LilyPond: notació musical per a tots

LilyPond

... notació musical per a tots

El LilyPond és un programa de gravat musical (tipografia musical o edició de partitures), consagrat a la producció de partitures de la qualitat més alta possible. Introdueix l’estètica de la música gravada de la forma tradicional a les partitures impreses mitjançant l’ordinador. LilyPond és programari lliure i forma part del Projecte GNU.

Podeu llegir més a la nostra Introducció.

La bellesa de les partitures

El LilyPond és una eina poderosa i flexible per a l’edició de tota classe de partitures, ja siguin clàssiques (com l’exemple que de J.S. Bach que apareix a dalt) o de notació complexa, música antiga, música moderna, tabulatures, música vocal, fulls guia d’acords (lead sheets), materials didàctics, grans projectes orquestrals, sortida personalitzada o fins i tot gràfics de Schenker.

Admireu la nostra galeria de Exemples i inspireu-vos”

Notícies

LilyPond 2.25.21 released - October 27, 2024

LilyPond 2.24.4 released - July 21, 2024

Introducció

Les nostres metes

El LilyPond va aparèixer quan dos músics van voler anar més enllà de la inexpressiva aparença de la música impresa mitjançant ordinador. Els músics prefereixen llegir partitures boniques, així que perquè no haurien de poder els programadors crear un programari per produir partitures elegants?

El resultado es un programa que crea belles partitures seguint la millor tradició del gravat clàssic de música. S’ocupa internament dels detalls de la disposició de la música sobre el paper, permetent als compositors, transcriptors i editors centrar-se a la pròpia música en lloc d’estar contínuament intentant millorar l’aspecte de la sortida predeterminada del seu programa informàtic. Als intèrprets els arriben unes particel·les que els permet concentrar-se a tocar la música en comptes de sols llegir-la.

Què fa el Lilypond

Possibilitats: ¿Què pot fer el LilyPond?
Exemples: Vull veure alguna música!
Llibertat: El LilyPond és programari lliure.
Rerefons: La nostra estètica computacional.

El LilyPond a la pràctica

Produccions: Usos del LilyPond a la vida real.
Ressenyes: Què diu la gent?

Com funciona el LilyPond

Entrada de text: Escriviu música com si fos text?!
Entorns millorats: Altres formes de treballar amb el LilyPond.

Possibilitats

Excel·lència al gravat clàssic

El LilyPond permet als músics produir partitures elegants que siguin fàcils de llegir. La seva comunitat de desenvolupadors ha empleat milers d’hores a desenvolupar un programa de gravat musical que produeix com a resultat música impresa de forma bella. Tots els ajustos d’estil del LilyPond, el disseny dels tipus de lletra i els algoritmes s’han inspirat en la millor música gravada a mà. La sortida del Lilypond té el mateix aspecte robust, equilibrat i elegant que les partitures clàssiques millor gravades. Tot això s’explica amb detall a la nostra Monografia.

Entrada de text

Tot és explícit

El LilyPond processa l’entrada de text, que conté tota la informació sobre el contingut de la seva partitura i pot llegir-se fàcilment per un humà o per un altre programa. No hi ha cap ajust estrany ocult a darrera de complicats menús o de fitxers de document binaris.

Llegiu més sobre aquest concepte a Entrada de text.

Els ajustaments són robustos i transparents

Si heu de modificar algun aspecte de la disposició sobre la pàgina, aquesta modificació es veurà explícitament en una forma llegible per l’ésser humà, per la qual cosa sempre es pot seguir la pista del que s’ha fet. Si ‘trenqueu’ quelcom accidentalment, podeu revertir o modificar fàcilment qualsevol decisió sense dependre de la funció de Desfer.

Els fitxers de text son a prova de fallada i duradors

Els fitxers de text presenten una gran robustesa en front a la corrupció del seu contingut. A més a més, com són llegibles por part de l’ésser humà, sempre podem interpretar-los fins i tot que no tinguen accés als programes que els van crear.

Gestioneu les vostres partitures amb control de versions

Els fitxers de text són idonis per a la seva gestió mitjançant el control de versions. Coneixeu aquest tècnica i gaudiu de l’experiència de tenir mecanismes de fer i desfer infinits i selectius i la història completa del desenvolupament de les vostres partitures. El control de versions us pot també obrir nous models de feina (per exemple col·laboratius).

Usabilitat

Opcions d’aspecte efectives

Perdeu menys temps als ajustos de la sortida; el LilyPond aconsegueix el format més correcte des del principi. Determina l’espaiat per si sol i divideix les línies i les pàgines de forma que ofereix una disposició compacta i uniforme. Els conflictes entre la lletra de les cançons, les notes i els acords es resolen, i les lligadures i les barres s’inclinen automàticament.

Combinar música i text

Col·loqueu fragments de música dins de textos sense retallar i enganxeu imatges. Integreu música dins del LaTeX i de l’HTML de forma senzilla, o afegiu música a documents de l’OpenOffice o del LibreOffice mitjançant OOoLilyPond. També hi ha connectors o complements disponibles per permetre codi del LilyPond dins de diversos blogs i wikis, fent possible la col·laboració en línia.

Accessibilitat

L’entrada basada en text també fa possible l’escriptura de partitures per a usuaris amb deficiències físiques. Els usuaris amb alguna dificultat manual que no poden teclejar o usar un ratolí d’ordinador, poden usar programari de reconeixement de veu per editar els fitxers del LilyPond. Fins i tot les persones totalment cegues poden usar lectors de pantalla per escriure els fitxers del Lilypond (una tasca impossible als programes d’edició de partitures basats en gràfics).

Diversitat d’editors

Diversos desenvolupadors que són també usuaris actius del programa Lilypond han escrit eines dirigides específicament a fer més ràpid i efectiu el procés d’edició dels fitxers de codi del LilyPond; no hi ha lligadures a una sola interfície d’usuari sinó que podeu usar diferents eines per a diferents tasques. Fins i tot podeu usar un editor complet a casa i usar l’aplicació de notes del vostre telèfon mòbil per editar els fitxers mentre esteu de viatge. Per veure alguns exemples, consulteu Entorns millorats.

Disseny ampliable

Gestió senzilla dels fulls d’estil

Tots els paràmetres de configuració es poden modificar perquè es combinin amb el vostre gust tipogràfic personal. D’aquesta manera, podeu escriure fàcilment fulls d’estil capaços de modificar tot i cada un dels aspectes predeterminats de les partitures del LilyPond. Atès que aquests fulls estan a més a més escrits com a text i es poden desar com fitxers separats, podeu canviar d’un full a un altre de manera senzilla per produir partitures que tenen un aspecte completament diferent. Voleu imprimir una partitura en paper A4 i projectar-la amb un canó de vídeo, a un sistema per pàgina? El motor de recomposició del LilyPond produirà ambdues sense cap esforç a partir del mateix codi d’entrada.

Escriviu les vostres pròpies funcions

Si això no és suficient, sempre ens queda el llenguatge de scripts Scheme incorporat, un dialecte del potent llenguatge LISP. Tots els paràmetres de configuració, variables i funcions estan documentats al complet manual de referència del programa.

Processeu les partitures programàticament

Els fitxers d’entrada del LilyPond es poden editar completament o fins i tot ser generats per altres programes i guions propis. Això es pot usar, per exemple, per a la composició algorítmica. Però també podeu accedir al contingut musical per al seu anàlisi, o tractar fragments de l’entrada a una base de dades. No hi ha cap limitació, a no ser la seva pròpia imaginació.

Produïu eines noves usant el LilyPond

El Lilypond no és un programa monolític amb interfície gràfica, sinó que és una eina de la línia d’ordres, per tant es pot usar també des de dins d’altres aplicacions. D’aquesta manera és possible equipar eines com ara aplicacions web, amb tot el poder de la tipografia musical del LilyPond. De fet ja hi ha diverses eines en línia que utilitzen el LilyPond.

Entorn

Suport excel·lent

El LilyPond funciona a totes les plataformes populars: GNU/Linux, MacOS i Windows. El Lilypond ve amb una completa documentació i sents de fitxers d’exemple. Hi ha una activa comunitat d’usuaris disposada a respondre dubtes i qüestions a la llista de distribució de correu d’usuaris del LilyPond, lilypond-user, que us ofereix una ajuda amigable. El temps de resposta ser molt curt, i freqüentment s’ofereixen solucions brillants als problemes que es plantegen a ella. Gràcies a l’estreta interacció amb l’equip de desenvolupament, aquests solucions s’inclouen al mateix programa LilyPond de forma regular. Seguiu llegint a Comunitat.

Programari lliure

El LilyPond es pot descarregar sense cost! Sí: és gratis. Obteniu-lo a la pàgina de descàrrega.

També és programari lliure, com la llibertat d’expressió. S’ofereix amb el codi font amb el permís de modificar-lo i copiar-lo. Així doncs, esteu fart d’alguna fallada o demaneu alguna funcionalitat determinada? Tan sols afegiu-la personalment, o pagueu a algú que ho faci. Seguiu llegint a Llibertat.

Ara què?

Encara no us convenç el LilyPond? Doneu una ullada a alguns Exemples concrets. Si ja heu decidit provar el LilyPond, en primer lloc informeu-vos de la nostra Entrada de text.

Exemples

El LilyPond és una eina potent i flexible per a tasques de gravat musical de tot tipus. Exploreu lliurement la nostra galeria d’exemples i inspireu-vos!

Música Clàssica

Aquesta peça d’òrgan del J.S. Bach és un projecte força típic de gravat amb el LilyPond.

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Notació complexa

Aquest exemple procedent de les Goyescas de l’Enric Granados mostra algunes de les possibilitat més avançades de la composició tipogràfica, com ara les barres en angle, vírgules de pentagrama creuat i línies de seguiment de veus.

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Música antiga

El LilyPond també contempla diferents tipus de notació antiga, com ara aquest passatge de cant gregorià.

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Música moderna

Els compositors contemporanis troben que el LilyPond és adequat per a la impressió de notació inusual. Heus aquí un extracte de l’obra Čáry, del Trevor Bača, per a flauta baixa sola.

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Creació flexible i eficient de material d’interpretació

Es poden crear diferents materials de lectura a partir del mateix codi font. Heus aquí un extracte de la realització del Nicolas Sceaux de Giulio Cesare del Haendel, en partitura completa, reducció per a piano y veu, i una particel·la de violí.

