LilyPond – Notation für jedermann

LilyPond

... Notensatz für jedermann

LilyPond ist ein Notensatzsystem. Das erklärte Ziel ist es, Notendruck in bestmöglicher Qualität zu erstellen. Mit dem Programm wird es möglich, die Ästhetik handgestochenen traditionellen Notensatzes mit computergesetzten Noten zu erreichen. LilyPond ist Freie Software und Teil des GNU-Projekts.

Lesen Sie mehr in der Einleitung!

Schöner Notensatz

LilyPond ist ein sehr mächtiges und flexibles Werkzeug, das Notensatz unterschiedlichster Art handhaben kann: zum Beispiel klassische Musik (wie in diesem Beispiel von J. S. Bach), komplexe Notation, Alte Musik, moderne Musik, Tabulatur, Vokalmusik, Popmusik, Unterrichtsmaterialien, große Orchesterpartituren, individuelle Lösungen und sogar Schenker-Graphen.

Sehen Sie sich unsere Beispiele an und lassen sich inspirieren!

Neuigkeiten

LilyPond 2.25.22 released - November 30, 2024

LilyPond 2.24.4 released - July 21, 2024

Weitere Neuigkeiten...

Einleitung

Unser Ziel

LilyPond entstand, als zwei Musiker über das tote und unbeseelte Aussehen von computererstellten Notendrucken hinausgehen wollten. Musiker wollen schöne Noten lesen, warum also sollten Programmierer kein Programm schreiben können, das schönere Orchesterstimmen setzen kann?

Das Resultat ist ein Programm, das schönen Notensatz erzeugt und dabei der Tradition und dem ganzen Erfahrungsschatz des klassischen Notensatzes folgt. Es kümmert sich programmatisch um alle Feinheiten des Layouts, damit Komponisten, Setzer und Verleger sich auf die Musik konzentrieren können. Musiker sollen sich auf das Spielen und nicht das Lesen der Musik konzentrieren.

Die Fähigkeiten von LilyPond

Eigenschaften: Was kann LilyPond?
Beispiele: Ich will Noten sehen!
Freiheit: LilyPond ist Open Source.
Hintergrund: Unsere Ästhetik des computergestützten Notensatzes.

LilyPond im Einsatz

Produktionen: Wirkliche Anwendung von LilyPond.
Rezensionen: Was sagt man über uns?

Wie LilyPond funktioniert

Texteingabe: Ihr schreibt Noten als Text?!
Leichteres Editieren: Andere Möglichkeiten, mit LilyPond zu arbeiten.

Eigenschaften

Hervorragender klassischer Notensatz

Durch die Benutzung von LilyPond erhalten Sie eleganten Notensatz, der leicht zu lesen ist. Die Entwicklergemeinschaft des Programmes hat tausende von Stunden damit verbracht, ein sehr mächtiges Notensatzprogramm zu entwickeln, dass automatisch schönen Notensatz ausgibt. Alle stilistischen Einstellungen, Schriftartendesign und Algorithmen von LilyPond wurden von den besten handgestochenen Notenbeispielen inspiriert. Die Ausgabe von LilyPond hat das gleiche kraftvolle, ausbalancierte und elegante Aussehen wie die besten gestochenen klassischen Partituren. Dazu mehr in unserem Aufsatz.

Texteingabe

Alles ist explizit

LilyPond verarbeitet Texteingaben, die alle Informationen bzgl. des Inhalts ihrer Partitur enthalten und kann leicht durch Menschen oder andere Programme gelesen werden. Es gibt keine in irgendwelchen Menus versteckten Eigenschaften und kein binäres Dateiformat.

Weitere Informationen zu diesem Konzept unter Texteingabe.

Optimierungen sind robust und nachvollziehbar

Wenn Sie irgendwelche Layoutänderungen vornehmen, so sind diese Optimierungen für jeden in der Eingabedatei sichtbar und damit sind diese Anpassungen jederzeit nachvollziehbar. Versehentlich eingefügte Fehler können so leicht rückgängig gemacht werden, ohne dabei auf die Gnade einer Undo Funktion angewiesen zu sein.

Textdateien sind wenig fehleranfällig und zukunftssicher

Textdateien sind in Bezug auf Datenverfälschung ausgesprochen robust. Dazu sind sie direkt lesbar und daher jederzeit verständlich, auch ohne die Verwendung des Programms, mit dem sie mal erzeugt wurden.

Setzen Sie Versionskontrolle zur Verwaltung ihrer Partituren ein

Textdateien eignen sich hervorragend zur Verwaltung durch ein Versionsmanagement System. Machen Sie das und erfahren unendliches und selektives Undo/Redo und erhalten die vollständige Änderungshistorie ihrer Werke. Versionskontrolle erleichtert dazu neue (kollaborative) Arbeitsweisen.

Benutzbarkeit

Effektive Layout Einstellungen

Verbringen Sie weniger Zeit damit, den Notensatz nachträglich zu optimieren; LilyPond formatiert die Noten von Anfang an richtig. Die Platzaufteilung und die richtigen Zeilen- und Seitenumbrüche werden von selber errechnet, um ein dichtes und gleichmäßiges Notenbild zu erzeugen. Zusammenstöße zwischen Gesangstext, Noten und Akkorden werden aufgelöst und alle Bögen sind automatisch richtig gekrümmt!

Kombinieren Sie Noten und Text

Sie können Notenfragmente in einen Text einfügen, ohne Bilder auszuschneiden und einzufügen. Mit LilyPond lassen sich Noten in LaTeX oder HTML nahtlos einfügen und mit OOoLilyPond auch in OpenOffice.org und LibreOffice Dokumente integrieren. Es gibt auch Plugins, mit denen LilyPond Code für verschiedene Blogs und Wikis ermöglicht wird, sodass auch eine Zusammenarbeit online möglich wird.

Barrierefreiheit

Text-basierte Eingabe ermöglicht das Schreiben von Partituren auch für Leute mit schweren physischen Behinderungen. Benutzer mit motorischen Behinderungen, die Tastatur oder Maus nicht benutzen können, können mit einem Spracherkennungsprogramm LilyPond Dateien bearbeiten. Sogar vollkommen blinde Benutzer können mit Screenreader LilyPond-Dateien erstellen – vollkommen unmöglich mit graphisch-basierten Notationsprogrammen.

Editor Vielfalt

Diverse Entwickler, selbst aktive LilyPond Anwender, haben spezielle Werkzeuge entwickelt um das Editieren von LilyPond Dateien schneller und effizienter zu gestalten; Sie sind nicht auf ein bestimmter Benutzerinterface festgelegt sondern können aus einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Werkzeuge wählen. So können sie daheim einen LilyPond Editor mit allem drum und dran verwenden und unterwegs den Minieditor ihres Mobiltelefons. Einige Beispiele finden Sie unter Leichteres Editieren.

Erweiterbares Design

Einfache Verwaltung von Formatvorlagen

Alle Layout Einstellungen an ihre persönlichen typographischen Vorstellungen angepasst werden. Sie können sehr einfach Formatvorlagen schreiben, die buchstäblich jede von LilyPond’s Voreinstellungen verändern. So erstellte Formatvorlagen sind ihrerseits wieder Textdateien und können jeweils in einer eigenen Datei abgelegt werden. Das ermöglicht ein extrem einfaches Wechseln zwischen vollkommen unterschiedlichem Notensatz einfach durch Austausch dieser Formatvorlagen. Sie möchten die Partitur auf A4 Papier drucken sowie die Noten mit einem Beamer ein System pro Seite projezieren? LilyPond’s Layout Engine erzeugt beides aus ein und derselben Eingabedatei.

Fügen Sie eigene Funktionen hinzu

Wenn das noch nicht reichen sollte, dann gibt es immer noch die eingebaute Skriptsprache Scheme. Mit ihr kann auf LilyPond’s Layout Engine in exakt der gleichen Weise zugegriffen werden, wie LilyPond es intern selbst tut. Es ist damit ein extrem mächtiges Werkzeug. Einstellungen, Variablen und Funktionen sind alle im umfangreichen Programm Referenz Handbuch dokumentiert.

Verarbeiten Sie Partituren programmgesteuert

LilyPond Eingabedateien können von externen Programmen oder Skripten editiert oder sogar in Gänze erzeugt werden. Das kann z.B. für algorithmisches Komponieren genutzt werden. Oder Sie Verarbeiten den musikalischen Inhalt zu Analysezwecke oder verwalten musikalische Fragmente in einer Datenbank. Die Möglichkeiten sind nur durch ihre Phantasie begrenzt.

