue of the LilyPond Report!
This short, informal, weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community.
Follow this link to read the full issue...
LilyPond 2.11.45 available. April 26, 2008
Release 2.11.45 fixes a couple of bugs in the formatting
engine. lilypond-book has been improved, with better
performance, a bugfix about included files, and more flexibility
for preprocessing documents with LaTeX variants. Support for
enclosing text in a rounded box has been contributed by Valentin
Villenave.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.44 available. April 14, 2008
Release 2.11.44 is available. Support for figured bass and chord
names has been added to the MusicXML
converter.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
lilypond.org日本語訳 (lilypond.org Japanese translation). 2008年4月8日 (April 4, 2008)
lilypond.orgのいくつかのページの日本語訳が出来ました。
LilyPond 2.11.43 available. March 31, 2008
Release 2.11.43 has been available since March 27. It fixes a
couple of formatting bugs, and the font cache problem with
MS-Windows binaries which caused excessive slowness has been
fixed.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.42 available. March 9, 2008
Release 2.11.42 is out. It fixes some formatting and spacing
bugs.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
Comparison of music engraving with Finale and LilyPond. February 25, 2008
In three articles, Andrew Hawryluk compares Finale and LilyPond in
general terms, and evaluates in detail engraving capabilities of
both pieces of software. The second article is an instructive
analysis of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Prelude 6 engraving, including
comparisons with a reference hand-engraved edition.
Read the articles.
LilyPond 2.11.41 available. February 25, 2008
Release 2.11.41 is available. It has a few bugfixes, updated
program messages in French, German, Spanish and Vietnamese, and
updates to the MusicXML converter.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.37 available. January 3, 2008
Release 2.11.37 is available. It has a few bugfixes, and
documentation changes. (Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.11.36 available. December 13, 2007
Release 2.11.36 is now available. It has many bugfixes, updates
for MusicXML import, and it includes major documentation changes from
Grand Documentation Project.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.31 available. August 31, 2007
Release 2.11.31 is now available. It has more bugfixes, updates
for MusicXML import and lots of updates for the translations.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.30 available. August 20, 2007
Release 2.11.30 is now available. It has various bugfixes among
others in the new spacing code, MusicXML import and lots of updates
for the translations.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.10.29 and 2.11.29 available. August 11, 2007
Release 2.11.29 is now available. 2.10.29 has a few small fixes.
2.11.29 has several bugfixes, among others in the new spacing code,
and lots of updates for the translations.
Bugfixes 2.10,
Bugfixes 2.11,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.28 for FreeBSD x86_64. August 10, 2007
Release 2.11.28 is now available as a binary installer for
FreeBSD x86_64. Download
the installer and
do sh lilypond-2.11.28-1.freebsd-64.sh in a command window.
LilyPond 2.11.28 available - July 25, 2007
Release 2.11.28 has several updates to the manual and its
translations, an plethora of bugfixes and a complete cleanup of the
spacing engine code.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.26 available - June 8, 2007
Release 2.11.26 supports page markers, e.g., for use in
tables-of-contents. In addition, it fixes a number of bugs. Enjoy!
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.10.25 and 2.11.25 available - May 20, 2007
Release 2.11.25 has support for toplevel page breaking commands,
and page breaking as a whole has been sped up significantly. Enjoy!
Bugfixes 2.10,
Bugfixes 2.11,
Old downloads.
Übersetzung der Dokumentation - 10. April 2007
Die Kapitel 1-5 (der Abschnitt für Anfänger) des LilyPond-Benutzerhandbuchs
sind auf deutsch übersetzt — sie sind erhältlich für die Changes
online und Old downloads.
Traduction de la documentation en français - 25 février 2007
Les chapitres 1 à 4 et 6 du manuel de l’utilisateur sont désormais traduits, et
disponibles en ligne —
version 2.10,
version 2.11.
Les traductions sont également incluses dans la
documentation téléchargeable.
LilyPond 2.11.18 available - February 12, 2007
This release fixes still more bugs, and included
singing support through festival contributed by Milan Zamazal.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.10.15 and 2.11.15 available - February 1, 2007
This release will stretch piano staves on a
system-by-system basis and add a few glyphs: a black harmonic note
head and the slashed mirrored flat.
Bugfixes 2.10,
Bugfixes 2.11,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.10.14 and 2.11.14 available - January 26, 2007
This release has a rewrite of the line-spanner code, responsible for
among other glissandi and text-crescendos, making them more flexible.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads
LilyPond 2.10.13 and 2.11.13 available - January 17, 2007
This release fixes a few minor but irritating bugs. In addition, the
2.11 release has updates of the tutorial.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.12 available - January 17, 2007
This release fixes lots of bugs. In particular, the tie formatting has
been further improved, and memory usage has been improved enormously.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.10.12 available - January 17, 2007
This release mirrors 2.11.12. Notably, it has the same memory
usage improvements.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.11 available - January 11, 2007
This release has further fixes for popular bugs. Timing of the MIDI
output won’t get confused by tuplets and grace notes anymore. Some fat
has also been trimmed of the skyline code performance.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.10 available - January 8, 2007
LilyPond 2.11.10 has further review of the test-suite, performance and
code coverage. This brought to light several problems that were
fixed. Notably, 2.11.10 fixes lots of regressions in optical
correction spacing and MIDI dynamics. Also, this version is 20 to 50
% faster than previous 2.11 releases.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.10.10 available - January 8, 2007
This release fixes several popular bugs, among others: MIDI files
that go silent after (de)crescendi, and tuplets problems with quoting
and part-combining.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.9 and 2.10.9 available - January 3, 2007
This release has a couple of bugfixes, and —in 2.11.9—
further improvements in the regression test suite
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
lilypond.org auf deutsch - 31. Dezember 2006
Die LilyPond-Webseiten sind jetzt auch auf deutsch übersetzt!
lilypond.org en español - December 29, 2006
¡Ya está disponible la versión en español del sitio web de LilyPond!
LilyPond 2.11.6 available - December 30, 2006
This release supports arbitrary fractional alterations, allowing
music with different microtonal conventions to be typeset.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.5 available - December 24, 2006
These releases complete the translation infrastructure for
Documentation.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.4 available - December 21, 2006
The vertical spacing improvements that were introduced in 2.11.0 now work
within a system as well as between systems.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
LinuxPPC binaries available! - December 19, 2006
From now on, our GUB binary builds include support for Linux/PPC. (Old downloads)
Traduction du tutoriel en français. December 13, 2006
Fruit du travail d’une équipe de traducteurs, le tutoriel en français est
maintenant disponible en ligne.
Version 2.10,
Version 2.11.