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Tabulatura

El LilyPond contempla la notació de xifra per a guitarra, que es pot personalitzar per adaptar-la a qualsevol instrument que llegeixi de tabulatura. La pauta de tabulatura es genera automàticament a partir de les notes que s’escriuen al pentagrama normal.

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Gràfics de Schenker

La sortida estàndard es pot modificar de forma molt profunda. Heus aquí una impressionant anàlisi schenkeriana creada pel Kris Schaffer, per a un article a la revista Linux Journal. S’han afegit alguns colors per millorar la visibilitat.

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Sortida personalitzada

Un petit fragment de la Klavierstück II de Stockhausen, per demostrar la capacitat del LilyPond d’oferir una sortida personalitzada.

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Música vocal

El LilyPond és excel·lent per a tot tipus de música vocal, des d’himnes de música sacra fins a òperes. A continuació presentem un motet medieval amb uns requisits lleugerament inusuals. La veu de tenor està escrita en un compàs diferent a les altres però s’ha d’alinear com si estigués al mateix compàs. El LilyPond tracta aquesta situació amb molta elegància. Observeu també els incípit amb les claus a l’estil de l’edició vaticana, les vírgules barrades que indiquen notes repetides, i els parèntesis de lligadura per sobre de certs grups de notes.

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Aplicacions per a l’educació

El LilyPond està molt indicat també per a aplicacions educatives. Heus aquí un exemple d’un senzill exercici de contrapunt.

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Música pop

És senzill crear fulls guia d’acords en xifrat americà per a música pop amb melodia, lletra, noms d’acords i diagrames de posicions d’acord. En aquest exemple veiem alguns dels diagrames de posicions predefinides, però es poden personalitzar profundament per complir amb gairebé qualsevol situació.

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Projectes grans

El LilyPond és excel·lent per a projectes grans com ara òperes o també obres per a orquestra simfònica. A més a més, l’entrada basada en text proporciona una major accessibilitat (aquest exemple ha estat aportat per Hu Haipeng, un compositor cec).

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

Ara què?

Encara no us convenç el LilyPond? El LilyPond és programari lliure, us concedeix, com a usuari, la Llibertat. Si ja voleu provar el LilyPond, llegiu primer el que tenim a dir-vos sobre la Entrada de text.

Llibertat

Software lliure

GNU El LilyPond està escrit i mantingut per una comunitat d’entusiastes. Està publicat sota la Llicència General Pública de GNU i la Llicència de Documentació Lliure de GNU, donant a tothom la llibertat d’arreglar, modificar i ampliar el programa. La creació de música bella no hauria de requerir centenars d’euros en programari!

Quins són els beneficis per als usuaris?

Sense cost: descarregueu-lo i proveu-lo! Que podeu perdre?
Compartir: si us agrada el programa passeu una còpia a les vostres amistats, professors i professores, alumnes i col·legues!
Disponibilitat de la font: si teniu curiositat sobre com el LilyPond crea algun tipus de notació musical, podeu veure exactament com està feta.
Ampliable: podeu afegir noves funcionalitats, corregir errors i canviar el funcionament. Si no sabeu programar, podeu contractar a algun programador perquè faci aquestes tasques.
Això pot semblar poc atractiu per a músics ocasionals, però la capacitat d’expandir el programari pot ser molt valuosa per als compositors seriosos, empreses i acadèmics.
Seguretat per al futur: si una empresa comercial fa fallida, que passa amb qualsevol música electrònica que depengui dels seus productes? Això no és un problema amb el LilyPond; fins i tot si tot l’equip de desenvolupament l’abandonés (cosa extremadament improbable), el programa encara seguiria estant disponible de forma legal per a la seva còpia, modificacions i distribució.

Perquè “regalen” els desenvolupadors del LilyPond la seva feina sense demanar res a canvi?

Gairebé tots nosaltres veiem el desenvolupament del LilyPond com un hobby o un treball voluntari. Això doncs, la pregunta és realment “perquè les persones es presten voluntàries?”

Per diversió: el treball a la recerca d’una meta pot ser divertit, especialment quan treballes en equip!
Metes comuns: tots nosaltres volem partitures amb bon aspecte, però són pocs els que tenen experiència (i cap té temps) per crear un programa que pugui fer front a totes les situacions. Treballant en equips (una persona millora el codi que traça les barres de corxera, una altra millora la forma de les lligadures i una tercera escriu documentació explicant com utilitzar aquestes possibilitats) podem assolir la nostra meta amb tan sols una fracció de l’esforç individual.
La “cultura del regal”: el moviment del programari lliure ha creat molts projectes genials de programari, com ara GNU/Linux, Mozilla Firefox i el joc Battle for Wesnoth. Després d’haver-se vist beneficiats per aquests projectes, alguns desenvolupadores desitgen “retornar” alguna cosa a la comunitat.
Experiència laboral: les contribucions a projectes de programari lliure són una magnífica forma de practicar la programació, l’escripture de documentació, la traducció de documentació o el disseny. Aquesta experiència ha ajudat a molts programadors a trobar feina a empreses o a universitats.

I ara què?

Encara no us convenç el LilyPond? Llegiu el nostre estens assaig sobre la nostra filosofia de gravar a Rerefons. Si ja voleu provar el LilyPond, en primer lloc llegiu el que hem escrit sobre la Entrada de text.

Rerefons

Monografia sobre el rerefons

Tenim una àmplia monografia que descriu l’estètica computacional: l’art de crear bellesa amb un ordinador.

És una lectura interessant si voleu profunditzar en la discussió de les nostres idees fonamentals. A causa del seu volum, s’ofereix com un «manual». Si voleu llegir-lo ara, continueu cap a Monografia.

I ara què?

Encara no us convenç el LilyPond? Llegiu quelcom sobre les Produccions i partitures d’alguns dels nostres usuaris. Si ja voleu provar el LilyPond, en primer lloc llegiu alguna cosa sobre la nostra Entrada de text.

Produccions

Producciones que usan LilyPond

Aquí podeu informar-vos sobre les persones que usen efectivament el LilyPond en les seves produccions, ja sigui per interpretacions en viu de la seva música o com a partitures publicades.

Concerts

La música gravada amb el LilyPond s’ha utilitzat en interpretacions i actuacions per tot el mon. Alguns titulars:

Aurélien Bello va arreglar una versió del Der Rosenkavalier de Richard Strauss per a quatre cantants i orquestra de cambra composta per a trenta instrumentistes. La producció va ser encarregada per l’Orquestra Filarmònica de Berlin, els membres d la qual van ser els intèrprets el 2 i el 7 d’abril a la Festspielhaus de Baden-Baden, i el 26 d’abril a la Philharmonie (großer Saal) de Berlín. Ens encanta veure músics de alta reputació tocant a partir de partitures fetes amb el LilyPond (i segons sembla estan molt contents amb elles).
Aurélien també ha reorquestrat Der Ring des Nibelungen del Richard Wagner a una per a nens de 100 minuts de durada. Està escrita per a orquestra simfònica estàndard però amb una plantilla reduïda de cantants, i va ser interpretada per la Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin a l’abril de 2014 a l’Atze Musiktheater de Berlín. El director va ser el Heiko Matthias Förster.
El Joe Smeets va crear partitures per al llibre infantil Zing Mee (Canta amb mi) de l’Annie M.G. publicat per Querido (ISBN 9789045106205): www.queridokinderenjeugdboeken.nl; partitures d’assaig de cor per a la traducció holandesa del Saint Nicolas del Benjamin Britten realitzat per Muziektheater Hollands Diep el 2011, www.muziektheaterhollandsdiep.nl. També va treballar en la partitura general i particel·les d’un arranjament del Boris Godunov del Mussorgsky per a quartet de vent, piano i percussió. Es va interpreta el 2014, de nou per part de Muziektheater Hollands Diep.
Una edició crítica de la sèrie d’òperes Enea nel Lazio (1760), del Tommaso Traetta, amb llibret del Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi, en quatre parts: Primera part Segona part Tercera part Quarta part Creada pel Luca Rossetto Casel per a la seva tesi de doctorat.
Els Quadres d’una exposició del Mussorgsky, reorquestrats i dirigits per l’Aurélien Bello amb la orquestra Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg a l’octubre de 2011 i l’abril de 2012.
Kieren MacMillan, compositor i director musical. Entre les seves nombroses recents estan Go Thy Way, interpretada pel cor Salt Lake Choral Artists al març de 2012; la Just Out of Reach Suite interpretada pel Duo Chrysalis ; thrafsmata interpretada al juliol de 2011 pel Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
Anonymous Student Compliment or Complaint, del Mike Solomon, guanyador d’entre 172 participants procedents de 22 països del concurs de composició Left Coast de 2011. Entre altres obres estan: Norman (age 1) per a clarinet sol, interpretada al festival de música electroacústica (FEMF) de la Universitat de Florida a l’octubre de 2010.
Una edició moderna de la Serenata Erminia de l’Alessandro Scarlatti, editada pel musicòleg Thomas Griffin, (Roma, Itàlia). Interpretada el 22 d’octubre de 2010 a la Galleria del Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano de Nàpols. Alessandro Scarlatti 2010, durant les commemoracions dels 350 anys del naixement del compositor.
La interpretació de Mercury Baroque de Armide de Lully, 15 i 16 de maig de 2009, a Houston, Texas (tipografia del Nicolas Sceaux).
Extractes instrumentals de Hippolyte et Aricie del Rameau a l’església de St. James a Manhattan, el 8 de maig de 2009, pel Frederick Renz i el seu conjunt Early Music New York (realització tipogràfica de Nicolas Sceaux).
Affaire Étrangère, òpera del Valentin Villenave, amb llibret en francès del Lewis Trondheim, estrenada l’1 de febrer de 2009 a L’Opéra National de Montpellier, a França.

Partitures publicades

El Projecte Mutopia inclou més de 1500 partitures de música clàssica per a la seva descàrrega lliure, i és el principal aparador de partitures del Lilypond.
Etude, “partitures en versió extra” és una aplicació per a l’iPhone que presenta en pantalla música per a piano editada amb el LilyPond, entre elles moltes peces procedents de Mutopia. L’aplicació inclou un teclat virtual de piano que mostra les tecles que cal clicar per ajudar als principiants que estan aprenent a llegir música.
Adoro Music Publishing, partitures de música sacra d’alta qualitat, disponible per a la seva descàrrega immediata o en el format tradicional de paper.
The Shady Lane Publishing, una “micro editorial musical” la meta de la qual és promoure una nova forma d’economia més propera als músics i als amants de la música.