Entwickeln Sie neue Werkzeuge unter Verwendung von LilyPond

LilyPond is kein monolithisches GUI Programm sondern ein Kommandozeilen Progrmm. Daher kann es auch von anderen Programmen verwendet werden. So kann z.B. eine Webanwendung mit LilyPond’s Notensatzfähikeiten erweitert werden. Tatsächlich existieren verschiedene Online Werkzeuge, die LilyPond verwenden.

Umgebung

Hervorragende Unterstützung

LilyPond gibt es für alle verbreiteten Betriebssysteme: GNU/Linux, MacOS X und Windows. LilyPond hat eine ausführliche Dokumentation und hunderte von Beispieldateien. Es gibt eine aktive Benutzergemeinschaft, die Fragen auf der LilyPond-Mailliste und in einem deutschsprachigen Forum beantwortet, während das Entwicklungsteam es ermöglicht, dass Probleme schnell gelöst werden.

Freie Software

LilyPond kann ohne jede Bezahlung heruntergeladen werden! Wirklich, es ist vollkommen frei! Holen Sie es sich von der Download-Seite.

Es handelt sich um Freie Software, welche zusammen mit dem Quellcode zur Verfügung gestellt wird – mit der Erlaubnis, zu verändern und zu kopieren. Stören Sie sich an einem Fehler oder brauchen Sie dringend eine neue Funktion? Schreiben Sie sie einfach selber, oder bezahlen Sie jemanden, der es für Sie tut.

Was jetzt?

Sie sind noch nicht überzeugt? Dann schauen Sie sich einige konkrete Beispiele an. Wenn Sie sich bereits entschlossen haben, LilyPond auszuprobieren, lesen Sie zuerst über unsere Texteingabe.

Beispiele

Beautiful examples

LilyPond ist ein sehr mächtiges und flexibles Werkzeug, das Notensatz unterschiedlichster Art handhaben kann. Sehen Sie sich unsere Beispiele an und lassen Sie sich inspirieren!

Klassische Musik

Dieses Orgelpräludium von J. S. Bach ist ein recht typisches Notensatzprojekt mit LilyPond.

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Komplexe Notation

Dieses Beispiel aus Goyescas von Enrique Granados zeigt einige der fortgeschrittenen Notensatzfunktionen, unter Anderem Balken zwischen Notenzeilen, Hälse über die Notenzeilen hinweg und Stimmfolgestriche.

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Alte Musik

LilyPond hat Unterstützung für verschiedene Notationsarten der Alten Musik, wie etwa dieser Abschnitt eines Gregorianischen Chorals.

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Moderne Musik

Zeitgenössische Komponisten werden feststellen, dass LilyPond sich sehr gut dazu eignet, außergewöhnliche Notation darzustellen. Hier ein Ausschnitt aus Čáry von Trevor Bača für Bassflöte Solo.

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Effiziente, flexible Erstellung von Aufführungsmaterial

Verschiedenes Aufführungsmaterial kann aus dem selben Quellcode erstellt werden. Hier ein Ausschnitt aus Händels Giulio Cesare, gesetzt von Nicolas Sceaux, als Partitur, Klavierauszug und eine Geigenstimme.

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Tabulatur

LilyPond unterstützt Tabulatur-Notation, die an ein beliebiges Instrument angepasst werden kann, dass Tabulatur-Notation einsetzt. Das Tabulatur-System wird automatisch anhand der Noten erstellt, die man für das fünflinige Notensystem notiert hat.

(Klick zum Vergrößern)

Vokalmusik

LilyPond eignet sich hervorragend, um Vokalmusik aller Arten zu notieren, von Hymnen bis zu einer Oper. Hier eine mittelalterliche Motette mit geringfügig speziellen Anforderungen. Die Tenorstimme ist in einer anderen Taktart als die anderen Stimmen geschrieben, wird aber an den anderen Stimmen ausgerichtet, als ob sie die gleiche Taktart hätte. LilyPond kann damit sehr elegant umgehen. Beachten Sie auch die Incipite mit Schlüsseln im Vaticana-Stil, durchgestrichene Notenhälse für plicierte Noten und Ligaturklammern über bestimmten Notengruppen.

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Popmusik

Es ist einfach, ein Liedblatt mit Melodie, Text und Akkorden sowie Griffsymbolen zu erstellen. In diesem Beispiel sind einige der vordefinierten Griffdiagramme eingesetzt, aber sie können vollständig angepasst werden, um fast jeder Situation gerecht zu werden.

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Anwendung in der Musikerziehung

LilyPond eignet sich perfekt für eine Anwendung in der Musikerziehung. Hier ein Beispiel einer einfachen Kontrapunktaufgabe.

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Große Projekte

LilyPond eignet sich großartig für große Projekte wie Opern oder Werke für großes Symphonieorchester. Zusätzlich ermöglicht die texbasierte Eingabe größere Barrierefreiheit – das folgende Beispiel wurde von Hu Haipeng, einem blinden Komponisten, zur Verfügung gestellt.

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Individuelle Ausgabe

Ein kurzer Auszug aus Stockhausen’s Klavierstück II zeigt die Fähigkeiten von LilyPond eine individuelle Ausgabe zu erzeugen.

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Schenker-Graphen

Das Standardnotenbild kann sehr stark verändert werden. Hier eine eindrucksvolle Schenker-Analyse, von Kris Schaffer mit LilyPond erstellt für einen Artikel im Linux Journal. Die Farben wurden zur Verdeutlichung hinzugefügt.

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Was jetzt?

Noch immer nicht überzeugt? LilyPond ist Open Source und garantiert Ihnen Freiheit. Wenn Sie sich schon entschlossen haben, LilyPond auszuprobieren, lesen zuerst über unsere Texteingabe.

Freiheit

Freie Software

GNU LilyPond wird von einer Gemeinschaft von Enthusiasten geschrieben und unterhalten. Es wird unter der GNU General Public License und der GNU Free Documentation License herausgegeben, sodass jeder die Freiheit hat, Fehler zu verbessern, das Programm zu ändern oder zu erweitern. Es sollte nicht hunderte Euro kosten, ein Programm zum erstellen schönen Notensatzes zu erwerben.

Was für einen Nutzen haben die Anwender?

Keine Kosten: Laden Sie das Programm und probieren Sie es. Was haben Sie zu verlieren?
Teilen: wenn Sie das Programm gut finden, können Sie Ihren Freunden, Lehrern, Studenten oder Kollegen eine Kopie weitergeben!
Quellcode vorhanden: wenn es Sie interessiert, wie LilyPond eine bestimmte Notation erstellt, können Sie genau verfolgen, wie das Programm vor sich geht.
Erweiterbar: Sie können Eigenschaften hinzufügen, Fehler verbessern und die Funktionalität ändern. Wenn Sie kein Programmierer sind, können Sie jemanden anstellen, der diese Aufgabe für Sie übernimmt.
Das wird sich vielleicht für den gelegentlichen Musiker nicht nach einem Vorteil anhören, aber die Möglichkeit, ein Programm zu erweitern kann sich als sehr wertvoll für ernsthafte Komponisten, Notenverlage und Wissenschaftler erweisen.
Sicherheit für die Zukunft: Wenn eine Firma bankrott geht, was geschieht dann mit den elektronischen Noten, die von ihren Programmen abhängen? Diese Sorge brauchen Sie nicht mit LilyPond haben: auch wenn das gesamte Entwicklerteam auf einmal aufhören würde (was sehr unwahrscheinlich ist), gibt es das Programm doch immer noch legal im Internet, um es weiterzubenutzen, zu verändern oder zu kopieren.

Warum „geben“ die Entwickler von LilyPond ihre Arbeit umsonst her?

Die meisten sehen die Entwicklungsarbeit an LilyPond als ein Hobby oder freiwillige Arbeit. Man müsste also eigentlich fragen: „Warum machen Leute etwas freiwillig“?

