LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
LilyPond uses a versioning scheme that easily identifies stable and development releases. In a version "x.y.z", an even second number 'y' denotes a stable version. For development versions 'y' is odd.
The primary download site for sourcecode is http://lilypond.org/download/.
For compiling and running LilyPond see the installation instructions. These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond, as lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt. They are also available on the web at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.1/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/INSTALL.html.
The documentation is available online at http://www.lilypond.org/doc/.
You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under `Building documentation' in the installation instructions.
Send your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. to the mailing list, not to us personally.
We have the following mailing lists:
You can search the lists from our searching facilities.
Send bug reports to bug-lilypond@gnu.org. For help and
questions use lilypond-user@gnu.org.
This page is for LilyPond-2.10.33 (stable-branch).
1.6 Bugs