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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 2.11.61 available - October 1, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.61 has been released. It has updates to documentation translations, and a new automatic accidentals style (teaching) has been added.
Bugfixes, Changes, Download.
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. Download.
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. Download.
LilyPond 2.11.58 available - September 13, 2008
LilyPond 2.11.58 is a beta release, which means the next stable release is expected in a few weeks. This release is also special, as it includes code which supports more flexible automatic accidentals rules, written several months ago by Rune Zedeler, deceased since then. All the development team express their condolences to his family and his friends. Besides this, automatic beaming has been improved by Carl Sorensen, support for creating stem flags in a new style has been contributed by Reinhold Kainhofer, and a few bugs have been fixed.
Bugfixes, Changes, Download.

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