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3.1.1 Installing Git
3.1.2 Creating a GitLab account and setting up SSH
3.1.3 Cloning and forking the repository
3.1.4 Configuring Git
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LilyPond Contributor’s Guide v2.25.23 (development-branch).
1 Introduction to contributing
1.1 Help us
1.2 Overview of work flow
1.3 Summary for experienced developers
1.4 Mentors
2 Quick start
2.1 LilyDev
Installing LilyDev in VirtualBox
Configuring LilyDev in VirtualBox
2.2 Compiling with LilyDev
2.3 Now start work!
3 Working with source code
3.1 Setting up
3.1.1 Installing Git
3.1.2 Creating a GitLab account and setting up SSH
3.1.3 Cloning and forking the repository
3.1.4 Configuring Git
3.2 Git cheat sheet
3.3 Lifecycle of a merge request
3.3.1 Uploading a patch for review
3.3.2 Automated testing
3.3.3 Patch countdown
3.3.4 Merging to master
3.3.5 Abandoned patches
3.4 Writing good commit messages
3.5 Commit access
3.6 Further Git documentation resources
3.7 Repository directory structure
4 Compiling
4.1 Overview of compiling
4.2 Requirements
4.2.1 Requirements for running LilyPond
4.2.2 Requirements for compiling LilyPond
Fedora
Linux Mint
OpenSUSE
Ubuntu
Other
4.2.3 Requirements for building documentation
4.3 Getting the source code
4.4 Configuring
make
4.4.1 Build modes
4.4.2 Running
autogen.sh
4.4.3 Running
configure
Configuration options
Checking build dependencies
Configuring target directories
4.5 Compiling LilyPond
4.5.1 Using
make
4.5.2 Saving time with the
-j
option
4.5.3 Useful
make
variables
4.6 Post-compilation options
4.6.1 Installing LilyPond from a local build
4.6.2 Generating documentation
Documentation editor’s edit/compile cycle
Building documentation
Building a single document
Saving time with
CPU_COUNT
Installing documentation
Building documentation without compiling
4.6.3 Testing LilyPond binary
4.7 Problems
4.8 Concurrent stable and development versions
4.8.1 Replacing the notation fonts in development versions
4.9 Build system
5 Documentation work
5.1 Introduction to documentation work
5.2
\version
in documentation files
5.3 Documentation suggestions
5.4 Texinfo introduction and usage policy
5.4.1 Texinfo introduction
5.4.2 Documentation files
5.4.3 Sectioning commands
5.4.4 LilyPond formatting
5.4.5 Text formatting
5.4.6 Syntax survey
Comments
Cross-references
External links
Fixed-width font
Indexing
Lists
Special characters
Miscellany
5.4.7 Other text concerns
5.5 Documentation policy
5.5.1 Books
5.5.2 Section organization
5.5.3 Checking cross-references
5.5.4 General writing
5.5.5 Technical writing style
5.6 Tips for writing documentation
5.6.1 Working on subsections
5.6.2 Searching
5.7 Scripts to ease documentation work
5.7.1 Scripts to test the documentation
Building only one section of the documentation
5.7.2 Scripts to create documentation
Regenerating menus
Updating doc with
convert-ly
5.8 Documentation strings in the Internals Reference
5.9 Translating the documentation
5.9.1 Getting started with documentation translation
Translation requirements
Which documentation can be translated
Starting translation in a new language
5.9.2 Documentation translation details
Files to be translated
Translating the website and other Texinfo documentation
Adding a Texinfo manual
5.9.3 Documentation translation maintenance
Check state of translation
Updating documentation translation
Updating translation committishes
Maintaining without updating translations
5.9.4 Technical background
6 Website work
6.1 Introduction to website work
6.2 Uploading website
6.3 Debugging website and docs locally
6.4 Translating the website
7 LSR work
7.1 Introduction to LSR
7.2 Adding and editing snippets
7.3 Approving snippets
7.4 The
makelsr.pl
script
7.5 LSR to Git
7.6 Renaming a snippet
7.7 Updating the LSR to a new version
8 Issues
8.1 Introduction to issues
8.2 Triaging bugs
8.3 Issue classification
8.4 Adding issues to the tracker
9 Regression tests
9.1 Introduction to regression tests
9.2 Precompiled regression tests
9.3 Compiling regression tests
9.4 Regtest comparison
9.5 Pixel-based regtest comparison
9.6 Finding the cause of a regression
9.7 MusicXML tests
10 Programming work
10.1 Overview of LilyPond architecture
10.2 LilyPond programming languages
10.3 Programming without compiling
10.4 Finding functions
10.5 Code style
10.5.1 Languages
10.5.2 Filenames
10.5.3 Code formatting
10.5.4 Naming Conventions
10.5.5 Broken code
10.5.6 Code comments
10.5.7 Handling errors
10.5.8 Localization
10.6 Warnings, Errors, Progress and Debug Output
10.7 Debugging LilyPond
10.7.1 Debugging overview
10.7.2 Debugging C++ code
10.7.3 Debugging Scheme code
10.7.4 Debugging scoring algorithms
10.7.5 Debugging skylines
10.8 Tracing object relationships
10.9 Tracing processing time
10.10 Adding or modifying features
10.10.1 Write the code
10.10.2 Write regression tests
10.10.3 Write convert-ly rule
10.10.4 Automatically update documentation
10.10.5 Manually update documentation
10.10.6 Edit changes.tely
10.10.7 Verify successful build
10.10.8 Verify regression tests
10.10.9 Post patch for comments
10.10.10 Push patch
10.10.11 Closing the issues
10.11 Iterator tutorial
10.12 Engraver tutorial
10.12.1 Useful methods for information processing
10.12.2 Translation process
10.12.3 Listening to music events
10.12.4 Acknowledging grobs
10.12.5 Engraver declaration/documentation
10.13 Callback tutorial
10.14 Understanding pure properties
10.14.1 Purity in LilyPond
10.14.2 Writing a pure function
10.14.3 How purity is defined and stored
10.14.4 Where purity is used
10.14.5 Case studies
10.14.6 Debugging tips
10.15 LilyPond scoping
10.16 Regular expressions
10.17 Scheme->C interface
10.17.1 Comparison
10.17.2 Conversion
10.18 Garbage collection for dummies
10.19 LilyPond miscellany
10.19.1 Spacing algorithms
10.19.2 Info from Han-Wen email
10.19.3 Music functions and Guile debugging
10.19.4 Articulations on EventChord
11 Release work
11.1 Development phases
11.2 Release checklist
11.3 Major release checklist
12 Modifying the Emmentaler font
12.1 Overview of the Emmentaler font
12.2 Font creation tools
12.3 Adding a new font section
12.4 Adding a new glyph
12.5 Building the changed font
12.6 METAFONT formatting rules
13 Administrative policies
13.1 LilyPond is GNU Software
13.2 Environment variables
13.3 Performing yearly copyright update (“grand-replace”)
Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License