Si coneixeu qualssevol altres concerts o partitures que mereixin aparèixer relacionats aquí, us preguem que ens ho feu saber escrivint un missatge a la llista de correu bug-lilypond. Si no esteu subscrit a la llista, encara ho podeu fer a la página informativa.

I ara què?

Encara no us convenç el LilyPond? Llegiu algunes de les Ressenyes dels nostres usuaris. Si ja voleu provar el LilyPond, en primer lloc informeu-vos sobre la nostra Entrada de text.

Ressenyes

Que diu la gent sobre el LilyPond?

Articles publicats

Abril de 2011
Linux Magazine publica un article titulat Projects on the Move. És un article introductori sobre el MuseScore, el LilyPond i el Chordii. L’autora Carla Schroeder diu que “LilyPond es treballa des de la línia d’ordres, però que la manca d’una interfície gràfica no ha d’atemorir l’usuari; el LilyPond és amigable i fàcil d’aprendre”, i aporta un exemple fàcil d’abordar.
Maig de 2010
Peter Kirn, al lloc web Create Digital Music website, publica una revisió del LilyPond. Aporta una mirada equilibrada sobre la utilització, lloa la notació d’alta qualitat del LilyPond i suggereix als lectors que el provin.
Setembre de 2009
La revista LinuxUser alemanya va publicar un article sobre el LilyPond.
Agost de 2009
Ann Drinan, a la pàgina Polyphonic.org, presenta alguns comentaris de dos arxivers d’orquestra que xerren sobre l’ús de programari per al manteniment de les seves biblioteques.
Juny de 2009
A un article publicat a la revista anual de la Associació Nacional de Pares d’Alumnes de Conservatoris de França, el compositor i membre del projecte LilyPond, Valentin Villenave, explica com les llicències lliures, i concretament les partitures escrites amb el LilyPond, participen de l’objectiu d’aconseguir que la música escrita sigui accessible per a tots.
Febrer de 2008
A articles en la seva pàgina personal, l’Andrew Hawryluk compara al Finale amb el LilyPond en termes generals, i avalua en detall les possibilitats de gravat musical dels dos programes. El segon article és una instructiva anàlisi de l’edició del Preludi per a piano número 6 del Rachmaninoff, incloent-hi comparacions amb una edició de referència gravada a mà.
Juny de 2006
DistroWatch premia al LilyPond k escriu “Dames i cavallers, ens complau anunciar que, basant-nos en la demanda dels lectors, la donació de DistroWatch de maig de 2006 ha estat concedida al LilyPond (190,00 €) i a Lua (US$250,00).”
Desembre de 2005
Linux Journal publica un article titulat Elabori fantàstics gràfics de Schenker amb el GNU LilyPond. És un article destacat, profund però pràctic amb atractius gràfics de LilyPond. L’autor, Kris Shaffer, destaca: “El Gnu LilyPond genera uns gràfics preciosos que a les alternatives comercials semblar de segona fila.”
20 d’agost de 2005
El diari belga De Standaard investiga què empeny als autors de programari lliure en un article titulat Delen van KENNIS zonder WINSTBEJAG (Compartir el coneixement sense ànim de lucre) al seu ‘DS2 bijlage’. El LilyPond s’usa com a exemple i l’article està esquitxat de cites procedents d’una entrevista per email amb Jan Nieuwenhuizen. Això marca la primera aparició del LilyPond a la premsa escrita d’importància.
Juny de 2005
Un article en francès sobre el llançament del LilyPond 2.6 va aparèixer en linuxfr.org.
Octubre de 2004
Els editor de Computer!Totaal, una revista holandesa d’informàtica, descriuen al LilyPond en l’edició d’octubre de 2004 com: “Meravellós programari lliure (de codi obert) (…) Les partitures produïdes pel LilyPond son excepcionalment boniques (…) un sistema molt potent que pot fer gairebé qualsevol cosa.”
Juliol/agost de 2004
Dave Phillips va escriure un article introductori per a Linux Journal At the Sounding edge: Lilypond, primera i segona part.
Març de 2004
Chris Cannam va entrevistar a Han-Wen Nienhuys i a Jan Nieuwenhuizen a linuxmusician.com (una pàgina ara desapareguda). Aquesta entrevistat es va ressenyar també a una història de slashdot.
Febrer de 2004
El cantant de jazz Gail Selkirk escriu sobre Submergir-se a l’estany dels nenúfars (Lily Pond). “… pot fer fulls guia d’acords o parts orquestrals completes, i el resultat pot ser increïble.” Computer Music Special, número CMS06.

Ressenyes dels usuaris

Carter Brey, primer violoncel de la Filharmònica de Nova York

“… He escrit un parell de peces per a violoncel solista que he imprès amb el LilyPond i que enviaré a Schirmer per a la seva publicació. Puc apostar que el seu gravat no serà ni la meitat de bo que el meu!”

Orm Finnendahl, professor de composició, Conservatori Superior de Friburg

“Tot i que no domino el [LilyPond] encara, estic molt impressionat. Vaig usar el programa per digitalitzar un motet del Josquin Desprez en notació mensural i no hi ha dubte que LilyPond derrota a altres programes de notació en quant a velocitat, facilitat d’ús i aparença dels resultats!”

Darius Blasband, compositor (Brussel·les, Bèlgica)

“[...després de primer assaig orquestral] vaig obtenir nombrosos complits sobre la qualitat de les partitures. El que és encara més important: mentre que el LilyPond proporciona nombroses formes de millorar l’aparença de les partitures, el que vaig lliurar a l’orquestra és bàsicament la impressió en brut, sense retocar.”

Kieren MacMillan, compositor (Toronto, Canadà)

“Gràcies i enhorabona a l’equip de desenvolupament pel seu increïble treball. Mai no he vist quelcom que s’apropi al resultat que obtinc amb el LilyPond; confio plenament en què les meves necessitats de publicació musical seran satisfetes més enllà de tota expectativa usant aquesta genial aplicació. (…) bàsicament, la impressió del LilyPond sense retocar (…) es veu millor que la majoria de les publicacions "professionals" més recents amb les quals l’he comparat (per exemple pràcticament qualsevol partitura de Warner Bros, i fins i tot moltes de les més recents de ‘les editores antigues’). (…)”

“Supera això, Finale/Sibelius/Igor/el que sigui!!!”

Chris Cannam, programador principal del projecte RoseGarden

“LilyPond és, obviament, el King Kong [de la tipografia musical] en gran.”

Chris Snyder, Adoro Music Publishing

“La forma en què s’introdueix la música per a LilyPond em fa pensar d’una manera més musical – hi ha hagut molts cops que m’he bloquejat sobre com dir-li al Lily que imprimeixi alguna cosa, sols per adonar-me que fins i tot si fes exactament el que el compositor volia, la música seria confusa de llegir. El LilyPond m’ho posa molt més fàcil en treballar en el meu doble paper d’editor i copista.”

“Porto utilitzant exclusivament el LilyPond per al meu negoci de publicació acabat d’inaugurar. Pràcticament sense excepció, tots els compositors s’han quedat bocabadats per la qualitat del gravat que se’l presentava amb les proves de la seva música prèvia a la publicació. Em reservo part del mèrit d’això (ocupo molt temps a alterar els resultats, especialment les lligadures, sobretot als acords), però el LilyPond em dóna un excel·lent punt de partida, una interfície molt intuïtiva, i la capacitat de modificar absolutament qualsevol cosa si el vull dedicar el temps necessari. Estic convençut que cap producte comercial se li apropa ni de lluny.”

David Bobroff, trombó baix, Orquestra Simfònica d’Islàndia

“Crec que el LilyPond és genial (…) quant més aprenc del LilyPond, més m’agrada!”

Vaylor Trucks, intèrpret de guitarra elèctrica (sí, parent de...)

“Estic súper-impressionat amb el LilyPond (…)”

“¡¡¡EL MILLOR PROGRAMA DE LA HISTÒRIA!!!”

“Moltíssimes gràcies a tots pel vostre dur treball i dedicació!”

Nicolas Sceaux, col·laborador de Mutopia

“Tenia una espècie de relació passió-odi amb el LilyPond. Passió perquè la primera partitura que vaig veure era tan increïble! La descripció del LilyPond es fonamenta en la bellesa. Això és massa modèstia! (…) a mesura que el LilyPond millora contínuament i observo com es fan les coses amb el Scheme, tinc cada cop menys frustracions. De totes maneres el que vull dir és: gràcies per donar-nos el Lilypond, és realment bo.”

Werner Lemberg, director d’orquestra al Teatre de Koblenz,

Alemanya, i destacat hacker del GNU

“De qualsevol manera, el LilyPond fa un treball sensacional!”

Paul Davis, desenvolupador del JACK i Ardour

“Crec que el [LilyPond] és un programa increïble, i produeix un resultat realment meravellós. Després d’haver llegit una ressenya sobre ell l’any passat, vaig estar donant la pallissa a diversos amics meus parlant-los del seu potencial.”

El DrlMika Kuuskankare, investigador de la Sibelius Academy de Finlàndia, compositor i autor de l’Expressive Notation Package (ENP)

“Sento el més profund respecte cap al LilyPond i els seus creadors i mantenidors degut a què sé per la meva experiència personal el difícil que pot ser aquest tipus de programari.”

DavidCameron, Músic, tipògraf musical professional i usuari experimentat de SCORE

“EL meu agraïment de tot cor a tot aquell que contribueix a aquest projecte. Jo vaig ser usuari intensiu del SCORE per a cases grans d’edició musical, allà pels anys 90, però ara sento que el LilyPond, per fi, em permet aconseguir exactament el que vull fer sobre la pàgina, especialment quan no es tracta de la pràctica "estàndard".”

Si coneixeu qualssevol altres articles de notícies o testimonis que mereixin aparèixer relacionats aquí, us preguem que ens ho feu saber escrivint un missatge a la llista de correu bug-lilypond. Si no esteu subscrit a la llista, encara ho podeu fer a la página informativa.

Y ara ¿què?

Llegiu el que tenim que dir-vos sobre la nostra Entrada de text.

Entrada de text

“Compilar” la música

(cliqueu per veure imatge més gran ereid-shot

El LilyPond és un sistema compilat: s’executa sobre un arxiu de text que descriu la música. El resultat es pot veure a la pantalla o imprimir-se. De certa manera, el LilyPond se sembla més a un llenguatge de programació que als programes d’edició gràfica de partitures.