Spaß: auf ein Ziel hinzuarbeiten kann sehr begeistern, besonders wenn man im Team arbeiten kann.
Die gleichen Ziele: wir alle wollen schön gesetzte Noten, aber nur wenige Leute haben Fähigkeiten (und niemand die Zeit), um ein Programm zu schreiben, dass alle Situationen meistern kann. Aber indem wir zusammen arbeiten – einer verbessert die Form der Bögen, ein anderer verbessert den Code für die automatischen Balken und ein dritter schreibt die Dokumentation, wie diese Eigenschaften genutzt werden können – können wir unser Ziel erreichen, sodass jeder nur einen Bruchteil der Zeit aufbringt, die ein einzelner bräuchte.
„Geschenkkultur“: Die Free Software (oder „Open Source“) Bewegung hat viele großartige Programme hervorgebracht, wie etwa GNU/Linux, Mozilla Firefox und Battle for Wesnoth. Als Dank für den Nutzen, den sie von solchen Projekten erhalten haben, wollen manche Entwickler der Gemeinschaft „etwas zurück geben“.
Arbeitserfahrung: zu einem freien Softwareprojekt beizutragen ist eine gute Weise, sich im Programmieren, Schreiben und Übersetzen von Dokumentation oder Design zu üben. Diese Übung hat einigen Entwicklern geholfen, Arbeitsangebote oder Stipendien zu erhalten.

Was jetzt?

Noch immer nicht überzeugt? Lesen Sie unseren ausführlichen Aufsatz über unsere Notensatzphilosophie in Hintergrund. Wenn Sie sich schon entschlossen haben, LilyPond auszuprobieren, lesen zuerst über unsere Texteingabe.

Hintergrund

Aufsatz zu den Hintergründen

Wir haben einen ausführlichen Aufsatz geschrieben, der die Computerästhetik beschreibt: die Kunst, Schönheit mit dem Computer zu erstellen.

Darin beschreiben wir ausführlich unsere grundlegenden Ideen. Wegen seines Umfangs liegt er als eigenständiges ‚Handbuch‘ vor. Wenn Sie ihn jetzt lesen wollen, gehen sie zu Aufsatz. Wenn Sie indessen lediglich an einer kurzen Einführung in LilyPond interessiert sein sollten, dann können sie das auch auf später verschieben.

Was jetzt?

Noch immer nicht überzeugt? Lesen Sie über einige der Produktionen unserer Benutzer und schauen Sie sich die Noten an. Wenn Sie sich schon entschlossen haben, LilyPond auszuprobieren, lesen zuerst über unsere Texteingabe.

Produktionen

Produktionen die LilyPond verwenden

Hier lesen Sie von Leuten, die LilyPond in ihren realen Produktionen einsetzen, sei es für Aufführungen ihrer Musik oder zur Erzeugung der druckreifen Veröffentlichungen. Die Liste ist beschränkt auf Arbeiten, die urheberrechtlich nicht geschützt oder unter offenen Lizenzen veröffentlicht sind.

Auftritte und Konzerte

LilyPond-Notensatz wurde für verschiedene Aufführungen rund um die Welt eingesetzt. Einige Highlights:

Marc Hohl hat musikalische Stücke für Kinder und Heranwachsende geschrieben. Gesetzt mit LilyPond (und LaTeX) und kostenfrei verfügbar von https://www.singspielschmiede.de/, alle Stücke wurden an der Schule aufgeführt, an der Marc arbeitet.
Aurélien Bello hat Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier für vier Sänger und dreizehnstimmiges Kammerorchester arrangiert. Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Auftragsarbeit der Berliner Philharmoniker, deren Mitglieder dieses Werk am 2. und 6. April 2015 im Festspielhaus Baden-Baden sowie am 26.April 2015 in der Philharmonie (großer Saal) Berlin zur Auführung brachten. Wir sind hocherfreut. daß derart hochrangige Musiker aus mit LilyPond gesetzten Noten spielen – uns wurde berichtet, sie sind mit den Noten sehr zufrieden.
Aurélien hat ebenfalls Der Ring des Nibelungen von Richard Wagner zu einer 100-minütigen Fassung für Kinder. neu orchestriert. Geschrieben für ein Standard Sinfonie Orchester jedoch mit verkleinertem Sängerensemble wurde das Werk vom Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin im April 2014 im Atze Musiktheater Berlin aufgeführt. Der Dirigent war Heiko Matthias Förster.

Eine weitere Neu-Orchestrierung von Aurélien war Mussorgsky’s Bilder einer Ausstellung welche er auch dirigierte für die Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg im Jahr 2011 und nochmals 2012.
Joe Smeets hat die Noten für das Kinderbuch Zing Mee (Sing’ mit) von Annie M.G., erschienen bei Querido – ISBN 9789045106205: www.queridokinderenjeugdboeken.nl gesetzt; Chornoten für die Holländische Übersetzung von Benjamin Britten’s Saint Nicolas, aufgeführt vom Muziektheater Hollands Diep in 2011; www.muziektheaterhollandsdiep.nl. Er hat ebenfalls die Partitur und Einzelstimmen für ein Arrangement von Mussorgsks Boris Godunov für Bläserquartett, Klavier und Schlagzeug verfasst. Es wurde ebenfalls durch das Muziektheater Hollands Diep in 2014 aufgeführt.
Joe hat auch die Chorprobenpartituren für die niederländische Übersetzung von Benjamin Brittens Saint Nicolas geschrieben, welche 2011 vom Muziektheater Hollands Diep aufgeführt wurde, siehe www.muziektheaterhollandsdiep.nl.
Luca Rossetto Casel, verfasste für seine Doktorarbeit eine kritische Fassung von Tommaso Traettas Enea nel Lazio (1760), Opernzyklus in vier Teilen, Libretto von Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi: Teil Eins Teil Zwei Teil Drei Teil Vier
Kieren MacMillan, Komponist und Musikdirektor von vielen Werken; Go Thy Way, aufgeführt von den Salt Lake Choral Artists im Jahr 2012; die Just Out of Reach Suite, aufgeführt vom Chrysalis Duo; und thrafsmata im Jahr 2011 aufgeführt vom Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
Mike Solomon war der Gewinner von 172 Kompositionen aus 22 Ländern für den 2011 Left Coast Composition Contest mit seinem Werk Anonymous Student Compliment or Complaint.
Andere Werke von Mike beinhalten Norman (age 1) für Soloklarinette, aufgeführt auf dem Electroacoustic Music Festival (FEMF) der University of Florida im Oktober 2010.
Thomas Griffin, Musikwissenschaftler (Rom, Italien), bearbeitete eine moderne Edition der Serenata Erminia von Alessandro Scarlatti. Aufgeführt im Jahr 2010 in der Gallerie des Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano in Neapel, Italien, zur Feier des 350. Geburtstages des Komponisten. Siehe http://www.ascarlatti2010.net.
Nicolas Sceaux setzte das Werk von Lullys Armide, aufgeführt im Jahr 2009 von Mercury Baroque.
Nicolas setzte außerdem instrumentale Ausschnitte von Rameaus Hippolyte et Aricie, aufgeführt von Frederick Renz und seinem Ensemble in der St. James Church in Manhattan im Jahr 2009. Siehe Early Music New York
Valentin Villenave setzte ein Libretto aus Affaire étrangère, eine Oper von Lewis Trondheim, uraufgeführt im Jahr 2009 in der Opéra National de Montpellier.

Publizierte Noten

Notenbibliotheken

Mutopia-Projekt, mit über 2000 Stücken klassischer Musik zum freien Download, ist die beste Werbung für LilyPond. Jedes Stück kommt mit Quelldateien für LilyPond, zum Lernen von anderen Setzern und für eigene Editionen.
baroquemusic.it, gestartet in 2005, sammelt über 800 Stücke von Barockmusik. Das Archiv enthält Partituren, Einzelstimmen und MIDI-Dateien, bereitgestellt unter einer Creative Commons Lizenz und verfügbar nur für Abonnenten.
Partitura Organum ist eine wachsende Sammlung von Orgelstücken ohne Urheberschutz, gesetzt mit LilyPond und bereitgestellt unter einer Creative Commons Lizenz.
Clairnote bietet freie Musiknoten in Clairnote-Notation. Clairnote ist ein alternatives Notationssystem mit dem Ziel, Lesen und Verständnis von Musik zu vereinfachen. Die Partituren auf der Webseite sind aus Mutopia und anderen Onlinequellen entnommen und dann in Clairnotes eigene Notation umgewandelt worden.

Quellen für Notensatz

Mutopia-Projekt repository: Quelldateien für alle Stücke in der Mutopia-Bibliothek.
LilyPond Webseiten-Beispiele: Quelldateien für die Beispielgallerie in Beispiele.
Nicolas Sceaux: Noten für Barockmusik gesetzt mit LilyPond von einem der Entwickler.

Sollten Sie hier die Erwähnung von Konzerten oder Noten vermissen, dann teilen Sie uns dies bitte mit indem Sie eine Nachricht an die bug-lilypond Mailingliste schicken. Falls Sie diese Mailingliste noch nicht abonniert haben, können Sie das auf dieser Seite ändern: info page.