LilyPond 2.10.2 available - December 12, 2006
A new stable release of LilyPond is available.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.10.1 available - December 3, 2006
A new stable release of LilyPond is available.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.11.0 available - November 27, 2006
This release has improved support for vertical spacing. (Changes, Old downloads)
GIT repository online - November 11, 2006
LilyPond development has moved over its source code to GIT, the fast version control
system. Check out our repository at gnu.org.
LilyPond 2.9.29 available - November 5, 2006
This release has many more bugfixes.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.9.28 available - November 3, 2006
This release has many more bugfixes.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.9.27 available - October 28, 2006
This release has a new FretBoards context, and some further
bugfixes.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Old downloads.
Music streams thesis available - October 21, 2006
The last months, Erik Sandberg has been overhauling the internals of
Lily. This change introduces a new intermediate format, Music Streams,
which will make it easier get music data out of LilyPond. A copy of
the thesis is now available from lilypond.org
(Publications).
LilyPond 2.9.25 available - October 18, 2006
This release has more bugfixes; from now on, binaries are also
available for x86/64.
Bugfixes,
Old downloads.
LilyPond 2.9.24 available - October 15, 2006
This release has support for right hand guitar fingerings, and offers
some bugfixes. (Changes,
Bugfixes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.23 available - October 12, 2006
This release cuts fragments of EPS directly from your finished score,
and makes it easier to insert ties into lyrics. (Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.22 available - October 9, 2006
Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2.10! (Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.21 available - October 4, 2006
Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2.10! (Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.20 available - October 3, 2006
Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2.10! (Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.17 available - September 2, 2006
This release fixes many bugs. Among others, MacOS X QuickTime now
honors tempo changes are in the MIDI output. (Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.16 available - August 25, 2006
In this release, chords may be partially tied and lyric extenders have
tunable padding. Moreover, many bugs were fixed
(Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.15 available - August 20, 2006
This releases fixes many bugs in the 2.9.14 release. (Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.8.6 available - August 8, 2006
This release contains a few minor bugfixes; the source tarball is also
available. (Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.14 available - August 4, 2006
This release supports instrument name changes, dotted barlines and
better spacing for floating grace notes. In addition, it contains
ongoing work by Erik Sandberg to extend the interpretation phase with
stream support. (Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.13 available - July 23, 2006
This release supports doits and falls, and more tuning options for
grace note spacing and tuplet brackets. (Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.12 available - July 18, 2006
This release supports pdftex for lilypond-book, and uses pdfTeX for
generating manuals, so page numbers and references are now clickable.
(Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.11 available - July 12, 2006
This release wraps improvements of the last two weeks. As a new
feature, it supports tunable tuplet number formatting for nested
tuplets. (Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.10 available - June 15, 2006
This releases fixes a couple of bugs in 2.9.9.
(Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.9 available - June 15, 2006
This releases fixes many bugs in 2.9.8 and earlier.
(Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.8 available - June 6, 2006
2.9.8 has support for different spacing sections within a single
score, and better infrastructure for automated regression testing.
(Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.8.4 available - June 4, 2006
2.8.4 fixes some minor bugs, and includes a backport of the
infrastructure for automated regression testing.
(Old downloads)
First test results available - June 4, 2006
After a week of frantic tweaking, the first automated testing results
are available. You can now see in full glory what features are broken in the development release
LilyPond 2.9.7 available - May 30, 2006
2.9.7 has improvements in the formatting for figured bass, and
includes a new framework for detecting bugs earlier, which will make
the development releases even better
LilyPond 2.9.6 available - May 24, 2006
This
release has new features in beam formatting: beams may now be put on
single stems, and obey the beatGrouping property. MusicXML
converter. (Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.5 available - May 17, 2006
This release supports object rotation, hairpins with circled tips,
hairpins that run to barlines before notes and improvements in the
MusicXML converter.
(Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.4 available - May 12, 2006
This release has support for feathered beaming, and note head styles in
the markup \note command. In addition, it has a lot of updates
of the manual and a clean up of the spring spacer.
(Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.8.2 available - May 12, 2006
This release has fixes for minor bugs and compilation issues.
(Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.3 is out! - May 7, 2006
This new release has lots of updates of the manual, courtesy Graham
and the contributors of the mailing. It handles formatting for ties in
arpegiated chords better (feature sponsored by
Steve Doonan), it has al niente hairpins, courtesy of Erlend Aasland,
and some cleanups of the PostScript output, courtesy David Feuer. (Changes, Old downloads)
FISL7.0 slides available - April 22, 2006
The slides for Han-Wen’s talk at
FISL 7 are now online.
(Publications)
LilyPond 2.8.1 is out! - April 3, 2006
Important bugfixes include CJK font handling and a Darwin/x86 port.
(Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.9.1 is out! - April 3, 2006
It’s mostly a bugfix release, and it’s almoste the same as 2.8.1. This
release mainly fixes problems with CJK font loading.
(Changes, Old downloads)
LilyPond on MacOS X/Intel - March 31, 2006
LilyPond now also runs on Intel based macs, offering a 400%
speedup over the emulated PowerPC binaries. (Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.39 is out - March 17, 2006
This release has even more bug fixes. Please test before 2.8 is
released. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.38 is out - March 12, 2006
This is likely to be the last release candidate before we release 2.8,
so report any bugs that you might find. New attractions include:
lilypond postscript files now work with GSView, cut & pasting lily
code from PDF files should now work, and spacing fixes for
multi-measure rests.
(Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.37 is out - March 4, 2006
This release has more bug fixes. Please help us by testing it!
(Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.36 is out - February 24, 2006
This is another release candidate for 2.8. It has lots of bug fixes
and polishes to the documentation. It also contains support for
creating ties that are only on their right side connected to note
heads, which is handy for repeats (feature sponsored by Steve Doonan).
The documentation suite can now be downloaded as a separate tarball
from lilypond.org. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.35 is out - February 19, 2006
This release has lots of bugs fixes. The plan is to release 2.8 at the
end of this month, so bug reports are very welcome. By
definition a bug is release critical if it wasn’t present in version
2.6. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.34 is out - February 16, 2006
This release has a bunch of bugfixes, and new features. Newly created
contexts may also be named with \new Voice =
"alto". Thicknesses of tie and slurs may be tuned separately for
the endings and the middle
part. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.33 is out - February 10, 2006
Items directly connected with a music input element may be
parenthesized, for example,
{
c4 -\parenthesize -.
<d \parenthesize fis a>
}
This feature was sponsored by Ramana Kumar. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.32 is out - February 7, 2006
This release contains some syntax changes: words inside the \paper and
\layout block are henceforth written with dashes, for instance:
{
\layout {
ragged-right = ##t
}
}
Furthermore, in this release, we have dropped some legacy code from
our library. Now, lily uses standard C++ strings and the STL
vector. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.31 is out - February 2, 2006
This release fixes a load of bugs, and has some internal
cleanups. Exported C++ members are now named
ly:class-name::function-name in Scheme instead of
Class_name::function_name. We are now using C++ vectors and strings
instead of our own. The Linux/FreeBSD builds now include wrappers for
Python scripts too, so you can run convert-ly and midi2ly.
(Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.30 is out - January 30, 2006
This release has a few bug fixes, like the solfa note head shape and
collisions, the \epsfile command, and in getting No. ligature in
normal words. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.29 is out - January 27, 2006
This release has the following new features. Alignments of staves may
be tuned per system (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca), individual
systems may be positioned manually (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca
and Nicolas Sceaux), a linebreaking configuration can now be saved as
a ‘.ly’ file automatically. This allows vertical alignments to be
stretched to fit pages in a second formatting run (feature sponsored
by Trevor Baca and Nicolas
Sceaux). (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.28 is out - January 22, 2006
This release contains numerous small fixes that were already in our
GUB binaries. In addition, it has further polish for formatting of
tied chords. Theses improvements were sponsored by Steve
Doonan. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.27, release 4 - January 13, 2006
The fourth release of our Grand Unified Binary for 2.7.27 is
available. This release uses Pango 1.11.1, which has support for
ligatures and kerning. Enjoy! (Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.27, release 3 - January 12, 2006
The third release of our Grand Unified Binaries is available. This
release fixes external font-support, the decompression flag for
Linux. Also, we have support for FreeBSD as well! Jump
to the Old downloads get them!
LilyPond 2.7.27 binaries are out - January 7, 2006
Starting with 2.7.26, the development team has been working on the
installers. We’re proud to announce another version of these: they are
now available for
Linux/x86,
MacOS X and
Windows.
LilyPond 2.7.27 is out - January 7, 2006
This release allows you to switch staff lines on and off individually
(feature sponsored by Andrea
Valle). (Changes,
Old downloads)
Linux Journal article - January 2006
Linux Journal publishes an article on
Make Stunning Schenker Graphs with GNU LilyPond. It is a
in-depth but hands-on feature article with crisp LilyPond
graphics.
Author Kris Shaffer remarks
“GNU LilyPond generates beautiful graphics that make commercial
alternatives seem second-rate.”
This article is now available on-line.
New binaries for LilyPond 2.7.26 - January 4, 2006
The Development team has been working around the clock to improve
to fix the first wave bugs reported by you. The new results for MacOS
and Windows are up on the Old downloads
page. Let us know how you fare!
LilyPond 2.7.26 is out - December 31, 2005
This release has an improvement in the MusicXML importer (feature
sponsored by Mark vd Borre’s Music Academy): now, staves and voices
are also setup, so you can readily run LilyPond on the .ly output.
The important occasion for this release is our new build
environment: we have completely revamped it, which means that binaries
for all platforms (including MacOS, Windows, Linux/x86, but probably
FreeBSD too) will be more quickly available for download.
A happy 2006 from the LilyPond Development Team!
(Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.25 is out - December 24, 2005
This release has various bugfixes. Also, stems on the center line now
have their directions interpolated to minimize the number of direction
changes (feature sponsored by Basil Crow and Mike
Rolish). (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.24 is out - December 20, 2005
This release fixes a couple of bugs, but more importantly, slurs now
avoid TupletNumbers, and tuplet numbers may enter the staff (feature
sponsored by Trent Johnston), tuplet brackets and numbers are
implemented as separate grobs, TupletBracket and TupletNumber (rewrite
sponsored by Trent Johnston), string arguments for music functions may
be specified without # marks. This allows syntactical constructs (like
\clef and \bar) to be expressed in generic music
functions. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.23 is out - December 19, 2005
This release has the following new features:
-
Ties in chords are also formatted using score based
formatting. This reduces the number of collisions for ties in chords
(feature sponsored by Steve Doonan).
-
With the \tweak music function, layout objects that are directly
connected to input may be tuned easily (feature sponsored by Sean Reed
and Bertalan Fodor).
-
Generic music functions may now also be used on
articulations and chord elements (feature sponsored by Sean Reed and
Bertalan Fodor).
-
Better support for MusicXML, more options for spacing Lyrics;
it is now possible to separately specify minimum distances for normal
and hyphenated syllables (features sponsored by Mark van den Borre and
Bertalan Fodor.
(Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.22 is out - December 9, 2005
This release has better support for MusicXML: it also supports ties,
beams and editorial accidentals. It also has more options for spacing
Lyrics; it is now possible to separately specify minimum distances for
normal and hyphenated syllables. These features were sponsored by Mark
van den Borre and Bertalan
Fodor. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.21 is out - December 5, 2005
Saint Nicholas brings you ... a MusicXML convertor for LilyPond!
The convertor is basic, but working. Check out the LilyPond Software Design pages for MusicXML features that can be
sponsored.
LilyPond 2.7.20 is out - December 2, 2005
This release contains the following improvements: Texts set in a
TrueType font are now kerned. Using the TeX no longer requires linking
or dynamically opening the kpathsea library, making the backend more
easily usable on various systems (feature sponsored by Christian Ebert
of Black Trash
Productions). (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.6.5 is out - December 1, 2005
This release updates the bugreporting address and reorganizes the
documentation tree. (Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.19 is out - November 26, 2005
This version contains a few bugfixes, and now allows the type of
brackets in system start bracket hierarchies to be specified. Also,
the horizontal alignment of rehearsal marks may be changed: marks can
be put on key signatures, clefs, time signatures,
etc. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.18 is out - November 21, 2005
This version features nestable system start delimiters, like bracket,
brace. It also adds "square" line bracket (feature sponsored by Trevor
Baca). It also has refactored routines for tie formatting. This will
make it easier to get better tie formatting for chords (feature
sponsored by Steve Doonan). It also has a few bug
fixes. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.17 is out - November 17, 2005
This version has refactored routines for tie formatting. This will
make it easier to get better tie formatting for chords (feature
sponsored by Steve Doonan). It also has a few bug
fixes. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.16 is out - November 11, 2005
This release fixes a large number of bugs. Please upgrade before
reporting bugs in the 2.7 series. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.15 is out - November 3, 2005
This release has another massive cleanup of the backend. Each grob
property may also be a "grob closure". This means that it is possible
to combine functions. Calculation of extent and offset of grob is now
controlled via the ‘X-extent’, ‘Y-extent’, ‘X-offset’ and ‘Y-offset’
properties. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.14 is out - October 23, 2005
This release has more cleanup in the layout-engine. Now,
properties that have Procedure values are thought to be procedures
that compute said property, i.e.