No escrivim la música pel procediment d’agafar les notes d’una barra d’eines gràfica i arrossegar-les a una partitura que es refresca de forma dinàmica; escrivim la música teclejant un text. Aquest text és interpretat (o “compilat”) per part del LilyPond, que al seu torn produeix una bella música impresa.

És possible que les persones acostumades a interfícies gràfiques d’usuari hagin d’aprendre una forma de treball nova, però els resultats, sense cap mena de dubte, mereixen la pena!

Nota: Presentem aquí una panoràmica del nostre paradigma d’entrada de tex: no és tan complicat com sona! No us amoïneu ara per comprendre tots i cadascú dels detalls d’aquests exemples; la nostra documentació per a principiants s’ocupa de tot això a un ritme molt més progressiu.

L’ela amb l’ela, "La"

Les notes es codifiquen mitjançant lletres i números. Les instruccions especials s’introdueixen mitjançant barres invertides.

Les alteracions es fan amb noms diferents: afegiu -is per obtenir un sostingut, i -es per a un bemoll (són els noms de les notes en holandès, però estan disponibles en altres idiomes). El LilyPond esbrina on s’han d’imprimir les alteracions.

Música pop

Aplegui acords i lletra per obtenir un full guia d’acords:

Particel·les d’orquestra

El fitxer d’entrada conté les notes d’una peça musical La partitura i les particel·les es poden fer a partir d’un sol fitxer d’entrada, de manera que un canvi en una nota sempre afecta tant a les particel·les com a la partitura general. Per poder incloure la mateixa música en diversos llocs, assignem la música a una “variable” (un nom):

Aquesta variable s’usa aleshores a una sola part instrumental (aquí transportada, amb els silencis de diversos compassos agrupats):

La mateixa variable s’utilitza a la partitura general (aquí en to de concert):

Documentació per al principiant

Ens adonem que molts usuaris veuen una mica estranya aquesta forma d’introduir la música. Per aquest motiu, hem escrit una àmplia documentació d’ajuda als nous usuaris, començant amb Aprenentage. El manual d’aprenentatge és el millor per començar, perquè allí es responen moltes preguntes abans que es formulin.

Us preguem que llegeixi el Manual d’Aprenentatge abans de queixar-vos de possibles fallades del programa! Amb freqüència, els usuaris novells creuen que el LilyPond no funciona, quan de fet està funcionant exactament tal i com està dissenyat per fer-lo.

Teniu a la vostra disposició una documentació molt més profunda a la secció Manuals.

Ben Lemon, usuari del LilyPond, ha creat i publicat una col·lecció de tutorials en vídeo al seu blog, dirigits a nous usuaris.

Entorns d’edició facilitats

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

L’èmfasi del LilyPond està en primer lloc en la producció de música escrita amb la màxima qualitat; la creació d’una interfície gràfica d’usuari (un GUI) ens hauria distret d’aquesta meta. Malgrat això, hi ha altres projectes els propòsits dels quals és fer més fàcil la creació de fitxers d’entrada del LilyPond.

Alguns entorns d’edició inclouen el acolorit sintàctic, compleció automàtica d’instruccions i plantilles pre-elaborades. D’altres programes ofereixen realment un GUI que permet la manipulació directa d’una partitura gràfica. Per veure més informació, consulteu Entorns millorats.

I ara què?

Ja teniu la preparació per Descarregar el LilyPond. Encara no esteu convençut? Llegiu quelcom sobre els entorns d’edició a Entorns millorats.

Entorns millorats

Aplicacions amb interfície gràfica

Frescobaldi

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

https://www.frescobaldi.org El Frescobaldi és un editor de música i text lleuger tot i que potent, amb moltes funcions creades especialment per al LilyPond. Entre les seves principals possibilitats estan els enllaços per d’apuntar i clicar amb el ratolí entre el codi i la vista prèvia de la música, detallats assistents de partitura, un navegador incorporat per a la documentació del Lilypond, sintaxi amb colors i completat automàtic de les paraules clau. El Frescobaldi està escrit amb Python amb el PyQt4 per a la interfície d’usuari, i funciona als principals sistemes operatius (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X i Windows).

Denemo

(cliqueu per veure una imatge més gran)

http://denemo.org

El Denemo és un editor gràfic que genera codi font del LilyPond, en la versió 2.8.7, i també permet la reproducció sonora de la música. Permet els usuaris veure el codi d’entrada de LilyPond en paral·lel amb la visualització gràfica. Es poden aplicar a les notes, acords, etc., ajustament addicionals del LilyPond i es desen amb el document del Denemo, de forma que els usuaris poden continuar editant-lo de manera gràfica.

En moure el cursor pel text del LilyPond es mou també a la presentació gràfica, i els errors de sintaxi dels ajustaments al LilyPond es destaquen a la finestra de text quan s’imprimeixen des del programa.

Editores basados en el navegador web

LilyBin

http://lilybin.com

Un editor del LilyPond basat en web, on podeu crear les vostres partitures directament online sense necessitat d’instal·lar el Lilypond.

Tunefl

http://www.tunefl.com

Amb el tunefl es poden gravar les partitures senzilles de forma directa en línia sense necessitat d’instal·lar el LilyPond localment. Permet provar totes les capacitats del programa usant una interfície web còmoda.

Complements d’IDE

Elysium

http://elysium.thsoft.hu

L’Elysium és un entorn integrat de desenvolupament per a Eclipse, amb una vista integrada en dos panells enfrontats per a la font i la partitura. Inclou realimentació visual ràpida i intuïtiva sense haver d’alternar entre contextos, i porta moltes plantilles conduïdes per assistents.

Emacs

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ L’Emacs és un editor de text amb funcionalitats avançades per a molts llenguatges de programació. L’Emacs és un editor que es pot expandir àmpliament i es pot usar com un entorn integrat de desenvolupament. Hi ha un ‘mode del LilyPond’ que ofereix les definicions del llenguatge per treballar amb fitxers font del LilyPond. Un desenvolupador ha escrit lyqi, un mode principal de l’Emacs.

Si no esteu familiaritzat prèviament amb l’Emacs, potser preferireu usar un editor diferent per a l’escriptura de fitxers del LilyPond.

Hi ha més informació sobre la configuració de l’Emacs a Suport per als editors de text.

Vim

https://www.vim.org El Vim és un editor de text minimalista que és una estensió de l’antic editor vi de l’Unix. També és es pot expandir i configurar.

Si no esteu familiaritzat prèviament amb l’Emacs o el Vim, probablement preferireu utilitzar un editor diferent per escriure fitxers d’entrada del LilyPond.

Hi ha més informació sobre la configuració de l’Emacs i del Vim a Suport per als editors de text.

TeXShop

http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop

L’editor TeXShop per a MacOS X es pot estendre perquè executi el LilyPond lilypond-book i convert-ly des de dins de l’editor, utilitzant les extensions que estan disponibles a:

http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~nicola.vitacolonna/home/content/lilypond-scripts

Altres programes capaços d’exportar codi del LilyPond

Editors de partitura, tablatura i MIDI:

bwwtolily intenta convertir un fixer .bww o .bmw al LilyPond. Tot i que no tots els ornaments es converteixen adequadament (el que és cert especialment amb piobaireachd), el programa imprimeix una llista d’ells.
Canorus, un editor de partitures, també pot exportar al LilyPond, però encara és un programa en fase beta, s’agraeixen les provatures per part dels usuaris.
Enc2ly és un programa per a GNU/Linux que converteix una partitura musical d’Encore en una del LilyPond.
go-enc2ly és una eina de GO que converteix fitxers de Encore al LilyPond. Es va crear utilitzant la recerca i la enginyeria inversa per mitjà de la modificació puntual de fitxers .enc i carregant-los a la versió de demostració 4.55.
NW2LY és un programa en C# que converteix una cançó del NoteWorthy Composer al LilyPond.
Ripple és un programa que ajuda en la creació de partitures i particel·les, i que inclou un mode per barrejar diferents obres musicals a una sola partitura o particel·la.
Rosegarden, un seqüenciador MIDI i d’àudio, que té també un editor de partitura per a edició d’un sol pentagrama.

Generadors de codi algorítmics

Abjad, una API de Python per al control formalitzat de partitures, dissenyat per ajudar als compositors a construir fragments complexos de notació del LilyPond d’una forma iterativa i incremental.
FOMUS, (FOrmat MUSic) és una eina de notació musical per a compositors de música per ordinador. Està escrit en al llenguatge Lisp, i s’ha provat amb diversos intèrprets. També hi ha disponible una versió traduïda al llenguatge C++.
Strasheela, un entorn construït sobre el llenguatge de restriccions Mozart/Oz.

Altres programes sense desenvolupament actiu actualment

LilyPondTool va ser creat amb una extensió per a l’editor de text jEdit.
LilyKDE s’ha substituït per Frescobaldi, i existeix com a LilyKDE3 per a KDE 3.5 i com a lilypond-KDE4 per a KDE 4.1 solament.
LilyComp és un programa gràfic d’introducció de notes, que actua com un teclat numèric que produeix notes del LilyPond.
MuseScore, un editor de partitures. L’exportació de codi del LilyPond es va descartar en la versió 2.0, però encara estan disponible versions més antigues per a descarregar a Sourceforge.
NoteEdit, que importava MusicXML, s’ha escindit a NtEd i Canorus.
OOoLilyPond, una extensió de l’OpenOffice.org que converteix fitxers del LilyPond a imatge dins de documents de l’OpenOffice .org. Tot i que ja no s’està desenvolupant de forma activa, encara sembla funciona amb la versió 4.
Rumor, un convertidor monofònic de MIDI al LilyPond en temps real.
TuxGuitar, un editor i reproductor multipista de tabulatura, que inclou un visor de partitura i pot exportar al LilyPond.

I ara què?

Ja teniu la preparació per Descarregar el LilyPond.

Encara no us convenç? Molts compositors, músics i directors d’orquestra han après a escriure música en el nostre format d’entrada. Els usuaris amb experiència fins i tot que poden introduir una partitura completa al LilyPond més ràpid que amb un teclat de piano o amb el ratolí i un GUI! Possiblement us agradi donar una ullada a les Possibilitats, Exemples o a la Llibertat i Ressenyes dels nostres usuaris. A més a més, el nostre enfoc de l’estètica computacional del gravat musical clàssic ve explicat en el nostre tractat sobre el Rerefons.

