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Computer printouts of sheet music usually look dull. LilyPond is different: it makes beautiful sheet music. Give it a try!

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What sets LilyPond apart from other programs? Why did we revive the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music? How did we do it?

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LilyPond 2.12.0 “Rune”December 27, 2008
A new stable release of LilyPond is available.
Announcement, Changes, 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, Changes, Download.
LilyPond 2.11.64 - November 18, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.64 is available. MusicXML import has been improved, including church modes support, and a few bugs in the compilation and documentation building processes are fixed. The three documentation manuals are now fully translated in Spanish, thanks to Francisco Vila. The font cache problem in Windows binaries which used to cause excessive slowness should be fixed.
Changes, Download.
LilyPond 2.11.63 - October 29, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.63 is available. This release has lots of updates to the documentation and translations. Download.

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