Was jetzt?

Immer noch nicht überzeugt? Lesen Sie einige der Rezensionen unserer Benutzer. Wenn Sie sich schon entschlossen haben, LilyPond auszuprobieren, lesen zuerst über unsere Texteingabe.

Rezensionen

Was sagen Andere über LilyPond?

Publizierte Artikel

April 2011
Linux Magazine publiziert einen Atikel mit dem Titel Projects on the Move. Es es eine Einleitung zu MuseScore, LilyPond and Chordii. Die Authorin Carla Schroder schreibt „LilyPond wird von der Kommandozeile aus gesteuert, aber lassen Sie sich nicht davon abschrecken, dass es keine graphische Oberfläche gibt: LilyPond ist benutzerfreundlich und leicht zu erlernen“ und zeigt einige praktische Beispiele.
Mai 2010
Peter Kirn publiziert auf der Create Digital Music-Webseite einen LilyPond-Test. Er nimmt einen gerechten Standpunkt in Bezug auf die Benutzbarkeit ein, lobt die hohe Qualität des LilyPond-Notensatzes und fordert dazu aus, das Programm einmal auszuprobieren.
September 2009
Die deutsche LinuxUser-Zeitschrift schrieb einen Artikel über LilyPond.
August 2009
Ann Drinan präsentiert auf der Polyphonic.org-Webseite Kommentare von zwei Orchsterbibliothekaren, die sich über die Benutzung von Software zur Unterhaltung ihrer Bibliotheken unterhalten.
June 2009
In einem Artikel in der Jahreszeitschrift der National Conservatory Parent Association erklärt der französischer Komponist und LilyPond-Mitarbeiter Valentin Villenave wie freie Lizenzen und insbesondere mit LilyPond gesetzte Partituren dazu beitragen, dass notierte Musik allen zugänglich gemacht wird.
Februar 2008
In Artikeln auf seiner Homepage vergleicht Andrew Hawryluk Finale und LilyPond generell und ermittelt detailliert die Notensatzfähigkeiten beider Programme. Der zweite Artikel ist eine informative Analyse des Notensatzes von Rachmaninoffs Klavierprelude 6, mit einem Vergleich einer handgestochenen Edition.
Juni 2006
DistroWatch erteilt LilyPond einen Preis und schreibt writes „Ladies and Gentleman, we are pleased to announce that, based on readers’ requests, the DistroWatch May 2006 donation has been awarded to LilyPond (€ 190.00) and Lua (US$250.00).“
Dezember 2005
Linux Journal veröffentlicht einen Artikel unter dem Titel Make Stunning Schenker Graphs with GNU LilyPond. Es handelt sich um einen tiefgehenden, aber sehr praktischen Artikel mit gestochen scharfen LilyPond-Graphiken. Der Autor Kris Shaffer merkt an: »GNU LilyPond erstellt schöne Graphik, die kommerzielle Alternativen als zweite Wahl erscheinen lassen.«
20. August, 2005
Die belgische Zeitung De Standaard untersucht, was die Autoren von Freier Software antreibt in dem Artikel Delen van KENNIS zonder WINSTBEJAG (Non-profit-Teilen von Wissen) in ihrer ‘DS2 bijlage’. LilyPond wird als Beispiel benutzt und der Artikel ist unterteilt durch Auszüge aus einem E-Mail-Interview mit Jan Nieuwenhuizen. Hiermit erscheint LilyPond gleichzeitig das erste Mal in der großen gedruckten Presse.
Juni 2005
Ein französischer Artikel über LilyPond Version 2.6 erscheint auf linuxfr.org.
Oktober 2004
Die Redakteure von Computer!Totaal, einer holländischen Computerzeitschrift, beschreiben LilyPond in der Ausgabe Oktober 2004 als: „Wunderbare freie (Open Source) Software […] Die Partituren von LilyPond sind ausnahmslos schön […] ein sehr mächtiges System das fast alles tun kann.“
Juli, August 2004
Dave Phillips schrieb einen Einleitungsartikel für das Linux Journal: At the sounding edge: LilyPond, Teil eins und zwei.
März 2004
Chris Cannam interviewte Han-Wen Nienhuys und Jan Nieuwenhuizen auf linuxmusician.com (ursprüngliche Seite funktioniert nicht mehr). Das Interview wurde auch in einer slashdot Story besprochen.
Februar 2004
Der Jazz-Sänger Gail Selkirk schreibt über Diving into LilyPond. „… man kann Liedblätter oder volle Orchsterpartituren erstellen, und das Ergebnis kann einen erstaunen.“ Computer Music Special, Nummer CMS06.

Empfehlungen von Benutzern

Carter Brey, Erstes Cello, New York Philharmonic

„… Ich habe einige Zugabestücke für Solo-Cello geschrieben und mit LilyPond gedruckt. Sie sollen bei Schirmer herausgegeben werden. Ich bin mir sicher, dass ihre eigene Version nicht halb so scharf gestochen ist wie meine!“

Orm Finnendahl, Kompositionsprofessor, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main

„Auch wenn ich [LilyPond] noch nicht sehr gut kenne, bin ich schon außerordentlich beeindruckt. Ich habe das Programm benutzt, um eine Motette von Josquin Desprez in Mensuralnotation zu notieren. Es steht außer Frage, dass LilyPond in der Geschwindigkeit, Einfachheit in der Benutzung und Notensatz alle anderen Notationsprogramme leicht überholt.“

Darius Blasband, Komponist (Brüssel, Belgien)

„[Nach der ersten Orchesterprobe] wurde die Qualität meiner Notenblätter immer wieder gelobt. Und das, obwohl ich keine der vielen Möglichkeiten in Anspruch genommen hatte, den Satz zu verbessern. Was ich dem Orchester ausgeteilt habe, war im Grunde die rohe, unveränderte LilyPond-Version.“

Kieren MacMillan, Komponist (Toronto, Kanada)

„Anerkennung und Dank an das Entwicklungsteam für ihre unglaubliche Arbeit. Ich habe noch nie etwas gesehen, das dem Satz nahekommt, den ich mit LilyPond erhalte. Ich bin vollkommen überzeugt, dass meine Publikationsanforderungen über alle Erwartungen erfüllt werden, da ich dieses Programm verwenden kann. […] sozusagen unveränderter Notensatz von LilyPond […] sieht besser aus als alle ‚professionellen‘ Publikationen der letzten Zeit, mit denen ich ihn verglichen habe (so ungefähr alle Warner Bros.-Noten und sogar viele der ‚traditionellen Notenhäuser‘). […] “

„Das sollen erstmal Finale/Sibelius/Igor/usw. erreichen!!!!“

Chris Cannam, Chefprogrammierer des RoseGarden-Projekts

„LilyPond ist offensichtlich der Super-Gorilla [des Notensatzes].“

Chris Snyder, Adoro Music Publishing

„Die Art, in der die Noten mit LilyPond eingegeben werden, lässt mich musikalischer denken – es gab Zeiten, wenn ich vergeblich versucht habe, LilyPond zu erklären, wie etwas in Noten gesetzt werden soll, nur um festzustellen, dass, auch wenn ich es genauso hinkriegen würde, wie der Komponist es wollte, die Noten trotzdem sehr unklar zum Lesen sein würden. LilyPond macht es für mich sehr viel einfacherer, in meiner Doppelrolle als Editor und Notensetzer zu arbeiten.“

„Ich habe LilyPond ausschließlich für meine startende Notendruckfirma benutzt. So gut wie ohne Ausnahme waren alle Komponisten hingerissen von der Qualität des Notensatzes, wenn ich ihnen die Korrekturfahnen ihrer Musik gezeigt habe. Ich verdiene selber auch einen Teil dieses Lobes, denn ich habe viel Zeit damit verbracht, die Ausgabe zu verändern, insbesondere die Bindebögen von Akkorden – aber LilyPond gibt einen wunderbaren Punkt zum Beginnen, eine sehr intuitive Schnittstelle und die Möglichkeit, absolut alles zu verändern, wenn ich mir nur die Zeit nehme. Ich bin überzeugt, dass kein kommerzielles Produkt dem auch nur nahe kommen kann.“

David Bobroff, Bassposaunist, Iceland Symphonieorchester

„Ich finde LilyPond einfach toll […] Je mehr ich darüber lerne, desto mehr mag ich es!“

Vaylor Trucks, E-Gitarrenspieler (Ja, verwandt mit)