Formalitats legals

Es reconeix el copyright de tots els logotips i imatges de marca de productes.

Tux, el pingüí del Linux, és obra de lewing@isc.tamu.edu feta amb el Programa de Manipulació de Imatges del GNU.

El logotip del FreeBSD és una marca registrada de The FreeBSD Foundation.

La “imatge de la X” no és una marca registrada. És obra de Nihonjoe i CyberSkull, i es va posar sota la llicència de Documentació Lliure del GNU versió 1.2 o posterior. Trobem aquesta imatge a aquesta pàgina de la Wikimedia Commons.

La “imatge dels quatre rectangles de colors” no és una marca registrada. És obra de Rohitbd i està posada sota la llicència de Documentació Lliure del GNU, versió 1.2. Trobem aquesta imatge a aquesta pàgina de la Wikimedia Commons.

Download

Downloads for LilyPond 2.24.4

Essential links

For new users

Entrada de text: 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

GNU/Linux x86_64: LilyPond 2.24.4

Windows

Downloads for Generic Packages

These binaries work under current Windows versions (Windows 7 and Windows 8 are not supported).

Windows x86_64: LilyPond 2.24.4

macOS

Downloads for Generic Packages

These binaries work on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and higher. For older macOS versions, please use MacPorts.

macOS x86_64: LilyPond 2.24.4

Using a Package Manager

MacPorts, a package manager for macOS, has a LilyPond port.
Homebrew, another package manager for macOS, has a LilyPond formula.

For developers

Source: for packagers

Old downloads: old versions

Desenvolupament: latest unstable version

Software License

LilyPond is published under the GNU General Public License.

Legalese

All logos and product images are copyright and trademark acknowledged.

Tux, el pingüí del Linux, és obra de lewing@isc.tamu.edu feta amb el Programa de Manipulació de Imatges del GNU.

Source

Nota: We do not recommend that you attempt to build LilyPond yourself; almost all user needs are better met with the pre-built version.

Source tarball

Source: lilypond-2.24.4.tar.gz

Compiling instructions are listed in Compiling.

Old downloads

All versions

To obtain the source and binaries for any release, visit our GitLab releases page for versions since 2.23.6, or the previous download site for earlier versions.

GPL

Software license

GNU LilyPond is published under the GNU General Public License. An introduction to this license, and our reasons for choosing it, is given in Llibertat.

GNU General Public License

Version 3, 29 June 2007

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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
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Manuals

Manuals del LilyPond 2.25.21

Introducció

Entrada de text: El LilyPond és un sistema de gravat musical basat en text. Llegiu això primer!
Aprenentatge: una introducció al LilyPond amable i “imprescindible”. (detalls de Aprenentatge)
Glossari: (lectura opcional) termes musicals i traduccions. (detalls de Glossari)
Essay: (lectura opcional) la informació de rerefons sobre gravat musical (detalls de Essay)

Ús freqüent

Notació: referència de la sintaxi. (detalls de Notació)
Utilizació: com executar els programes. (detalls de Utilització)
Fragments: trucs i consells curts. (detalls de Fragments)

Ús infreqüent

FAQ: Preguntes més freqüents (Frequently Asked Questions).
Web: aquest document. (detalls de Web)
Canvis: que hi ha de nou? (detalls de Canvis)
Extensió: trucs interessants. (detalls de Extensió)
Funcionament intern: referències sobre com fer trucs. (detalls de Funcionament intern)

Altres materials

Tots: Versions estables anteriors i versió actual com un fitxer comprimit.
LilyPond Snippet Repository (el magatzem de fragments de codi del LilyPond): exemples, consells, i trucs creats pels usuaris.
Video Tutorials: Ben Lemon, usuari del LilyPond, ha creat i publicat un cert nombre de tutorials de vídeo al seu blog que són adequats per a usuaris nous.
Desenvolupament: manuals per a la versió de desenvolupament.
FDL: aquests manuals estan publicats sota la Llicència de Documentació Lliure de GNU.

Formats dels manuals

En general, els manuals del LilyPond es presenten en tres formats: HTML seccionat, HTML monolític i PDF. L’HTML seccionat és adequat per a la lectura en línia. L’HTML monolític (alguns d’aquests fitxers poden ser molt grans) conté tot el manual a una sola pàgina. El PDF està disponible per a la seva descàrrega i per usar-lo fora de línia. Per obtenir cada un dels tres formats, seguiu els enllaços amb el text detalls de i a continuació el nom del manual.

Aprenentage

Manual d’aprenentatge

Aquest llibre explica com començar a aprendre el LilyPond, així com alguns conceptes clau en termes senzills. Hauríeu de llegir aquests capítols en seqüència lineal.

Al final de totes les seccions hi ha un paràgraf Vegeu també que conté referències creuades a altres seccions: no hauríeu de seguir les referències creuades la primera vegada que llegiu el manual. Quan hàgiu llegir tot el manual, us convindrà llegir de nou algunes seccions i seguir aquestes referències creuades per obtenir més informació.

Léalo

Aprenentatge (HTML seccionat) − el manual està dividit en moltes pàgines HTML.
(una descàrrega petita per cada pàgina)
Aprenentatge (HTML monolític) − llegiu aquest manual com una sola pàgina HTML enorme.
(una sola descàrrega gran)
learning.pdf − descarregueu-lo com un fitxer en format PDF.
(una sola descàrrega gran, 3.4M)

Glossari

El glossari explica termes musicals i inclou traduccions a diversos idiomes. Si no teniu familiaritat amb la notació o a terminologia musicals (en especial si no sou parlant nadiu de l’anglès), es recomana ferventment que consulteu el glossari.

Léalo

Glossari musical (HTML seccionat) − el manual està dividit en moltes pàgines HTML.
(una descàrrega petita per cada pàgina)
Glossari musical (HTML monolític) − llegiu aquest manual com una sola pàgina HTML enorme.
(una sola descàrrega gran)
music-glossary.pdf − descarregueu-lo com un fitxer en format PDF.
(una sola descàrrega gran, 568K)

Monografia

Aquest llibre ofereix una història breu de la tipografia musical, seguida d’un examen de les tècniques de gravat musical del LilyPond. Es fa una comparació entre el LilyPond i d’altres sistemes de tipografia musical.

Nota: Els exemples tipogràfics detallats s’analitzen millor a la versió en format PDF a causa de la seva major resolució.

Léalo

Essay (HTML seccionat) − el manual està dividit en moltes pàgines HTML.
(una descàrrega petita per cada pàgina)
Essay (HTML monolític) − llegiu aquest manual com una sola pàgina HTML enorme.
(una sola descàrrega gran)
essay.pdf − descarregueu-lo com un fitxer en format PDF.
(una sola descàrrega gran, 1.3M)

Notació

Referència de la notació

Aquest llibre explica totes les instruccions del LilyPond que produeixen notació musical.

Nota: La Referència de la Notació suposa que el lector coneix el material bàsic que apareix al Manual d’Aprenentatge i té familiaritat amb els termes musicals anglesos que es presenten al Glossari Musical.

Léalo

Notació (HTML seccionat) − el manual està dividit en moltes pàgines HTML.
(una descàrrega petita per cada pàgina)
Notació (HTML monolític) − llegiu aquest manual com una sola pàgina HTML enorme.
(una sola descàrrega gran)
notation.pdf − descarregueu-lo com un fitxer en format PDF.
(una sola descàrrega gran, 6.4M)

Utilització

Manual d’utilització del programa

Aquest llibre explica com executar els programes, com integrar la notació del LilyPond amb altres programes, i suggereix “bones pràctiques” per a un ús eficient d’aquestes eines. Es recomana la seva lectura abans d’afrontar projectes grans.

Léalo

Utilització (HTML seccionat) − el manual està dividit en moltes pàgines HTML.
(una descàrrega petita per cada pàgina)
Utilització (HTML monolític) − llegiu aquest manual com una sola pàgina HTML enorme.
(una sola descàrrega gran)
usage.pdf − descarregueu-lo com un fitxer en format PDF.
(una sola descàrrega gran, 436K)

Fragments

Aquest manual presenta un conjunt seleccionat de fragments de codi del LilyPond extrets del Repositori de fragments de codi del LilyPond (LSR). Tots els fragments es troben al domini públic.

Observeu que aquest document no és un subconjunt estricte del LSR. L’LSR executa una versió estable del LilyPond per la qual cosa qualsevol fragment de codi que mostri funcionalitats noves d’una versió de desenvolupament s’ha d’afegir per separat. Estan emmagatzemats dins de input/new/ a l’arbre de codi font del LilyPond.

La llista de fragments de codi per a cada subsecció del manual de Notació estan enllaçats també a partir de la secció Vegeu també.

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FAQ

Preguntes preliminars

On és la interfície gràfica, els menús i les barres d’eines?

El LilyPond requereix que escrivim la música coma text. Informeu-vos d’això llegint la nostra Entrada de text.

Hi ha un munt de documentació! He de llegir-la?

Heu de llegir el manual de Aprenentage. Respecte a la resta de la documentació, sols heu de llegir les seccions que tracten de la notació que vulgueu crear.

Això és encara molta cosa a llegir! Paga la pena?

Decidiu per vos mateix; les raons per les quals voldríeu utilitzar el LilyPond es poden trobar a la Introducció.

Qüestions sobre la utilització

Quelcom no funciona! Com ho arreglo?

S’explica a Solució de problemes.

Perquè canvien la sintaxi i el llenguatge?

S’explica a Perquè canvia la sintaxi?.

Web

Aquest manual dóna una informació general sobre el LilyPond. També conté informació sobre diversos fòrums de la comunitat, maneres d’informar de les fallades, i desenvolupament.

Llegiu-lo

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Canvis

Això és un resum dels canvis més importants i noves funcionalitats produïdes al LilyPond a partir de la versió estable anterior.

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Extensió

Extensió del LilyPond

Aquest manual explica com escriure extensions del LilyPond.

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Funcionament intern

Referència del funcionament intern

Aquest és un conjunt de pàgines ple de referències creuades que constitueixen la documentació de tots els detalls de cada una de les classes, objectes i funcions del LilyPond. Es produeix directament a partir de les definicions de format del codi font.

Gairebé tota la funcionalitat de format que s’utilitza internament està disponible per a l’usuari directament. Per exemple, gairebé totes les variables que controlen els valors de gruix, les distàncies, etc., es poden modificar als fitxers d’entrada. Hi ha un nombre molt gran d’opcions de format, i totes ells es descriuen en aquest document. Cadascuna de les seccions de la Referència de la Notació té una subsecció Vegeu també, que es refereix a la documentació generada.