\override Beam #'direction = #(lambda (grob)
(if (> (random 10) 5) UP DOWN))
will set a random direction for beams. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.13 is out - October 18, 2005
This release features slashed numerals, plus signs and interruptible
extender lines for figured bass. Merging of Figured bass lines has
been made switchable with the figuredBassCenterContinuations
property. For each grob, a subproperty in ‘callbacks’ property defines
the procedure which computes it. This is major internal cleanup, which
also provides advanced tweakability for power
users. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.6.4 is out - October 11, 2005
This release fixes a few minor problems with the stable
series. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.12 is out - October 07, 2005
It features more annotations for the page layout engine and some more
sponsored features. Beamlets may stick out of the side of beams
(feature sponsored by Trevor Baca); new support for figured bass with
support for continuation lines and tuning of figures, brackets, and
alignments (feature sponsored by Trent Johnston); vertical alignments
of staves can now be tuned easily for individual systems (feature
sponsored by Nicolas
Sceaux). (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.11 is out - October 02, 2005
Vertical spacing for page layout can now be tuned for each system
individually (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca and Nicolas
Sceaux). The slope of a stem-tremolo may be set manually (feature
sponsored by Sven Axelsson). There are a number of cleanups in the
handling and representation of systems, among other features and bug
fixes. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.10 is out - September 13, 2005
This version adds proper support for "laissez vibrer ties", just enter
\laissezVibrer after a chord. This feature was sponsored by Henrik
Frisk. It also has a couple of minor
bugfixes. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.8 is out - August 29, 2005
This release has support for right-to-left text formatting in markup
commands (sponsored by Aaron Mehl). In addition, it fixes a great
number of bugs, among others, support for writing MIDI files. (Changes,
Old downloads)
Article in ‘De Standaard’ - August 20, 2005
The Belgian newspaper De Standaard investigates what drives
Free Software authors in an article titled Delen van KENNIS
zonder WINSTBEJAG (Non-profit sharing of
knowledge) using LilyPond as an example. This marks
LilyPond’s first appearance in mainstream printed press.
LilyPond 2.7.7 is out - August 22, 2005
This release has a rewriting of tie formatting which was sponsored by
Bertalan Fodor, Jay Hamilton, Kieren MacMillan, Steve Doonan, Trevor
Baca, and Vicente Solsona Dellá. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.6 is out - August 19, 2005
This release adds support for numbered percent repeats, a feature
sponsored by Yoshinobu Ishizaki. It also has bugfixes for clashes
between slurs and symbols, like fingers dynamic
signs. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.5 is out - August 16, 2005
Lily 2.7.5 has a large number of bugfixes, among others, in slur
formatting, spacing, rest collisions and tuplet bracket
formatting. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.4 is out - August 7, 2005
LilyPond 2.7.4 has support for proportional notation, where the space
for a note is proportional to the time it
takes. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.6.3 is out - August 4, 2005
This release fixes a memory corruption bug that was triggered by
\override’ing Beam settings. (Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.6.2 is out - August 2, 2005
This release has a few bugfixes, among them: the autopackage will run
in more platforms, LilyPond will be much quicker for large
lilypond-book documents, and the up and down Fa note heads for shaped
heads have been
swapped. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.3 is out - July 25, 2005
LilyPond 2.7.3 has improvements in performance which should result in
faster operations (15 to 20 percent). It also contains the new
"\displayLilyMusic" function.
(Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7.2 is out - July 21, 2005
LilyPond 2.7.2 has support for suggested accidentals for musica
ficta notation, easy entry for lyric melismata and improvements for
quicker entry of scores. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.6 released - June 27, 2005
Version 2.6 is the latest stable release of LilyPond.
It now
installs in a snap on Windows, MacOS X, and any version of Linux (x86).
Get up and running in minutes! Pango text formatting lets you
print Unicode lyrics in your favorite script and font. Create
SVG files, and edit them in Inkscape.
(Announcement, Old downloads, Changes)
LilyPond 2.7.1 is out - July 20, 2005
LilyPond 2.7.1 has no user-visible changes. However, due to
restructuring “under the hood”, this version will be 10 to
20 % faster. (Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.6.1 is out - July 11, 2005
This version fixes a few minor bugs found in
2.6.0, and also works on DOS-based Windows versions. (Changes,
Old downloads)
LilyPond 2.7 is out - July 9, 2005
LilyPond 2.7.0 is out. It has support for paragraph text and
pitched trill notation. (Changes,
Old downloads)
2.5.31 released - June 22, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.32 is now available for download (binaries for Fedora +
MacOS only). It has a few very minor bugfixes, and a rewrite of the
TTF embedding code, which should be a lot more robust now.
(Old downloads)
Traduction du site de LilyPond - 15 juin 2005
L’équipe des traducteurs vous présente
le site de LilyPond en français. Nous travaillons sur la traduction des
pages encore non traduites. Bon surf !
2.5.31 for Windows and MacOS - June 15, 2005
2.5.31 is now available for both Windows and MacOS X. The Windows
version should now work with embedding TTF fonts, and the MacOS X has
better help functionality.
(Old downloads)
2.5.31 released - June 15, 2005
This release has a few bugfixes. In the MacOS X version, ClickEdit has
been renamed to LilyPond, and you can now upgrade your files and
compile them directly from
LilyPond. (Old downloads)
2.5.30 released - June 10, 2005
This is (hopefully) the last Release Candidate before 2.6. Give it a
good shake to find those last bugs! (Old downloads)
2.5.29 released - June 7, 2005
In this release the documentation also has pictures. In addition, the
Mac version can also read native mac fonts (.dfonts and fonts in
resource forks). (Old downloads)
2.5.27 released - May 31, 2005
It has a big bunch of minor bugfixes. This is another release
candidate for version 2.6, which should be released within the next 2
weeks. Please send a bug report if you find a critical problem with this
release. (Old downloads)
Windows and MacOS installers available - May 26, 2005
There are now a native, standalone installers for Windows and
MacOS. They also support PDF point & click. (Old downloads)
2.5.26 released - May 26, 2005
This release has a couple of small bugfixes.
2.5.25 released - May 20, 2005
This release has many small bugfixes and updates to the
documentation. (Old downloads)
2.5.24 released - May 12, 2005
2.5.24 fixes a bunch of bugs; in particular, chord symbols (such as
slashed o) should now work on all platforms. This release has a new
feature: it is now possible to make staves appear in a different order
from the order that they were defined. (Old downloads)
2.5.23 released - May 6, 2005
This release has a couple of small bugfixes, and a new feature. It is
now possible to start and stop the StaffSymbol, during a piece of
music, by doing \stopStaff \startStaff. This can be used to
produce Ossia staves. (Changes,
Old downloads)
2.5.22 released - May 3, 2005
2.5.22 is a bugfix
release. The most visible improvement is in the PDF : this release
will produce smaller PDF files, with symbols that look better on
screen.
(Old downloads)
April 25, 2005 - 2.5.21 released!