„Ich bin total beeindruckt von LilyPond […]“

„DAS IST DAS BESTE PROGRAMM ALLER ZEITEN!!!“

„Vielen, vielen Dank an euch alle für die harte Arbeit und die Hingabe!“

Nicolas Sceaux, Mutopia-Mitarbeiter

„Ich hatte so eine Hassliebe zu ihm entwickelt. Liebe, weil das erste Notenblatt, das ich gesehen hatte, so gut aussah. Die Beschreibung lügt, wenn es um die Schönheit von LilyPond geht – das ist viel zu bescheiden! […] da LilyPond immer besser wird und ich mich mehr damit auseinander setze, wie Sachen in Scheme gemacht werden, habe ich viel weniger Frustrationen. Auf jeden Fall wollte ich sagen: Danke, dass ihr LilyPond anbietet, es ist wirklich toll!“

Werner Lemberg, Dirigent am Koblenzer Theater und herausragender GNU-Hacker

„Überhaupt macht LilyPond saubere Arbeit!“

Paul Davis, Entwickler von JACK und Ardour

„Ich finde, [LilyPond ist] ein außerordentliches Programm, und es erreicht wunderschöne Ergebnisse. Als ich im letzten Jahr ein Interview darüber gelesen habe, habe ich verschiedenen Freunden über sein Potential gepredigt.“

Dr. Mika Kuuskankare, Forscher an der Sibelius-Akademie Finnland, Komponist

und Autor des Expressive Notation Package (ENP)

„Ich habe eine große Achtung vor LilyPond und denen, die es geschrieben haben, denn ich weiß aus eigener Erfarhung, wie schwierig solch ein Programm sein kann.“

David Cameron, Musiker,

professioneller Notensetzer und lange Zeit Score-Benutzer

„Den allergrößten Dank an alle, die zu diesem Projekt beitragen. Ich habe SCORE für einen großen Musikverlag in den 90er Jahren sehr intensiv benutzt, aber jetzt sehe ich, dass LilyPond es mir endlich ermöglicht, genau das Aussehen des Notendrucks zu erreichen, das ich will, besonders wenn es sich nicht um "Standardlösungen" handelt.“

Sollten Sie hier die Erwähnung von news articles or testimonals vermissen, dann teilen Sie uns dies bitte mit indem Sie eine Nachricht an die bug-lilypond Mailingliste schicken. Falls Sie diese Mailingliste noch nicht abonniert haben, können Sie das auf dieser Seite ändern: info page.

Was jetzt?

Lesen Sie über unsere Texteingabe.

Texteingabe

Musik „kompilieren“

(Klick zum Vergrößern)

LilyPond ist ein kompiliertes System: es wird über eine Text-Datei gestartet, die die Noten beschreibt. Die resultierende Ausgabe wird am Bildschirm betrachtet oder ausgedruckt. In einer bestimmten Beziehung ist LilyPond eher eine Programmsprache als ein graphisches Notensatzprogramm.

Man schreibt die Noten nicht, indem man Notensymbole von einer graphischen Leiste zieht und auf einem sich dynamisch immer wieder erneuernden Notensystem platziert. Anstatt dessen schreibt man Text. Dieser Text wird von LilyPond interpretiert (oder „kompiliert“) und dabei schön aussehender Notensatz produziert.

Leute, die an das graphische Notensetzen gewöhnt sind, können eine Weile brauchen, um die neue Arbeitsweise zu lernen, aber das Resultat macht den Aufwand wett.

Achtung: Wir zeigen einen kurzen Überblick über unsere Texteingabe – es ist nicht so kompliziert, wie es sich anhört. Machen Sie sich keine Sorge, wenn Sie nicht jedes Detail der Beispiele verstehen. In unserer Dokumentation für Anfänger werden alle Einzelheiten sehr viel ausführlicher behandelt.

Es ist so einfach wie A B C

Noten werden durch Buchstaben und Zahlen kodiert. Besondere Kommandos werden mit einem Backslash eingegeben.

Versetzungszeichen werden durch verschiedene Endungen hinzugefügt: -is nach der Note setzt ein Kreuz, -es dagegen ein b (– das sind die deutschen Endungen, Endungen in anderen Sprachen sind auch möglich). LilyPond entscheidet selber, wo es die Versetzungszeichen platziert.

Popmusik

Akkorde und Liedtext können einfach zu einem Lead Sheet kombiniert werden.

Orchesterstimmen

Die Eingabedatei enthält die Noten eines Stückes. Partitur und Stimmen können aus einer einzigen Eingabe-Datei erstellt werden. Wenn man eine Note verändert, findet sich die Veränderung also gleichzeitig in der Stimme und der Partitur wieder. Damit die Noten mehrfach verwendet werden, sollten sie einer Variablen zugewiesen werden:

Mit dieser Variable kann dann eine Einzelstimme erstellt werden (hier transponiert, die Pausen sind zusammengezogen):

Die gleiche Variable wird dann in der Partitur benutzt (hier in der Originaltonhöhe):

Dokumentation für Anfänger

Es ist uns klar, dass diese Art, Noten zu schreiben, vielen Benutzern seltsam vorkommt. Aus diesem Grund haben wir eine ausführliche Anleitung verfasst, die neuen Benutzern helfen soll. Man sollte mit der Einführung beginnen. Das Handbuch zum Lernen funktioniert als Einführung und Beginn für das Arbeiten mit LilyPond; hier werden viele Fragen beantwortet, bevor man sie überhaupt stellen konnte!

Bisweilen sind Meulinge von manchen Verhaltensweisen von LilyPond unnötig verwirrt. Bitte lesen Sie dieses Handbuch bevor Sie anzweifeln, daß LilyPond fehlerfrei arbeitet.

Weitere Information findet sich unter Handbücher

Der LilyPond Anwender Ben Lemon hat eine ganze Reihe von Video Tutorials in seinem Blog hinterlegt, die sich speziell an Neulinge wenden.

Einfachere Editionsumgebungen

(Klick zum Vergrößern)

LilyPond kümmert sich vor allem darum, Noten in bester Qualität zu setzen – das Programmieren einer graphischen Benutzeroberfläche (GUI) würde uns nur von dieser Aufgabe ablenken. Es gibt dennoch andere Projekte, deren Ziel es ist, LilyPond-Dateien zu erstellen.

Einige Editionsumgebungen beinhalten Syntaxhervorhebung, automatische Vervollständigung und vorgefertigte Vorlagen. Andere Programme stellen tatsächliche eine GUI zur Verfügung, mit der man graphisch eine Partitur editieren kann. Mehr Information finden Sie unter Leichteres Editieren.

Was jetzt?

Sie sind jetzt bereit, LilyPond herunterzuladen. Sind Sie immer noch nicht überzeugt? Lesen Sie Leichteres Editieren.

Leichteres Editieren

Front-end Applications

Frescobaldi

(Klick zum Vergrößern)

https://www.frescobaldi.org

Frescobaldi ist ein leichtgewichtiger (im Sinne von ‚installiert nur wenig zusätzliche Software‘), aber sehr mächtiger LilyPond Musik- und Texteditor mit vielen für die Arbeit mit LilyPond nützlichen Fähigkeiten. Herausragend ist die beidseitige Verknüpfung zwischen dem LilyPond Code und der dargestellten Musik durch ‚point-and-click‘ mit der Maus. Ferner gibt es Partiturassistenten, eingebautes LilyPond Handbuch, Syntaxhighlighting sowie automatische Befehlsvervollständigung. Frescobaldi wurde in Python geschrieben, verwendet PyQt4 für das GUI und ist auf allen gängigen Betriebssystemen verfügbar (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows).

Denemo

(Klick zum Vergrößern)

http://denemo.org

Denemo ist ein graphischer Editor, welcher LilyPond-Dateien produzieren kann und auch Audioplayback erlaubt. Hiermit kann die LilyPond-Datei parallel zum graphischen Notenbild betrachtet werden. Zusätzliche Veränderungen und Anpassungen können an die Objekte angehängt werden – sie werden mit der Denemo-Datei gespeichert, sodass der Benutzer graphisch weiterarbeiten kann.

Wenn man den Cursor im LilyPond-Text bewegt, wird er auch im Notenbild verschoben, und Syntaxfeher in LilyPond-Anpassungen werden in Textansicht markiert, wenn man von dort aus druckt.