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Tots

Versions per descarregar

Els tarballs per descarregar sols estan disponibles a https://lilypond.org

Versions estables anteriors

FDL

Llicència de la documentació

La documentació del GNU LilyPond està publicada sota la Llicència de Documentació Lliure de GNU. Hi ha una introducció a aquesta llicència i a els nostres motius per haver-la escollit, a Llibertat.

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Comunitat

Interactuar amb la comunitat

Contacte: obtenir ajuda, xatejar i, mantenir-se en contacte!
Exemples mínims: són molt recomanables quan es parla del LilyPond.
Informes de fallades: alguna cosa ha anat malament.

Millorar el LilyPond

Presteu la vostra ajuda: se sol·licita la vostra col·laboració.
Patrocini: contribucions financeres.
Desenvolupament: per a col·laboradors i pilots de prova.
GSoC 2012: les nostres idees per a l’edició 2012 del «Google Summer of Code» (Estiu de Codi del Google).
Autors: les persones que han fet el LilyPond el que és.

Miscel·lània

Publicacions: què hem escrit, i que han escrit sobre nosaltres.
Notícies antigues: l’arxiu.
Golfes: anuncis i registres de canvis de versions antigues.

Contacte

Discussió i ajuda entre persones usuàries

Llista de distribució d’usuaris: `lilypond-user@gnu.org`

Aquesta llista de distribució de correu (en anglès) és el lloc principal que tenen els usuaris per discutir i prestar-se ajuda mútua.

subscripció i informació sobre lilypond-user

arxiu 1 de la llista de usuaris arxiu 2

Nota: En formular preguntes, si us plau, utilitzeu Exemples mínims!

El dipòsit de fragments de codi del LilyPond

El dipòsit de fragments de codi del LilyPond és una gran col·lecció d’exemple enviats pels usuaris, que es poden copiar i usar lliurement en les seves pròpies obres. Vegeu les coses que han escrit els altres, i afegiu les vostres pròpies!

https://lsr.di.unimi.it

Els exemples del LSR que són especialment instructius s’inclouen a la nostra documentació oficial, a Fragments.

IRC

Hi existeix un cert grau de suport mitjançant el nostre canal d’IRC,

#lilypond@irc.libera.chat

Aquest canal no té arxius públics, per la qual cosa qualsevol qüestió que pogués ser d’utilitat per als altres usuaris s’hauria d’enviar preferentment a una de les llistes de correu.

Altres idiomes

llista de correu en espanyol

fòrum alemany

grup de portuguès

llista de correu en francès

fòrum d’holandès

Esteu sempre informat

LilyPond Report (l’Informe LilyPond)

La manera més fàcil d’estar en contacte és llegir el butlletí de la nostra comunitat, l’Informe LilyPond:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net

Llista de correu de llançaments: `info-lilypond@gnu.org`

Aquesta llista de distribució de correu és una llista de sols lectura i baix tràfic, que envia notificacions dels últims llançaments.

subscripció i informació sobre info-lilypond

arxiu 1 de la llista info arxiu 2

Discussió entre desenvolupadors

La llista de distribució de desenvolupadors: `lilypond-devel@gnu.org`

Quasi tota la discussió entre desenvolupadors té lloc en aquesta llista. El pegats s’han d’enviar aquí.

subscripció i informació sobre lilypond-devel

arxiu 1 de la llista devel arxiu 2

Llista de fallades: `bug-lilypond@gnu.org`

La discussió específica sobre fallades es produeix aquí.

subscripció i informació sobre bug-lilypond

arxiu 1 de la llista bug arxiu 2

Nota: Abans d’enviar un missatge a la llista de fallades, llegiu les nostres indicacions per elaborar Informes de fallades.

Correus delicats

Els assumptes privats s’han d’enviar a Graham Percival (gestor del projecte), que els discutirà amb les persones pertinents.

Exemples mínims

¿Qué són els “exemples mínims”?

Un exemple mínim és un exemple del que no es pot eliminar res

¿Perquè crear-los?

Quant més simple és l’exemple, més ràpidament poden els desenvolupadors entendre’l i ajudar-vos.
Un exemple mínim demostra que us heu esforçat en resoldre el problema per vos mateix. Quan algú envia blocs grans de codi d’entrada, dóna la impressió que no li importa que l’ajudem o que no ho vol.
La creació d’un exemple mínim us ajuda a entendre el que esta passant. Molts informes falsos de problemes es podrien evitar intentant crear un exemple mínim; si no pot reproduir una “fallada” en un exemple mínim, probablement el problema era una compressió insuficient sobre el LilyPond, no una veritable fallada!

Com es fan?

Inclou el número de versió en una instrucció \version.
Feu-lo petit! Els exemples relacionats amb l’espaiat o la disposició de les pàgines poden requerir molts compassos, però gairebé tots els problemes es poden reproduir mitjançant un sols compàs o menys.
Quan intenti crear un exemple, provi a convertir en comentaris (% o %{ … %}) diferents seccions del fitxer. Si podeu convertir un bloc en un comentari i encara mostrar la idea principal, aleshores elimineu aquest bloc.
Eviteu la utilització de notes, tonalitats o compassos molt complicats, a no ser que la fallada estigui relacionada amb el comportament d’aquests elements.
No utilitzeu instruccions \override ni \set a no ser que la fallada es refereixi a aquestes instruccions en concret.
De forma opcional, adjunteu una imatge que mostri el resultat gràfic que desitgeu.

Quant de petit ha de ser?

El codi que segueix, és un exemple mínim?

\version "2.14.1"
\include "catalan.ly"

\score {
  \new Staff {
    \key re \major
    \numericTimeSignature
    \time 2/4
    <dos' re'' si''>16 <dos' re'' si''>8.
    %% Aquí: la lligadura d'unió sobre els Re tenen un aspecte graciós
    %% Massa alta? El punt final de la mà esquerra no s'alinea
    %% amb la lligadura del Si?
    ~
    <dos' re'' si''>8 [ <si re'' la''> ]
  }
}

Bé, no és molt gran, però vet ací un exemple veritablement mínim:

\version "2.14.1"
{
  % la lligadura intermèdia té un aspecte graciós aquí:
  <c' d'' b''>8. ~ <c' d'' b''>8
}

Molts pocs exemples mínims superen les 10 línies de codi: el més corrent és que hi hagi prou amb 4 línies per mostrar el problema!

Informes de fallades

Si té un codi d’entrada que produeix una terminació abrupta o una sortida defectuosa, això és una fallada.

Pas 1: fallades conegudes

Probablement ja coneixem aquesta fallada. Comproveu-ho aquí:

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues

Nota: Us preguem que NO afegeixi informes de fallades directament al sistema de seguiment. Un cop que un problema s’ha afegit al sistema, ja podeu afegir lliurement més informació a aquest informe.

Pas 2: creació d’un informe de fallada

Si heu descobert una fallada que no estigui a la llista, ajudeu-nos elaborant un informe de fallada.

Nota: Sols acceptem informes en forma de Exemples mínims. Disposem de recursos molt limitats, per la qual cosa qualsevol exemple que no sigui mínim serà rebutjats. Gairebé totes les fallades es poden demostrar amb quatre notes o menys!

Vet ací un exemple d’un bon informe de fallada:

% 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
}

Pas 3: enviar l’informe de fallada

Un copo que heu verificat que el problema no és conegut ja, i heu creat l’informe, podeu enviar-nos-el!

Si esteu subscrit a la llista de correu bug-lilypond@gnu.org, envieu un missatge de la forma habitual.

Pas 4: Esperar resposta

Un cop que el vostre informe de fallada s’ha enviat a la llista, el nostre esquadró de fallades l’examinarà. Potser us demanin més informació. Se us avisarà quen l’informe s’afegeixi al sistema de seguiment de fallades. Doneu-los un temps de uns 4 dies, ja que disposem d’un nombre limitat de voluntaris per a aquesta tasca.

Un cop que la fallada s’ha afegit al sistema de seguiment, podeu comentar-lo per afegir-li més informació. Podeu marcar la fallada amb una estrella de forma que rebeu missatges automàticament quan es produeix cap activitat sobre ella. Això requereix que disposeu un compte del Google.

Ajuda opcional: mostrar el resultat desitjat

Un cop que el problema s’ha afegit al sistema de seguiment, pot ser de molta ajuda que veiem la sortida desitjada. Amb tota llibertat afegiu codi d’entrada i/o imatges (creades possiblement amb altres eines) que mostrin l’aspecte que creieu que ha de tenir!

Presteu la vostra ajuda

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 to 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 Informes de fallades, and/or join the Bug Squad to organize Issues.
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.

Nota: We suggest that contributors using Windows or macOS 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.

Documentation: for large changes, see Documentation work.
Website: the website is built from the normal documentation source. See the info about documentation, and also Website work.
Translations: see Translating the documentation, and Translating the website.
Bugfixes or new features: read Programming work.

Patrocini

Recompenses

Anteriorment,

alguns usuaris han pagat a canvi de noves funcionalitats
alguns desenvolupadors han estat contractats per funcionalitats noves

El projecte LilyPond no organitza aquesta tasques; ni ratifiquem ni dissuadim acords d’aquest tipus. Tot contracte privat entre persones individuals és un assumpte d’aquestes persones, no nostre.

Pautes

Tot usuari que vulgui oferir diners a canvi d’una feina, hauria de tenir en compte els següents punts:

Els desenvolupadors del LilyPond poden anunciar els seus serveis a les llistes de correu del LilyPond de tant en tant.
Tot acord entre persones individuals hauria d’incloure les precaucions normals quen es fan negocis: qui paga, quant paga, quin mètode s’utilitzarà per pagar, i sobre quin paquet de condicions. Suggerim que cap ambigüitat o incertesa en aquest tipus de qüestions es resolguin abans que comenci qualsevol feina.

Desenvolupament

Materials de desenvolupament per al LilyPond 2.25.21

Nota: Aquestes són les versionns inestables de desenvolupment. Si teniu el més lleuger dubte en torn a com usar o instal·lar el LilyPond, us comminem a utilitzar la descàrrega estable, i llegeixi els manuals estables.

Números de versió

Hi ha dos conjunts de llançaments per al LilyPond: llançaments estables, i llançament inestables de desenvolupament. Les versions estables tenen un número de versió ‘menor’ parell (per exemple 2.8, 2.10, 2.12). Les versions de desenvolupament tenen un número ‘menor’ de versió imparell (per exemple 2.7, 2.9, 2.11).