2.5.21 has more bugfixes. It also has support for "grid
lines", bar like vertical line, which are aligned with the notes. The
auto-beam engraver was rewritten, so it also works with irregular time
signatures like 5/8.
(Changes,
Old downloads)
April 18, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.20 has lots of bugfixes, in particular, MIDI files of
multi-movement pieces don’t overwrite each other. Version 2.5.20 also
supports putting arrows on lines, such as glissandi.
More details are in the
the Changes
file, or go straight to Old downloads.
April 15, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.19 was released. The command ‘\epsfile’ allows inclusion
of EPS graphics into markup texts and the music function
‘\musicDisplay’ will display a music expression as indented
Scheme code. Take a look at
the Changes
file and Old downloads.
April 6, 2005
2.5.18 is a bugfix release. It has many small cleanups in the
web-based documentation, and many small cleanups all over the
place. Old downloads
March 31, 2005
2.5.17 is out. This release features many small bugfixes. In addition,
it has support for string number notation for guitar. This feature was
sponsored by Gunther Strube. Old downloads
March 20, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.16 is out. This release fixes a few minor but irritating
errors. A Fedora Core 3 binary is also available.
Old downloads
March 14, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.15 is out. This release has clean ups in the SVG output,
and now uses the LilyPond number font for time signatures. It is
now possible to add text before and after music. This can be used to
add verses after a music. Take a look at the Changes
file and Old downloads!
March 7, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.14 is out. It is now possible (and in fact, encouraged),
to build LilyPond either without the Kpathsea TeX library or with the
Kpathsea dynamically loaded, but only for the -btex backend. This
means that packages do not have to depend on TeX anymore. With this,
the Windows download size will go down significantly. Take a look at
the Changes
file and download Old downloads!
March 7, 2005
LilyPond 2.4.5 is out. This release backports the tieWaitForNote
feature and has support for tetex-3.0.
Old downloads
February 28, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.13 is available for Fedora Core 3. You need to install
Ghostscript 8.15rc3. Unfortunately, this version of Ghostscript
lacks the IJS dynamic library, which means that it will conflict with
the gimp-print package. You may install it with –nodeps. Use at your
own risk.
February 28, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.13 is out. This release has Point and click support for
PDF output. You can read more about it here.
Take a look at the Changes
file and download Old downloads!
February 26, 2005
The LilyPond Snippet Repository (LSR) is a searchable database of LilyPond code
snippets. You can add snippets too, so join the LSR project, and
contribute creative ideas for using LilyPond.
February 21, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.12 is out. The big news is that this release supports
TrueType fonts. This means that it is now possible to use all
fonts available via FontConfig. Also, arpeggios may be written out
using ties and individual objects may have colors! Take a look at
the Changes
file and Old downloads!
February 4, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.11 is out. In this
release, foreign character sets are now supported in lilypond-book
too, and it is possible to put system separators between systems.
Old downloads!
January 31, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.10 is out. This release
sports as new EPS backend, based on the PS backend. This backend is
used in the new and improved lilypond-book script.
Old downloads
January 26, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.9 is out. This release fixes a couple of annoying
bugs in the direct PS output for piano braces.
Old downloads
January 16, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.8 is out. This
release has many internal code cleanups. In addition,
accuracy of error reporting has been improved.
See the
change log and Old downloads!
January 11, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.7 is out. This release has a completely usable
Pango integration for the PS backend. The default font is
Century Schoolbook from the PS font suite. It also has
small updates to the tablature settings by Erlend Aasland,
assorted manual updates by Graham, and an overhaul of the
font code by Werner.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
January 02, 2005
LilyPond 2.5.6 was released. This is a "technology preview"
release, which means that it has all kinds of nifty
features, but is not actually usable for producing nicely
printed scores. For this reason, an RPM of this release was
not produced. The PS backend is now completely switched over
to Pango/FontConfig: for -f ps, LilyPond only accepts UTF8
input, all text fonts are loaded through Pango, the TeX
backend now offloads all metric computations to LaTeX, the
SVG and GNOME backends are broken, most probably.
Old downloads
and check out the
changes in the ChangeLog.
December 28, 2004
LilyPond 2.5.5 is out. It is the first one to link against
FontConfig and Pango, although it is only available in the "-f
ps" output. The default output format has been changed back TeX
while we stabilize the Pango/FontConfig integration.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
December 20, 2004
LilyPond 2.5.4 is out. This release has some major
brainsurgery in the font handling. As of now, LilyPond loads
the music fonts in OpenType font format using FreeType.
This has made a lot of things simpler, including font
handling for the GNOME backend and SVG backend.
Old downloads
and check out the
changes in the ChangeLog.
December 3, 2004
LilyPond 2.5.3 was released. A new script, ‘\espressivo’ has
been added, for a combination of crescendo and decrescendo
on a single note. In markups, expressions stacked with
‘\column’, ‘\center-align’, etc, are not grouped with ‘< ...
>’ anymore, but with ‘{ ... }’. LilyPond will now avoid line
breaks that cause long texts to stick outside of the page
staff. Grace notes following a main note, used to be entered
by letting the grace notes follow a skip in a parallel
expression.
Old downloads
and
check out the changes in the ChangeLog.
November 26, 2004
LilyPond 2.5.2 was released. It has several goodies,
including solfa-notation (shaped noteheads), and an easier
mechanism for customizing title, footer and header
layout. Don’t forget to rebuild the fonts, as they have been
changed to accomodate the solfa-notation.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
November 20, 2004
LilyPond 2.5.1 is out. This is an experimental release,
containing some proof-of-concept code for our graphical
layout editor. You can add and remove things from the file,
and the tweaks will still work, as long as the tweaked notes
remain in the place (i.e., start at the same time-wise and be
part of the same context). Further attractions are: the
gnome backend now also draws beams and slurs, updates to the
SVG backend, support for the lmodern font set for TeX,
various bugfixes.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
November 12, 2004
The LilyPond development is OPEN once again! The first
release of the 2.5 series has the following new Features:
Positioning of slurs can now be adjusted manually, Grace
notes are correctly quoted and formatted when using cue
notes, Cue notes can now be created with
\cueDuring #VOICE-NAME #DIRECTION { MUSIC }
Stemlets (short stems over beamed rests) have been added.
In addition, Jan hacked together some highly experimental
code where you can use the mouse to drag and drop objects in
the -f gnome backend. These tweaks can be saved and are
applied to the PS and TeX output as well.
Old downloads
and check out
the changes in the ChangeLog.
November 11, 2004
LilyPond 2.4.2 is out. This release fixes a number of security
problems with –safe, and adds a lot of polishing fixes.
Old downloads
November 4, 2004
LilyPond 2.4.1 is out. This release includes a number of small
fixes that were made to 2.4.0 last week.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
October 31, 2004
LilyPond 2.4.0 was just released!