Browserbasierte Editoren

Hacklily

https://www.hacklily.org/

(Klick zum Vergrößern)

Ein Onlineeditor und Werkzeug zur Veröffentlichung von Musiknoten angetrieben von LilyPond, mit zusätzlichen Features wie Autovervollständigung und kontextbasierter Hilfe. Der zugrundeliegende Code ist verfügbar unter der AGPL, auf seiner eigenen Entwicklungsseite.

www.omet.ca

http://www.omet.ca/

(Klick zum Vergrößern)

Seit 2010 bietet Online Music Editing Tools (OMET) einen fertigen LilyPond-Service mit einem eigens ausgelegten Webinterface. Eine Registrierung ist erforderlich, aber kostenfrei.

Word processor plug-ins

OOoLilyPond

https://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/OOoLilyPond

Eine Erweiterung für OpenOffice.org, das Dateien für LilyPond innerhalb von Dokumenten in Bilder umwandelt.

IDE Plug-ins

Elysium

https://github.com/thSoft/elysium

Eine vollständige Umgebung für die Bearbeitung von Noten mit LilyPond in Eclipse mit einem mächtigen Toolkit zur einfachen Verwaltung von LilyPond.

Texteditoren

Emacs

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Emacs ist ein Texteditor mit sprachensensitiven Eigenschaften für sehr viele Computersprachen. Emacs ist ein sehr stark erweiterbarer Editor, welcher auch als Integrierte Entwicklungsumgebung benutzt werden kann. Es gibt einen „lilypond“-Modus, der die Sprachdefinitionen für das Arbeiten mit LilyPond-Dateien zur Verfügung stellt. Einer unserer Entwickler hat auch einen Hauptmodus für Emacs, lyqi geschrieben.

Wenn Sie bisher nicht bereits mit Emacs vertraut sind, dann bevorzugen sie möglicherweise einen anderen Editor um LilyPond Dateien zu schreiben.

Nähere Informationen zum Einrichten von Emacs finden Sie unter Unterstützung von Texteditoren.

Vim

https://www.vim.org Vim ist ein minimaler Texteditor und eine Erweiterung des älteren Unix-Editors vi. Er ist auch erweiterbar und konfigurierbar.

Wenn Sie bisher nicht bereits mit Vim vertraut sind, dann bevorzugen sie möglicherweise einen anderen Editor um LilyPond Dateien zu schreiben.

Nähere Informationen zum Einrichten von Vim finden SIe unter Unterstützung von Texteditoren.

TeXShop

https://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/

Der TeXShop-Editor für MacOS X kann erweitert werden, sodass er LilyPond, lilypond-book und convert-ly vom Editor aus ausführen kann. Hierzu wird eine Erweiterung eingesetzt, die man hier erhält:

http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~nicola.vitacolonna/home/content/lilypond-scripts.

Weitere Programme die LilyPond Code exportieren können

Score, Tab- und MIDI-Editoren:

bwwtolily versucht eine .bww oder .bmw Datei nach LilyPond zu konvertieren. Auch wenn nicht jeder Schnörkel korrekt konvertiert wird (das gilt besonders für solche mit ‚piobaireachd‘ [was immer das ist – Anm. des Übersetzers]), jedoch werden diese zumindest aufgeführt.
Canorus kann nach LilyPond exportieren, ist allerdings noch im Beta-Stadium. Tester sind willkommen.
Enc2ly ist ein GNU/Linux Programm zur Konvertierung von Encore Dateien in LilyPond Dateien.
go-enc2ly ist ein in Go geschriebenes Werkzeug um Encore Dateien in LilyPond zu konvertieren. Es wurde unter Verwendung von Felipe Castro’s Forschung und ‚Reverse Engineering‘ geschrieben. Hierzu wurden existierende .enc Dateien modifiziert und in die 4.55 Demo Version importiert.
NtEd, auf der Cairo-Bibliothek basierend, hat experimentelle Unterstützung für LilyPond Export.
NW2LY ist ein C#-Programm, das NoteWorthy Composer Werke nach LilyPond konvertieren kann.
Ripple ist ein Programm, mit dem man Partituren und Stimmen erstellen kann. Es enthält auch einen Modus, in dem man unterschiedliche musikalische Werke untereinander mischen und zu einer Partitur oder einer Stimme zusammenfügen kann.
Rosegarden, ein Audio- und MIDI-Sequenzierer, der auch einen Noteneditor für einzelne Systeme unterstützt.

Algorithmische Code-Generatoren

Abjad, a Python API zur formalisierten Partitur Kontrolle. Es wurde geschrieben um Komponisten dabei zu helfen, komplexe LilyPond Werke interativ und schrittweise zu erzeugen.
FOMUS, (FOrmat MUSic) ist ein Kompositionswerkzeug für Computermusik Komponisten. Geschrieben in LISP läuft es in einer ganzen Reihe von Interpretern Portierung nach C++.
Strasheela ist eine Umgebung auf Basis des Mozart Programming System.

Weitere, nicht mehr aktiv entwickelte Programme

LilyBin ist ein webbasierter LilyPond Editor, in dem man die Noten direkt online setzen kann, ohne LilyPond vorher installieren zu müssen. Codeschnippsel bleiben unter einer eindeutigen URL verfügbar, wie auf so genannten ‚pastebin‘ Webseiten. Auch wenn https://lilybin.com, wo es gehostet wurde, eingestellt wurde, bleibt der Quelltext frei verfügbar unter der MIT-Lizenz, zu finden unter der Entwicklungsseite.
WebLily war einer der ersten Webdienste basierend auf LilyPond.
LilyPondTool war ein Plugin für den jEdit Text Editor.
LilyKDE wurde durch Frescobaldi ersetzt. Es existiert nur noch als LilyKDE3 für KDE 3.5 und lilypond-KDE4 für KDE 4.1.
LilyComp ist ein graphisches Notationsprogramm, das wie ein Ziffernblock funktioniert, mit dem man LilyPond Notation erstellen kann.
MuseScore, ein Notationsprogramm. Der LilyPond Export wurde in Version 2.0 entfernt, aber frühere Versionen sind noch auf Sourceforge. verfügbar.
NoteEdit, konnte MusicXML importieren. Ableger existieren als NtEd und Canorus.
Rumor, ein monophoner Echtzeitkonverter von MIDI nach LilyPond.
tunefl Noten direkt online setzen ohne LilyPond lokal zu installieren. Es erlaubt, alle Feature des Programs mit einem praktischen Webinterface auszuprobieren.
TuxGuitar, ein Tabulator Editor und Spieler, stellt neben Tabulatur auch eine Partiturvorschau zur Verfügung und kann nach LilyPond exportieren.

Was jetzt?

Sind Sie jetzt bereit, LilyPond herunterzuladen.

Sie sind noch immer nicht überzeugt? Viele Komponisten, Musiker und Dirigenten haben gelernt, wie man Noten in unserem Eingabeformat schreibt. Erfahrene Benutzer haben sogar berichtet, dass sie eine volle Partitur in LilyPond schneller notieren können als mit Klaviertastatur oder Maus plus GUI! Vielleicht wollen Sie noch einmal schauen, welche Eigenschaften, Beispiele oder Freiheit LilyPond ermöglicht oder über die Produktionen und Rezensionen unserer Benutzer lesen. Zusätzlich haben wir unsere Herangehensweise an die Computerästhetik der klassischen Notensatzkunst im unserem Hintergrund erklärt.

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The „X image“ is not a registered trademark. It was created by Nihonjoe and CyberSkull, and placed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later. We found the image on this Wikipedia Commons page.

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Download

Downloads für LilyPond 2.24.4

Wichtige Links

Für neue Nutzer

Texteingabe: LilyPond ist ein textbasiertes Notationsprogramm, es ähnelt eher einer Programmiersprache als einem graphischen Programm zum Notensatz. Lesen Sie diesen Abschnitt, um den grundlegenden Bearbeitungsablauf mit LilyPond zu verstehen.

Handbuch zum Lernen: Diese behutsame Einleitung zu LilyPond zeigt, wie man es installiert und leitet durch die ersten Schritte mit dem Programm.

Für Nutzer, die von vorherigen Versionen aktualisieren

Neuerungen: Was gibt es Neues in LilyPond 2.24.4.

Programmbenutzung: Erklärt, wie man bestehende Eingabedateien, die für alte Versionen geschrieben wurden, ohne Aufwand mit convert-ly aktualisiert.

Handbuch zum Lernen: Die Installationsmethode in der Anleitung erlaubt es, zeitgleich mehrere Versionen von LilyPond zu installieren.

GNU/Linux

Generische Pakete oder distributionsabhängige Pakete?

