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LilyPond 2.11.50 available

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Release 2.11.50 adds support for metronome marks with text, and backslashed numbers for figured bass, contributed by Reinhold Kainhofer. Bugfixes, Download.

The LilyPond Report #13

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

LilyPond 2.11.49 is out. It fixes a number of bugs, including bugs in beams formatting.
Bugfixes, Download.

LilyPond 2.11.48 released

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

LilyPond 2.11.48 is out. This release fixes a few bugs, and \compressMusic has been renamed to \scaleDurations.
Bugfixes, Download.

The LilyPond Report #11

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

LilyPond now allows all text context properties to be markups, except in \lyricmode. This release also fixes regression tests maintenance for developers. Bugfixes, Download.

LilyPond 2.11.46 available

Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Release 2.11.46 fixes a lot of bugs and includes a rewrite of dynamics engravers. Support for slur-shaped arpeggios has been added. Changes, Bugfixes, Download.

RSS feed

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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 mailing list info-lilypond is still used to announce releases and special events.

The LilyPond Report #9

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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. Changes, Bugfixes, Download.

LilyPond 2.11.44 available

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Release 2.11.44 is available. Support for figured bass and chord names has been added to the MusicXML converter. Bugfixes, Download.

lilypond.org日本語訳 (lilypond.org Japanese translation)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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, Download.

LilyPond 2.11.42 available

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Release 2.11.42 is out. It fixes some formatting and spacing bugs. (Bugfixes, Download)

Comparison of music engraving with Finale and LilyPond

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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, Download)

LilyPond 2.11.37 available

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Release 2.11.37 is available. It has a few bugfixes, and documentation changes. (Download)

LilyPond 2.11.36 available

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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, Download)