This new stable version has support for page-layout,
completely rewritten slur formatting and many other
improvements. Read about them in the Changes
file.
Old downloads
October 29, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.26 is out. This is another 2.4 release
candidate. This release fixes a number of minor bugs, and
some problems with the conversion scripts.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
October 29, 2004
2.3.25 is the final release candidate for LilyPond 2.4.
Werner has been overhauling the TeX macros and
lilypond-book. In addition, this release contains an
important fix for raggedbottom page-layout.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
October 27, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.24 is a further polished 2.4 release candidate.
This release has more improvements by Werner for the TeX
backend, and a bunch of other small fixes.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
October 24, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.23 has bugfixes in the documentation, lilypond-book and
–preview output. This release can be considered as a release
candidate for LilyPond 2.4.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
October 10, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.22 fixes a bunch more bugs, to make 2.4 a really
stable release. In addition, it renames the \paper{} block to
\layout{}. The \bookpaper{} block is now called
\paper{}.
Old downloads
and
check out the changes in the ChangeLog.
October 09, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.21 is out. It is a serious release candidate for
the next stable release LilyPond. This version has a cleanup
and some small formatting improvements of the slur
code.
Old downloads
and check
out the changes in the ChangeLog.
October 02, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.20 was released. It fixes the biggest problems
with encoding and the TeX backend. As a result, latin1
characters (like the german SS) show up correctly in the
output once again. Also it has the usual bugfixes and updates
in the documentation.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
September 29, 2004
The LilyPond development team will be present at the Free Software Bazaar of the NLUUG SANE 2004 conference today. If you
are in the neighborhood, drop by for live contact with the Team or
just a friendly chat. Registration is not required to attend.
September 26, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.19 is out. It’s mainly a bugfix release.
Old downloads
and check out the changes
in the ChangeLog.
September 20, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.18 was released. It has further improvements in
the slur formatting, and a small syntax change: the mode
changing commands (‘\chords’, ‘\lyrics’, etc.) have been
renamed to ‘\chordmode’, ‘\lyricmode’, etc. The command
‘\chords’ is an abbreviation for \new ChordNames \chordmode
... ‘\drums’, ‘\lyrics’, ‘\chords’, ‘\figures’ function
similarly.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
September 11, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.16 was released. It fixes a couple of annoying
bugs, and has an important addition in the slur-formatter. Slurs that
pass note heads much closer than the average distance get an extra
penalty. This fixes a lot of difficult slurring cases. See
input/regression/new-slur for some examples.
Please consider this release as a 3.0 pre-release so try to find as
many bugs as possible. A report including a small .ly example
can be filed at bug-lilypond@gnu.org
In this case, a bug is defined as something that the current 2.3 does
worse than the latest 2.2 release. We want to be sure that no output
will get uglier by upgrading to 3.0, so that once 3.0 is out, nothing
will hold users back in switching.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
September 10, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.15 was released. It fixes for some gaffes with
the new vertical spacing engine, has lots of documentation
updates, and has support for landscape output in the direct
postscript output. Also, the types of events quoted with
‘\quote’ can now be tuned with ‘quotedEventTypes’. By default,
only notes and rests end up in quotes.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
September 6, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.14 was released and has exciting features!
LilyPond will try to keep staves at the same distances across a
page, but it will stretch distances to prevent collisions; key
signature cancellations are now printed before the bar line;
different voices that all use "\quote" can now refer to each
other.
Old downloads
and check out
the changes in the ChangeLog.
August 29, 2004
LilyPond now has a Documentation
Editor, Graham Percival. From now on, he will oversee that
useful information flows from the mailiing list into the
manual. Also, if there are unclear sections in the manual,
let him know via one of the mailing lists.
As a start of his career, he worked to transform the
"Templates" section of the website into a readable and comprehensive
chapter of the user manual.
A lot of cheers for Graham!
August 29, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.13 was released. The new slur code was
improved, scripts can be made to avoid slurs, by setting
inside-slur to #f. It is no longer necessary to instantiate
"up" and "down" staves separately when using
\autochange. Jurgen Reuter refreshed the logic around
mensural flags, so they are adjusted for staff lines once
again.
Old downloads
and
check out the changes in the ChangeLog.
August 24, 2004
LilyPond 2.2.6 fixes a few minor issues, among others, the
disappearing metronome mark.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
August 23, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.12 is out. This release has a lot of fixes and
a new feature: there is now support for putting two slurs on
chords, both above and below. This is switched on with the
‘doubleSlurs’ property.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
August 3, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.11 is out. This release basically is 2.3.10 with a few
annoying bugs fixed.
Old downloads
and check out
the changes in the ChangeLog.
August 1, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.10 is out. This release has a major clean-up of the
input/test/ directory. Many examples have been moved to the regression
test or manual, and the superfluous or outdated ones have been
removed. The directory has gone from 146 examples to 72 examples. That
means that we’re halfway cleaning it out. Incidentally, the manual
has gone from 200 to 220 pages. New features:
-
Running trills now have their own spanner and event. They are
started and stopped with \startTrillSpan and \stopTrillSpan
-
There is a new markup command ‘\postscript’ that takes a string
that is dumped as verbatim PostScript
Old downloads
and check out
the changes in the ChangeLog.
July 30, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.9 is out. The important change is that lilypond
now once-again directly runs the binary. The old wrapper script has
been renamed to lilypond-latex.py, and should only be used for legacy
projects. The recommended route is either using lilypond directly
(with \book, you can have multiple movements within one document), or
to run lilypond-book with a LaTeX wrapper file.
This release also fixes a bunch of small errors. I now consider
LilyPond feature complete for a 3.0 release. Next on the TODO list is
updating the manual, and after that’s done we can release 3.0. The
projected date for this to happen is in about a month.
Old downloads
and check out
the changes in the ChangeLog.
July 23, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.8 fixes a few minor bugs in the new slur code,
and has rewritten support for ledger lines. Now, in tight
situations, ledger lines will be shortened so they stay
separate. This also required a cleanup of the Ambitus
implementation.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.
July 19, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.7 was released and has new exciting features!
The slur formatting has been rewritten. The new slur code
works similar to the Beam formatter: scores are assigned for
all esthetic components of a slur. A large number of
combinations for begin and end points is then tried out.
Slurs will now also take into account collisions with staff
lines, scripts (like staccato and accent) and accidentals. In
the LilyPond emacs mode, the ‘|’ will now display the current
beat within the measure.
Old downloads
and check out the changes in
the ChangeLog.
July 15, 2004
LilyPond 2.2.5 was released. It has a few bug fixes from
2.3.x.
Old downloads
and check
out the changes in the ChangeLog.