Viele Distributionen enthalten LilyPond in ihrem normalen Paket-System. Diese Versionen können jedoch erheblich älter sein als die aktuelle stabile Version. Wenn das der Fall ist, empfehlen wir nachdrücklich die Verwendung unserer generischen Pakete.

Downloads der generischen Pakete

GNU/Linux x86_64: LilyPond 2.24.4

Windows

Downloads der generischen Pakete

Diese Binärdateien funktionieren unter aktuellen Windows-Versionen (Windows 7 und Windows 8 werden nicht unterstützt).

Windows x86_64: LilyPond 2.24.4

macOS

Downloads der generischen Pakete

Diese Binärdateien funktionieren unter macOS 10.15 (Catalina) und höher. Für ältere Versionen benutzen Sie bitte MacPorts.

macOS x86_64: LilyPond 2.24.4

Einen Paket-Manager verwenden

MacPorts, ein Paket-Manager für macOS, hat einen Port für LilyPond.
Homebrew, ein anderer Paket-Manager für macOS, hat eine Formel für LilyPond.

Für Entwickler

Quellen: für Paketersteller

Alte Downloads: alte Versionen

Entwicklung: die aktuelle instabile Version

Programmlizenz

LilyPond wird unter der GNU General Public License veröffentlicht.

Rechtliches

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Tux the Linux Penguin was created by lewing@isc.tamu.edu with the Gnu Image Manipulation Program.

Quellen

Achtung: Wir empfehlen nicht, dass Sie versuchen, LilyPond selber aus den Quellen zu kompilieren. Fast alle Benutzer haben mehr Vorteile von der vorkompilierten Version.

Quell-Tarball

Quellen: lilypond-2.24.4.tar.gz

Anweisungen für die Übersetzung sind in Compiling aufgeführt.

Alte Downloads

Alle Versionen

Die Quellen und die Binärdateien für Versionen seit 2.23.6 finden sich auf unserer GitLab-Seite für Veröffentlichungen, oder der vorheringen Download-Seite für frühere Versionen.

GPL

Software license

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Handbücher

Handbücher für LilyPond 2.25.22

Einleitung

Texteingabe: LilyPond ist ein textbasiertes Notensatzprogramm. Wenn Sie mit diesem Konzept nicht vertraut sind, lesen Sie darüber bitte jetzt!
Einführung: eine sanfte „unbedingt lesen!“ Einführung in LilyPond. (Einzelheiten zu Einführung)
Glossar: (optional) hier werden musikalische Begriffe auf englisch erklärt und die passenden Übersetzungen in vielen anderen Sprachen gegeben. (Einzelheiten zu Glossar)
Aufsatz: (optional) Hintergrundinformation über den Notensatzprozess und die Ästhetik des Notenstichs im 19. Jahrhundert. (Einzelheiten zu Aufsatz)

Regelmäßig benötigt

Notation: Syntaxreferenz. (Einzelheiten zu Notation)
Benutzung: wie die Programme aufgerufen werden. (Einzelheiten zu Benutzung)
Schnipsel: kurze Tricks, Tipps und Beispiele. (Einzelheiten zu Schnipsel)

Seltener benötigt

FAQ: Häufig gestellte Fragen.
Web: Dieses Dokument. (Einzelheiten zu Web)
Änderungen: Was ist neu? (Einzelheiten zu Änderungen)
Erweitern: clevere Anpassungen. (Einzelheiten zu Erweitern)
Interna: Referenz für Anpassungen. (Einzelheiten zu Interna)

Anderes Material

Alles: vorhergehende stabile Versionen und die aktuelle Version als komprimiertes Archiv.
LilyPond Snippet Repository: Beispiele, Tricks und Tipps, von LilyPond-Benutzern erstellt.
Video Tutorials: Der LilyPond Anwender Ben Lemon hat eine Reihe Video Tutorials in seinem Blog veröffentlicht. Sie wenden sich an Neulinge.
LilyPond Scheme: ein externes Tutorial zum Lernen von Scheme, der Sprache zur Programmierung von LilyPond. Empfohlen für absolute Beginner, was die Programmierung angeht.
Scheme Lernen für LilyPond: ein weiteres LilyPond-orientiertes Tutorial für Scheme. Empfohlen bei einiger Erfahrung mit der Programmierung in einer anderen Sprache.
Extending Guide: eine externe Dokumentation über die Erweiterung von LilyPond in Scheme.
Entwicklung: Handbücher für die Entwicklerversion.
FDL: Diese Handbücher sind unter der GNU Free Documentation License herausgegeben.

Format der Handbücher

Die LilyPond Handbücher liegen generell in drei Formaten vor: geteiltes HTML, großes HTML und PDF. Geteiltes HTML eignet sich besonders Online gelesen zu werden. Großes HTML (und einige sind sehr groß) beinhaltet das gesamte Handbuch in einer einzigen Seite. PDF ist zum Download und dem Offline Lesen vorgesehen. Sie gelangen zu diesen 3 Formaten indem Sie den Links details of folgen und dann dem Namen des Handbuchs.

Einführung

Handbuch zum Lernen

Dieses Buch erklärt, wie man beginnen sollte, LilyPond zu erlernen. Hier werden auch einige Schlüsselkonzepte und einfache Begriffe erklärt. Sie sollte diese Kapitel von vorne bis hinten lesen.

Am Ende jeden Abschnitts gibt es einen Absatz Siehe auch, welcher Links in andere Abschnitte enthält. Beim ersten Durchlesen sollten Sie diesen Verlinkungen nicht folgen. Wenn Sie das gesamte Handbuch einmal gelesen haben, werden Sie wahrscheinlich einige Abschnitte noch einmal lesen und dann auch den Links folgen, um weitere Informationen zu erhalten.

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Einführung (geteiltes HTML) − das Handbuch wird in viele HTML-Seiten aufgeteilt.
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Einführung (großes HTML) − das Handbuch als eine großen HTML-Seite.
(großer einmaliger Download)
learning.pdf − das Handbuch als PDF-Datei.
(großer einmaliger Download, 3.4M)

Glossar

Hier werden musikalische Fachbegriffe auf Englisch erklärt und Übersetzungen zu einer Reihe von Sprachen gegeben. Wenn Sie sich mit der Terminologie der Musik und Musiknotation nicht auskennen (und vor allem, wenn Sie Englisch nicht fließend sprechen) lohnt es sich sehr, dieses Glossar zu Hilfe zu ziehen.

Lesen Sie

Glossar (geteiltes HTML) − das Handbuch wird in viele HTML-Seiten aufgeteilt.
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Glossar (großes HTML) − das Handbuch als eine großen HTML-Seite.
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music-glossary.pdf − das Handbuch als PDF-Datei.
(großer einmaliger Download, 556K)

Aufsatz

Dieses Buch enthält eine kurze Geschichte des Musiknotensatzes und anschließend eine Betrachtung der Notensatztechniken von LilyPond. Ein Vergleich von LilyPond mit anderen Notensatzprogrammen wird auch vorgenommen.

Achtung: Die detailierten typographischen Beispiele lassen sich in der PDF-Version einfacher analysieren, weil sie eine höhere Auflösung hat.

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Aufsatz (geteiltes HTML) − das Handbuch wird in viele HTML-Seiten aufgeteilt.
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Aufsatz (großes HTML) − das Handbuch als eine großen HTML-Seite.
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essay.pdf − das Handbuch als PDF-Datei.
(großer einmaliger Download, 1.3M)

Notation

Notationsreferenz

Dieses Buch erklärt alle Befehle von LilyPond, die Notation erstellen.

Achtung: Die Notationsreferenz geht davon aus, dass der Leser die Grundlagen von LilyPond bereits kennt, wie sie im Handbuch zum Lernen ausgeführt werden. In einigen Fällen sollte die englische Musikterminologie (siehe Glossar) bekannt sein.

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Notation (geteiltes HTML) − das Handbuch wird in viele HTML-Seiten aufgeteilt.
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Notation (großes HTML) − das Handbuch als eine großen HTML-Seite.
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notation.pdf − das Handbuch als PDF-Datei.
(großer einmaliger Download, 6.4M)

Benutzung

Benutzerhandbuch

Dieses Buch erklärt, wie die Programme ausgeführt werden, wie man LilyPond-Notation in andere Programme integrieren kann und macht Vorschläge, wie man am besten seine Notationsdateien anlegt. Es wird empfohlen, das Dokument zu lesen, bevor man größere Projekte in Angriff nimmt.