Descàrrega

Les instruccions de Git i per a la compilació estan a la Guia del Col·laborador.

Dipòsit Git del LilyPond

En general els redactors de la documentació i els pilots de proves voldran descarregar l’últim fitxer binari:

GNU/Linux x86_64: LilyPond 2.25.21

macOS arm64: LilyPond 2.25.21

macOS x86_64: LilyPond 2.25.21

Windows x86_64: LilyPond 2.25.21

Font: lilypond-2.25.21.tar.gz

Guia del col·laborador

El desenvolupament del LilyPond és un assumpte força complicat. El LilyPond és un projecte gran i (més o menys) estable. Per poder ajudar als nous col·laboradors, i per mantenir tot el sistema (més o menys) estable, hem escrit un manual per als col·laboradors.

Guia del col·laborador (HTML seccionat) − el manual està dividit en moltes pàgines HTML.
(una descàrrega petita per cada pàgina)
Guia del col·laborador (HTML monolític) − llegiu aquest manual com una sola pàgina HTML enorme.
(una sola descàrrega gran)
contributor.pdf − descarregueu-lo com un fitxer en format PDF.
(una sola descàrrega gran, 812K)

Proves de regressió

Proves de regressió: Proves del llançament actual. (versió PDF)
Proves de regressió del MusicXML: les proves del MusicXML de la versió actual. (versió PDF).
proves de l’abc2ly: Les proves de l’abc2ly d’aquesta versió. (versió en PDF)

Manuals

Nota: Aquests manuals són per al LilyPond 2.25.21; els manuals més recents estan a https://lilypond.org

Introducció
Aprenentatge (HTML seccionat)	Aprenentatge (HTML monolític)	learning.pdf
Glossari (HTML seccionat)	Glossari (HTML monolític)	music-glossary.pdf
Essay (HTML seccionat)	Essay (HTML monolític)	essay.pdf

Estàndard
Notació (HTML seccionat)	Notació (HTML monolític)	notation.pdf
Utilització (HTML seccionat)	Utilització (HTML monolític)	usage.pdf
Fragments (HTML seccionat)	Fragments (HTML monolític)	snippets.pdf

Poc freqüents
Web (HTML seccionat)	Web (HTML monolític)	web.pdf
Canvis (HTML seccionat)	Canvis (HTML monolític)	changes.pdf
Extensions (HTML seccionat)	Extensions (HTML monolític)	extending.pdf
Funcionament intern (HTML seccionat)	Funcionament intern (HTML monolític)	internals.pdf

GSoC 2012

Què és el Google Summer of Code (Estiu del Codi del Google)?

És un programa global portar a terme pel Google que ofereix a estudiants una ajuda perquè treballin en projectes de programari de codi obert durant les vacances d’estiu.

L’equip del LilyPond va decidir que aquesta era una oportunitat excel·lent per trobar col·laboradors nous i animar els estudiants que ja participen en el desenvolupament del LilyPond a què s’impliquin encara més. Un dels nostre col·laboradors ha estat seleccionat per a l’edició del program com a part del project GNU; esperem poder participar també a edicions futures.

La nostra llista d’idees per al 2012

Més a baix hi apareix una llista dels projectes que hem suggerit per als estudiants del GSoC 2012. Tot i que ha finalitzat el plaç de sol·licituds, hem decidit mantenir visible aquesta pàgina com inspiració per a qualsevol persona interessada en el desenvolupament del LilyPond. Alguns membres de l’equip de desenvolupament estan disposats a prestar la seva ajuda a aquells que vulguin implicar-se en aquests projectes.

Per descomptat, hi ha moltes més coses a millorar al LilyPond, entre elles algunes de molt petites. Hi ha una llista completa aquí.

Notes de adorn

Arreglar problemes amb la sincronització de les notes d’adorn, junt a tota l’arquitectura subjacent (vegeu el problema número 34 del nostre sistema de seguiment). Les notes d’adorn confonen el sistema de comptabilització de temps del LilyPond perquè són com anar cap a darrere en el temps. Això causa efectes estranys, en especial quan un pentagrama té una nota d’adorn que un altre no té.

Dificultat: mitjana

Requisits: C++, MIDI

Recomanat: familiaritat amb el funcionament intern del LilyPond

Mentor(s): Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen

MusicXML

Afegir exportació completa del MusicXML i millora de la importació, junt amb les proves de comprovació que funciona. Depenent del temps disponible, implementar alguns a tots els següents:

Manipulació de l’exportació del contingut musical bàsic com ara l’exportació MIDI (és a dir, ús de classes exportadores dedicades, derivades de la classe translator)
Construir l’arbre XMDL del contingut musical bàsic, i una connexió des de l’esdeveniment musical a l’etiqueta XML
Fer que tots els gravadors del LilyPond facin la seva feina
Afegir la possibilitat d’enllaçar cada objecte de presentació (bàsicament cada segell o grup de segells) a la causa musical (així com a l’etiqueta XML dins de l’arbre XML)
Afegir un ‘rerefons’ de sortida XML, que pot després afegir la informació de disposició per a cadascú dels objectes de sortida a les etiquetes del XML

L’objectiu es considerarà aconseguit quan una partitura (prèviament seleccionada) pugui importar-se des del MusicXML i exportada de nou sense cap pèrdua de dades no intencionada.

Dificultat: mitjana

Requisits: MusicXML, Python, coneixement bàsic del LilyPond

Mentor(s): Reinhold Kainhofer, Mike Solomon

Seria un element al vostre favor la familiaritat amb altres editors de partitures per poder fer proves creuades.

Millora de les lligadures d’unió i d’expressió

Sovint la forma predeterminada de les corbes de lligadura no és satisfactòria. No estan contemplades les lligadures d’unió entre notes enharmòniques { dos' - reb' }, les lligadores "trencades" per una clau o un canvi de pauta no estan ben contemplades. El projecte inclou la recol·lecció i ordenació d’exemples de sortida defectuosa, decidir sobre la sortida que es desitja tenir i escriure el codi corresponent.

Dificultat: alta

Requisits: C++, experiència amb heurística de l’escriptura

Coneixements recomanats: LilyPond, sentit estètic

Mentor(s): Mike Solomon

Afegir una variant especial dels caràcters gràfics de font tipogràfica

Afegir variants per a alguns caràcters gràfics, como ara els signes d’alteració, per a línies sobre la pauta, entre pautes, escurçades i estretes, així com una infraestructura genèrica per incorporar-los. Un exemple és el cap de la breu d’una notació antiga, que ve en dues variants, amb l’orifici petit i gran.

Dificultat: fàcil

Requisits: MetaFont, C++, bon ull per als detalls

Coneixements recomanats: coneixements bàsics del LilyPond

Mentor(s): Werner Lemberg

Millora del barrat

Hauria de millorar-se el posicionament predeterminat de les barres de corxera (i figures menors) normals, de pentagrama creuat, interrompudes i en angle. El barrat hauria de dependre del context i de les notes veïnes (vegeu la secció 2.2). Si és possible, reduir el temps de càlcul del barrat.

Dificultat: mitjana

Requisits: C++, experiència amb heurística de l’escriptura

Coneixements recomanats: sentit estètic

Mentor(s): Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen

Neteja de diversos advertiments de compilació

Neteja dels advertiments de compilació, anàlisi estàtica del codi, i advertiments del valgrind. Les eines d’anàlisi automàtica del codi (advertiments de g++ i clang) i eines d’anàlisi com ara la detecció de filtracions de memòria dels perfiladors de codi valgrind i callgrind aporten informació valuosa sobre possibles problemes en el codi de C++. La neteja d’aquests advertiments ens permetria rebutjar automàticament qualsevol pegat que introduís més advertiments dels que hi ha actualment.

Dificultat: mitjana

Requisits: C++

Mentor(s): Joe Neeman, Reinhold Kainhofer

Autors

Equip de desenvolupament actual

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

Càrrecs de l’equip del desenvolupament anterior

Jean Abou Samra: jean@abou-samra.fr, https://jean.abou-samra.fr, Factotum
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

Col·laboradors actuals

Programació

Martín Rincón Botero, Amir Czwink, Jiří Hon, Masamichi Hosoda, Thomas Morley, Lukas-Fabian Moser, Benkő Pál, Mark Polesky, Alen Šiljak, Kim Shrier, Christoph Wagner, John Wheeler, Jason Yip, David Zelinsky

Font tipogràfica

Documentació

Federico Bruni, Amir Czwink, Felix Janda, Thomas Morley, Paolo Prete, David Zelinsky

Traducció

Walter Garcia-Fontes, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Gon Solo

Col·laboradors anteriors

Programació

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, Martín Rincón Botero, Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Tim Burgess, Nathan Chou, Juliusz Chroboczek, Peter Chubb, Angelo Contardi, Thibaut Cuvelier, Vicente Solsona Della, Hajo Dezelski, Michael Welsh Duggan, Hassan Elfatihi, Jefferson Felix, 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, Jordan Henderson, Karlin High, Christian Hitz, Karin Hoethker, Rutger Hofmann, Marc Hohl, Masamichi Hosoda, Bernard Hurley, Yoshinobu Ishizaki, Chris Jackson, Felix Janda, David Jedlinsky, Nihal Jere, Martin Joerg, Heikki Junes, Michael Käppler, Doug Kearns, 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, Valentin Petzel, 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, Pete Siddall, Alen Šiljak, Edward Sanford Sutton, Adam Spiers, Tim Starling, David Svoboda, Samuel Tam, Simon Tatham, Heikki Taurainen, Timofey, Piers Titus van der Torren, Owen Tuz, Sebastiano Vigna, Jan-Peter Voigt, Arno Waschk, Nathan Whetsell, Bernhard M. Wiedemann, John Williams, Andrew Wilson, Jaap de Wolff, Milan Zamazal, Rune Zedeler, Boris-Chengbiao Zhou, Rodolfo Zitellini

Font tipogràfica

Jay Anderson, Tom Cato Amundsen, Johannes Feulner, David Stephen Grant, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl, Masamichi Hosoda, Chris Jackson, Alexander Kobel, Owen Lamb, Daniel Benjamin Miller, Abraham Lee, Keith OHara, Carsten Steger, Arno Waschk, Rune Zedeler

Documentació

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, Daniel Tobias Johansen Langhoff, 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, John Wheeler, Rune Zedeler, Rodolfo Zitellini