July 11, 2004
An introductory article on LilyPond appeared on Linux Journal.
July 5, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.6 was released. This release has more updates
for the Fret diagram code (thanks, Carl!), fixes a bunch of
bugs, including a serious one that trashed a lot of beam
formatting, and was also present in the 2.2 series.
Old downloads
and check out the changes
in the ChangeLog.
July 5, 2004
LilyPond 2.2.4 was released. It is mainly a bug fix
release.
Old downloads
and
check out the changes in the ChangeLog.
June 25, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.5 has numerous small bugfixes and cleanups, and
features more work in the experimental GNOME output
module. Adventurous hackers can check the instructions at
scm/output-gnome.scm and try to run
buildscripts/guile-gnome.sh to see what the fuss is all about.
Carl Sorensen also provided us with more patches to the
fret-diagram output. Check out the ChangeLog
and
Old downloads.
June 20, 2004
LilyPond 2.2.3 has a turkish translation and fixes a few minor
bugs that were reported over the past month. Check out the ChangeLog for a full description and
Old downloads.
June 13, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.4 further improves the output backends. As a
result, manual page-breaks, multiple output formats and putting
\score into markups now works. Check out the ChangeLog
and
Old downloads.
May 31, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.3 has many internal changes relating to the output
backend (PostScript) and page-layout. In addition, it contains a few
bugfixes for recently reported problems. Check out the ChangeLog
and
Old downloads.
May 31, 2004
LilyPond 2.2.2 is out. It has a number of small bugfixes, so upgrade
if any of these errors concern you. Check out the ChangeLog
or head straight to the
Old downloads.
May 26, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.2 is out. This release has a lot of internal
changes relating to page layout, but also sports experimental
fret-diagram code. Check out the Changes or head straight to the
Old downloads.
May 9, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.1 is out. This release has many new and cool
features. Check out the Changes or head straight to the
Old downloads.
May 4, 2004
Help LilyPond get better, and join in on LilyPond
development! This
call for help was posted on the mailing list a month ago, and we
are still looking for a Release Meister, Code Janitor,
Newsletter editor and a Writer for implementation
Documentation. Of course, any other help is also welcome!
May 3, 2004
LilyPond 2.2.1 has been released. It fixes a handful of bugs.
Old downloads.
April 17, 2004
LilyPond 2.2.0 is now available
on Windows, and should find its way to the Cygwin mirrors
soon.
April 12, 2004
LilyPond 2.3.0 is the first release
in the 2.3 cycle. The focus for 2.3 is page layout, so
instrumentalists can force parts to have page breaks at sane turning
points. This release is experimental; expect things to break!
More info in the Changes.
Old downloads.
April 8, 2004
A French article on the new LilyPond
release appeared on linuxfr.org.
April 8, 2004
Binaries for LilyPond 2.2.0 are available for
MacOS X, Slackware, Mandrake and Debian Woody.
Old downloads
April 1, 2004
LilyPond 2.2.0 is out! This new stable version has
completely revamped support for for orchestral score
formatting, cue notes, font size management, lyric formatting,
drum notation/playback and document integration. Read about it in
the announcement or skip to the
Old downloads.
March 31, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.37 has build fixes for Cygwin and SUSE,
bugfixes for part-combining and chord tremolos and even more
documentation polish. This should be the final release
candidate; expect only regression bugs to be fixed before
2.2.
Old downloads.
March 30, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.36 has many fixes in
the user manual.
Old downloads.
March 28, 2004
LilyPond 2.1..35 fixes a slew of
bugs, and has the raggedlast option, which causes
paragraph like line breaking for scores. More info in the
Changes.
Old downloads
March 22, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.34 fixes minor bugs, and has more rewriting.
Old downloads.
March 21, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.33 fixes a serious bug, and a few other
irritations.
Old downloads
March 20, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.32 has more rewriting
in the user manual. There is also an experimental
implementation of optimal page breaking (Postscript backend
only).
Old downloads.
March 15, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.31 is out. It has fixes the alignment of bass
figures and spurious dynamic warnings in MIDI. New
attractions include rewritten font-selection routines. See
the
Changes and
Old downloads.
March 11, 2004
linuxmusician.com is
running an
interview
with Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen, the main
authors of LilyPond.
March 11, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.30 has editorial fixes for the manual, and
experimental support for page layout in the PostScript
backend. See the
Changes and
Old downloads.
March 9, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.29 fixes a couple of MIDI bugs, and has
experimental support for producing titles with
markup.
February 29, 2004
In LilyPond 2.1.28 Scheme property functions may be used
argument to set!. In addition, parts of the manual
have been proofread and corrected in this release. See the
Changes and
Old downloads.
February 24, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.27 takes into account instrument transpositions
when quoting other voices. This release also fixes a number
of lyrics related bugs. See the
Changes and
Old downloads.
February 23, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.26 has a new, experimental feature for quoting
other voices in instrumental parts. This can be used to
produce cue notes. More information in the
Changes.
Old downloads
February 18, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.25 fixes many bugs, and changes the conventions
for altering accidental rules.
Old downloads
February 16, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.24 has a big
internal rewrite. One of its practical consequences is that
\with now also works with Score
contexts. Further 2.1.23, which was not announced here,
fixes a few bugs caused by the change of \property
syntax and has updates in the Program Reference document.
More information in the
Changes.
Old downloads
February 13, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.22 has a
simplification of the \property syntax: it is
shorter and more consistent now. More information in the
Changes.
Old downloads
February 12, 2004
In LilyPond 2.1.21, output
tweaks can be done at multiple levels of the context
hierarchy. In addition, it has a bunch of bugfixes,
improvements in the documentation. More information in the
Changes.
Old downloads
February 9, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.20 has MIDI
output for drums. It also sports a completely rewritten
lilypond-book script, which is cleaner, shorter, and faster.
It also has a large number of bugfixes.
More information in the
Changes.
Old downloads
February 5, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.19 has rewritten
support for drum notation. This release also makes some
long-standing cleanups: the removal of Thread (all
functionality is now moved into Voice) and Lyrics
(functionality moved to LyricsVoice) context.
More information in the
Changes.
Old downloads
February 4, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.18 is out. This
release has the new part-combiner installed by default, and a
similar implementation of autochange. More information
in the
Changes.
Old downloads
February 2, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.17 is out. It adds texts
(solo, a due) for the part combiner. It also reinstates the
‘--safe’ option which prevents havoc by Scheme exploits. More
information in the
Changes.
January 28, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.16 is out; its main feature
is that it fixes the autobeams gaffe of 2.1.15. The part-combiner
has been tested successfully on larger pieces. In the near future,
expect more part-combining eye-candy.
More information in
the
Changes.
Old downloads
January 26, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.15 further improves the part-combiner, and fixes many
bugs, among others in pedal brackets and finger positioning.
More information in
the
Changes. Old downloads
January 21, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.14
has the first release of the new part combiner. If you have scores that
use part-combining, please consider giving it a test-run. In addition
many bugs relating to mixed staff sizes have been fixed.
More information in
the
Changes. Old downloads
January 20, 2004
The lilypond.org domain has been moved to a new server. This
will result in better connectivity and more bandwidth. Due
to security concerns, the new server does not offer FTP
access, but only HTTP downloads.
January 20, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.13 fixes a small but
nasty bug in side-positioning placement, and some bugs in
tuplet, tie and accidental formatting. This release contains
rudimentary work on a new part-combiner.
Old downloads
January 19, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.12 fixes many bugs
and improves formatting of ottava brackets. More information in
the
Changes. Old downloads
January 18, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.11 is now also
available for Windows! For downloading, go
here.
January 17, 2004
In 2.1.11, the mechanism for
setting staff size and page is much simplified. In addition
there are improvements in the notehead shape, and there is
balloon help!
More information in the
Changes. Old downloads
January 16, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.10 has a load of
bugfixes and a shorter syntax for octave checks. More
information in the
Changes. Old downloads
January 13, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.9 has a new mechanism
for adding lyrics to melodies. It is now possible to have
different melismatic variations for each stanza. More
information in the
Changes. Old downloads
January 9, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.8 has an important new
feature: it is now possible to use \property to tune
the appearance of spanning objects like StaffSymbol and
SystemStartBrace. In addition, contexts may be
modified with \remove and \consists for
individual music expressions.
More information in the
Changes. Old downloads
January 7, 2004
An update to the stable branch,
version 2.0.2, was released today. It contains a couple of
minor bugfixes. Old downloads
January 6, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.7 continues to
improve the layout of the Schubert test piece; this release
focuses on dot placement and multi measure rests centering.
More information in the
Changes and download here.
January 4, 2004
LilyPond 2.1.6 continues to improve the layout of lyrics. More
information in the
release notes and download here.
January 2, 2004
In LilyPond 2.1.5, the lyric alignment is completely revamped,
and now matches my Edition Peters version of the Schubert song
Sängers Morgen. More information in the Changes and
download here.
December 30, 2003
LilyPond 2.1.4 is released. Font shapes and line thickness
are now truly different for different staff sizes, thus lending
an engraved look to scores printed in smaller type too. See the
Changes and download here.
December 23, 2003
LilyPond 2.1.3 released.
Interpreting and formatting is now done while parsing the
file. This allows for Scheme manipulation of music, and could
be used to implement experimental MusicXML output (volunteers
to implement this are welcome!) See the
Changes and download here.
December 17, 2003
LilyPond 2.1.2 released. This
release has a new mechanism for setting font sizes, which
combines different font design sizes and continuous font
scaling. See the
Changes and download here.
December 16, 2003
LilyPond 2.1.1 released. This
release wraps together all the small fixes made during
Han-Wen’s absence. See the
Changes and download here.
October 11, 2003
LilyPond 2.1.0 released. See the
Changes and
download here.
October 11, 2003
LilyPond 2.0.1 binaries for Mandrake 9.1
available from
here
thanks to Heikki Junes.
October 9, 2003
LilyPond 2.0.1 binaries for Slackware 9
available from here,
thanks to Ricardo Hoffman.
October 5, 2003
LilyPond 2.0.1 binaries are available for Macos X, many thanks to
Matthias Neeracher.
Old downloads
October 4, 2003
LilyPond 2.0.1 binaries are available for Windows (Cygwin
version 1.5).
Old downloads. Thanks to Bertalan
Fodor, our new Cygwin maintainer!
September 29, 2003
LilyPond 2.0.1 is released. It
contains minor bugfixes.
See the Changes
or download here directly.
September 27, 2003
PlanetCCRMA has been updated to include LilyPond 2.0. Go
here to download. Thanks to Fernando Pablo
Lopez-Lezcano!
September 24, 2003
LilyPond 2.0.0 is released. The
focus of this release is cleanups of the syntax: entering music is
now much easier and more efficient. Read the announcement
here, or go to the
download page directly.
September 24, 2003
LilyPond 1.9.10 is released. This is
the final LilyPond 2.0 release candidate. Check
the Changes and
download here.
September 23, 2003
LilyPond 1.9.9 is released. This is
the second LilyPond 2.0 prerelease. Check
the Changes and
download here.
September 19, 2003
LilyPond 1.9.8 is released. This is
the first LilyPond 2.0 prerelease. Check
the Changes and
download here.
September 17, 2003
LilyPond 1.9.7 is released. LilyPond
now has support for quarter tone accidentals!
Old downloads
September 16, 2003
LilyPond 1.9.6 is released.
It has a lot of minor fixes and updates.
Old downloads
September 10, 2003
LilyPond 1.9.5 is released.
With this release, the 1.9 branch is feature
complete. After some stabilization and documentation work, 2.0
will be available in a few weeks.
Old downloads
September 9, 2003
LilyPond 1.8.2 is released. This
release fixes a couple of minor bugs.
Old downloads
September 7, 2003
LilyPond 1.8 binaries are available
for Windows (Cygwin version 1.5).
Old downloads
August 31, 2003
LilyPond 1.9.4 is released.
This is an experimental release: read the
announcement
before trying.
August 31, 2003
LilyPond 1.8 binaries for slackware
available. Get them here.
August 31, 2003
LilyPond 1.9.3 is released. This
release supports tagging for music version control, and has better
fingering placement flexibility. Read the
Changes and get it here.
August 28, 2003
LilyPond 1.9.2 is released. Read the
Changes and get it
here.
August 26, 2003
LilyPond 1.9.1 is released. Read the
Changes and get it
here.
August 25, 2003
The LilyPond 1.9 development release is available. Read the
Changes and get it
here.
August 25, 2003
Mandrake 9.1 RPMS available, get them
here.
August 21, 2003
LilyPond 1.8.1 was released. Get it here, or
read the Changes.
August 18, 2003
PlanetCCRMA (eg. RedHat 8 and 9)
has been updated to 1.8.
Download here.
August 7, 2003
LilyPond 1.8 is released. Read
Changes and get it here.
August 7, 2003
New website went live!
August 6, 2003
Announced new website.
August 1, 2003
LilyPond 1.7.30 released.
July 30, 2003
Website: present treatise
about music engraving, music printing software, and LilyPond’s
unique faculties.
July 29, 2003
1.7.29 - release candidate 4 has been released. Packages for
Red Hat, Debian, Cygwin are available.
Table of Contents
Validation
MacPorts, a package manager
for macOS, has a LilyPond port.
Homebrew, another package manager
for macOS, has a LilyPond formula.