Esquadró de fallades

Simon Albrecht, James E. Bailey, Federico Bruni, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Derek Klinge, Marek Klein, Urs Liska, Kieren MacMillan, Ralph Palmer, Dmytro O. Redchuk

Suport

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

Traducció

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, Guyutongxue, Dénes Harmath, Damien Heurtebise, Masamichi Hosoda, Bjoern Jacke, Matthieu Jacquot, Neil Jerram, Heikki Junes, Nicolas Klutchnikoff, Chengrui Li, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Adrian Mariano, Christian Mondrup, Tineke de Munnik, Steven Michael Murphy, Till Paala, Benkő Pál, 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

Publicacions

El que nosaltres hem escrit sobre el LilyPond

Server Acim. GNU/LilyPond (Turkish Language). 2013. (PDF 2100k).
Graham Percival. Sustainability in F/OSS: developers as a non-renewable resource. In Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2010 (RMLL2010), 2010. (PDF 333k).
Han Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen. LilyPond, a system for automated music engraving. In Colloquium on Musical Informatics (XIV CIM 2003), May 2003. (PDF 95k).
Han Wen Nienhuys. LilyPond, Automated music formatting and the Art of Shipping. In Forum Internacional Software Livre 2006 (FISL7.0), 2006. (PDF 1095k).
Margarethe Maierhofer Lischka & Florian Hollerweger. Lilypond: music notation for everyone!. In Linux Audio Conference 2013 (LAC2013), 2013. (PDF 890k).
Reinhold Kainhofer. OrchestralLily: A Package for Professional Music Publishing with LilyPond and LATEX. In The Linux Audio Conference 2010 (LAC2010), 2010. (PDF 767k).
Erik Sandberg. Separating input language and formatter in GNU LilyPond. Master’s thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology, March 2006. (PDF 750k).
Francisco Vila. Tipografía musical para la educación y análisis de la dinámica del software libre (Spanish language). PhD thesis, Universidad de Extremadura, 2015. (PDF 20M).

El que uns altres han fet amb el LilyPond

Kevin C. Baird. Real-time generation of music notation via audience interaction using python and GNU LilyPond. In New Interfaces for Music Expression, May 2005.
Alexandre Tachard Passos, Marcos Sampaio, Pedro Kröger, and Givaldo de Cidra. Functional Harmonic Analysis and Computational Musicology in Rameau. In Proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, pages 207–210, 2009.
Graham Percival, Tosten Anders, and George Tzanetakis. Generating Targeted Rhythmic Exercises for Music Students with Constraint Satisfaction Programming. In International Computer Music Conference, 2008.
Alberto Simões, Anália Lourenço, and José João Almeida. (J. Neves et al., editor). Using Text Mining Techniques for Classical Music Scores Analysis. In New Trends in Artificial Intelligence, 2007.

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Notícies antigues

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LilyPond 2.25.21 released October 27, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.21. 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 2.24.4, the current stable release.

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.

Golfes

Anuncis

Anuncis i notícies per versió: v2.16, v2.14, v2.12, v2.10, v2.8, v2.6, v2.4, v2.2, v2.0, v1.2, v1.0, v0.1

Llista descriptiva dels canvis per versió: 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

Agraïments

Gràcies als desenvolupadors, col·laboradors, i caçadors de fallades i aportadors de suggeriments per v2.16, v2.14, v2.12, v2.10, v2.8, v2.6, v2.4, v2.2, v2.0, v1.8

Registres de canvis

Registres de canvis dels desenvolupadors, per versió: 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

LilyPond 2.25.20 released September 29, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.20. 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 2.24.4, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.19 released August 24, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.19. 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 2.24.4, the current stable release.

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.

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 Informes de fallades.

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.

The LilyPond Report #28. November 12, 2012

The October issue of the LilyPond Report focuses on the meeting of LilyPond developers and users in Waltrop, Germany last August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that venue.

There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup whose work on LilyPond is solely paid for by financial contributions from other developer and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from a web-based music typesetting service using LilyPond internally.

Come read LilyPond Report 28 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

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 Informes de fallades.

New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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 Desenvolupament.

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 Informes de fallades.

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!

Alpha test two of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.35 released! Sep 29, 2010

LilyPond 2.13.35 is out; this is the second 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 Desenvolupament.

Three known regressions against 2.12.3 still exist: Issue 1173 MetronomeMarks cannot be aligned on a note if a multi-measure rest exists in another voice, and two spacing bugs: Issue 1240 and Issue 1252. If you decide to test 2.13.35, do not be surprised to discover problems; just send us polite Informes de fallades.

Alpha test of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.34 released! Sep 21, 2010

LilyPond 2.13.34 is out; this is the first 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 Desenvolupament.

One known regression against 2.12.3 still exist: Issue 1173 MetronomeMarks cannot be aligned on a note if a multi-measure rest exists in another voice, but we expect to find more. If you decide to test 2.13.34, do not be surprised to discover problems; just send us polite Informes de fallades.

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 Contacte.

Nota: 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.
Canvis, Desenvolupament.

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 2.12.0 “Rune” — December 27, 2008

A new stable release of LilyPond is available.
Announcement, Canvis, Download.

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, Canvis, 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.
Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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.
Canvis, 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.
Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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 Contacte) 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, Canvis, 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 2.10.33 and 2.11.33 available. September 20, 2007

Release 2.11.33 is now available.
Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.32 available. September 2, 2007

Release 2.11.32 is now available.
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.

LilyPond 2.10.23 and 2.11.23 available - May 1, 2007

This has lots of bugfixes.
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 Canvis online und Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.22 available - April 10, 2007

This release has updates of the dot collision code.
Bugfixes, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.21 available - March 24, 2007

This release has some documentation updates.
Bugfixes, Canvis, 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 2.10.20 and 2.11.20 available - February 25, 2007

This release fixes many bugs.
Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.19 and 2.11.19 available - February 18, 2007

This release fixes many bugs.
Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Canvis, Old downloads.

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, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.17 available - February 9, 2007

This release fixes still more bugs.
Bugfixes, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.16 and 2.11.16 available - February 4, 2007

This release fixes many bugs. (Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.11 available - January 12, 2007

This release mostly has the same fixes as 2.11.11.
Bugfixes, Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.8 and 2.10.8 available - January 3, 2007

New! Improved! With even more bugfixes!
Bugfixes, Canvis, 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 2.11.7 and 2.10.7 available - January 1, 2007

New! Improved! With even more bugfixes!
Bugfixes, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.6 available - December 30, 2006

This release supports arbitrary fractional alterations, allowing music with different microtonal conventions to be typeset.
Bugfixes, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.6 available - December 30, 2006

New! Improved! With even more bugfixes!
Bugfixes, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.5 available - December 24, 2006

These releases complete the translation infrastructure for Documentation.
Bugfixes, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.5 available - December 24, 2006

New! Improved! With even more bugfixes!
Bugfixes, Canvis, 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, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.3 available - December 19, 2006

This release has graphical test results and several website build improvements.
Bugfixes, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.3 available - December 19, 2006

This release fixes several bugs.
Bugfixes, 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 2.11.2 available - December 12, 2006

This release supports glissandi and harmonics in tablature.
Bugfixes, Canvis, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.2 available - December 12, 2006

A new stable release of LilyPond is available.
Bugfixes, Old downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.1 available - December 4, 2006

This release has improved support for horizontal spacing.
Bugfixes, Canvis, 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. (Canvis, Old downloads)

LilyPond 2.10.0 available - November 11, 2006

A new stable release of LilyPond is available. (Announcement, Canvis, 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, Canvis, 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 (Publicacions).

LilyPond 2.9.26 available - October 20, 2006

This release has further bugfixes.
Bugfixes, Old downloads.

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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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 (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, Old downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.10 available - June 15, 2006

This releases fixes a couple of bugs in 2.9.9. (Canvis, Old downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.9 available - June 15, 2006

This releases fixes many bugs in 2.9.8 and earlier. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, Old downloads)

New essay pages! - May 22, 2006

The Automated Engraving essay has been updated with material from the FISL talk, with pages on modeling notation and algorithms for esthetics. Happy reading!

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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, Old downloads)

FISL7.0 slides available - April 22, 2006

The slides for Han-Wen’s talk at FISL 7 are now online. (Publicacions)

LilyPond 2.8.1 is out! - April 3, 2006

Important bugfixes include CJK font handling and a Darwin/x86 port. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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 2.8.0 is out! - March 22, 2006

Version 2.8 is here! Read the release announcement. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, Old downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.37 is out - March 4, 2006

This release has more bug fixes. Please help us by testing it! (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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). (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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). (Canvis, 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! (Canvis, 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). (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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.

(Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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). (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, Old downloads)

LilyPond 2.6.4 is out - October 11, 2005

This release fixes a few minor problems with the stable series. (Canvis, 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). (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, Old downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.9 is out - September 5, 2005

This is mainly a bugfix release. (Canvis, Old downloads)

Traduction française du site - September 03, 2005

Grâce à l’équipe des traducteurs, de nombreuses pages du site sont maintenant disponibles en français, notamment l’essai sur la gravure musicale.

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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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, Canvis)

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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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. (Canvis, 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis and Old downloads.

March 14, 2004

The linuxmusician.com interview made the slashdot frontpage!.

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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis.

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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis. 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis and download here.

October 11, 2003

LilyPond 2.1.0 released. See the Canvis 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 Canvis 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 Canvis and download here.

September 23, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.9 is released. This is the second LilyPond 2.0 prerelease. Check the Canvis and download here.

September 19, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.8 is released. This is the first LilyPond 2.0 prerelease. Check the Canvis 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 Canvis and get it here.

August 28, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.2 is released. Read the Canvis and get it here.

August 26, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.1 is released. Read the Canvis and get it here.

August 25, 2003

The LilyPond 1.9 development release is available. Read the Canvis 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 Canvis.

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 Canvis 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.

Introducció		Comenceu aquí a crear partitures musicals.
Download		Obtenir el LilyPond
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Comunitat		Poseu-vos en contacte amb altres usuaris.

Aprenentage		Aprenentatge.
Glossari		Glossari.
Monografia		Monografia.
Notació		Referència.
Utilització		Utilització.
Fragments		Fragments de codi.
FAQ		Preguntes freqüents.
Web		Web.
Canvis		Notícies.
Extensió		Programació.
Funcionament intern		Funcionament intern.
Tots		Tots els manuals.
FDL		Llicència.