Lesen Sie

Benutzung (geteiltes HTML) − das Handbuch wird in viele HTML-Seiten aufgeteilt.
(kleiner Download für jede Seite)
Benutzung (großes HTML) − das Handbuch als eine großen HTML-Seite.
(großer einmaliger Download)
usage.pdf − das Handbuch als PDF-Datei.
(großer einmaliger Download, 440K)

Schnipsel

Hier werden ausgewählte Schnipsel an LilyPond-Code mit der produzierten Notation gezeigt. Die Schnipsel stammen aus dem LilyPond-Schnipsel-Depot (LSR) und stehen alle unter der Public Domain.

Beachten Sie, dass dieses Dokument keine bestimmte Teilmenge von LSR darstellt. LSR läuft unter der stabilen Version von LilyPond, sodass jedes Schnipsel, das eine neue Eigenschaft von der Entwicklungsversion zeigt, extra hinzugefügt werden muss. Diese Schipsel sind in der Datei Documentation/snippets/new/ im Quellverzeichnis von LilyPond gespeichert.

Die Schnipsel-Listen für jeden Abschnitt der Notationsreferenz sind auch verlinkt vom Siehe auch Absatz.

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Schnipsel (geteiltes HTML) − das Handbuch wird in viele HTML-Seiten aufgeteilt.
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Schnipsel (großes HTML) − das Handbuch als eine großen HTML-Seite.
(großer einmaliger Download)
snippets.pdf − das Handbuch als PDF-Datei.
(großer einmaliger Download, 3.9M)

FAQ

Einleitende Fragen

Wo sind die graphischen Menüs, Werkzeugleisten und Notenblatt?

LilyPond erfordert es, dass Noten als Text eingegeben werden. Lesen Sie bitte über unsere Texteingabe.

Es gibt sehr viel Dokumentation! Muss ich das alles

lesen?

Sie müssen das Handbuch zum Lernen lesen. Der Rest der Dokumentation ist zum Nachschlagen gedacht, wenn Sie eine bestimmte Art von Notationszeichen oder -typ brauchen.

Das ist trotzdem noch viel zu lesen! Lohnt sich das

denn?

Das müssen Sie selber entscheiden; die Gründe, warum Sie LilyPond anderen Programmen vorziehen können, sind dargestellt in der Einleitung.

Benutzungsfragen

Etwas funktioniert nicht! Wie kann ich es reparieren?

Das wird erklärt in Fehlersuche.

Warum ändern Sie die Syntax?

Das wird erklärt in Warum verändert sich die Syntax?.

Web

Dieses Handbuch stellt allgemeine Information zu LilyPond zur Verfügung. Es enthält auch Information über die verschiedenen Gemeinschaftsforen, das Melden von Fehlern und die Mitarbeit am Programm.

Lesen Sie es

Das neueste Handbuch

Web-Handbuch von 2.25.22

Web (geteiltes HTML) − das Handbuch wird in viele HTML-Seiten aufgeteilt.
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web.pdf − das Handbuch als PDF-Datei.
(großer einmaliger Download, 2.5M)

Änderungen

Hier eine Zusammenfassung von wichtigen Veränderungen und neuen Eigenschaften in LilyPond seit der vorigen stabilen Version.

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changes.pdf − das Handbuch als PDF-Datei.
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Erweitern

Erweitern Sie LilyPond

Dieses Handbuch erklärt, wie man Erweiterungen für LilyPond schreibt.

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Interna

Handbuch der Interna

Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Anzahl sehr stark verlinkter Seiten, welche alle klitzekleinen Details von jeder einzigen LilyPond-Klasse, jedem Objekt und jeder Funktion dokumentieren. Das Dokument wird direkt aus den Formatanweisungen des Quellcodes erstellt und ist nur auf Englisch erhältlich.

Fast alle Formatierungsfunktionen, die intern benutzt werden, stehen auch direkt dem Benutzer zur Verfügung. Beispielsweise die meisten Variablen, die Dickewerte, Entfernungen usw. kontrollieren, können in der Eingabedatei verändert werden. Es gibt eine große Anzahl von Formatierungsoptionen und alle sind in diesem Dokument erklärt. Jeder Abschnitt der Notationsreferenz hat einen Siehe auch-Abschnitt, der auf diese Dokumentation verweist.

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(großer einmaliger Download, 5.2M)

Alles

Versionen zum Herunterladen

Tar-Archive zum Herunterladen sind nur über https://lilypond.org erhältlich.

Frühere stabile Versionen

LilyPond 2.22 Dokumentation (auf deutsch)
LilyPond 2.20 Dokumentation (auf deutsch)
LilyPond 2.18 Dokumentation (auf deutsch)
LilyPond 2.16 Dokumentation (auf deutsch)
LilyPond 2.14 Dokumentation (auf deutsch)
LilyPond 2.12 Dokumentation (auf deutsch)
LilyPond 2.10 Dokumentation (auf englisch)
LilyPond 2.8 Dokumentation (auf englisch)
LilyPond 2.6 Dokumentation (auf englisch)
LilyPond 2.4 Dokumentation (auf englisch)
LilyPond 2.2 Dokumentation (auf englisch)
LilyPond 2.0 Dokumentation (auf englisch)
LilyPond 1.8 Dokumentation (auf englisch)
LilyPond 1.6 Dokumentation (auf englisch)

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Lizenz der Dokumentation

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Gemeinschaft

Zusammenarbeit mit der Gemeinschaft

Kontakt: hier erhalten Sie Hilfe, können diskutieren und in Kontakt mit der Gemeinschaft bleiben.
Minimalbeispiele: sie werden dringend empfohlen, wenn man über LilyPond diskutieren will.
Fehlerberichte: wenn etwas schief gelaufen ist.

LilyPond verbessern

Helfen Sie uns: Ihre Mitarbeit wird benötigt.
Sponsoren: finanzielle Unterstützung.
Entwicklung: für Mitarbeiter und Tester.
Google Summer of Code: Projektideen für den Google Summer of Code (GSoC).
Autoren: die Menschen, die LilyPond zu dem gemacht haben, was es heute ist.

Verschiedenes

Veröffentlichungen: was wir geschrieben haben oder was über uns geschrieben wurde.
Neuigkeiten: Neuigkeiten vom LilyPond-Projekt.
Abstellkammer: Ankündigungen und Listen der Veränderungn von vorherigen Versionen, alte Neuigkeiten, etc.

Kontakt

Benutzergruppen und Hilfe

Benutzer Mailingliste: `lilypond-user@gnu.org`

Diese Mailingliste ist der zentrale Ort, an dem Benutzer diskutieren und einander helfen. Die Sprache der Liste ist Englisch. Zu deutschsprachiger Hilfe, siehe unten.

lilypond-user Abonnement und Info

user Archiv 1 Archiv 2

Achtung: Wenn Sie Fragen stellen (immer auf Englisch) benutzen Sie bitte Minimalbeispiele!

Andere Sprachen

Deutsches LilyPond-Forum

Französische Mailingliste

Italienische Mailingliste

Portugiesischsprachige Gruppe

Spanische Mailingliste

LilyPond-Schnipsel-Depot

Das LilyPond-Schnipsel-Depot (LSR - LilyPond Snippet Repository) ist eine große Sammlung durch Anwender erstellter Beispiele, die frei kopiert und in eigenen Werken verwendet werden dürfen. Schauen Sie, was andere Leute konstruiert haben und fügen Sie ggf. eigene Schnipsel hinzu!

https://lsr.di.unimi.it

Besonders lehrreiche Beispiele aus dem LSR werden in unsere offizielle Dokumentation eingefügt, in Schnipsel.

Diskussionen der Entwickler und Übersetzer

Entwickler-Mailingliste: `lilypond-devel@gnu.org`

Diskussionen der Entwicklern finden auf dieser Liste statt. Patches können ebenfalls hier hin geschickt werden.

lilypond-devel Abonnement und Info

devel Archiv 1 Archiv 2

Mailingliste für Fehler: `bug-lilypond@gnu.org`

Fehlermeldungen und Diskussionen finden hier statt, jedoch bitte keine Patches an diese Liste senden.

bug-lilypond Abonnement und Info

bug Archiv 1 Archiv 2

Achtung: Bevor Sie eine Nachricht an die Fehler-Liste schreiben, lesen Sie bitte unsere Richtlinien für Fehlerberichte.

Ankündigung neuer Versionen

Mailingliste für neue Versionen: `info-lilypond@gnu.org`

Diese Mailingliste hat ein sehr geringes Mailaufkommen und kann nur gelesen werden. Sie dient der Ankündigung neuer Versionen.

info-lilypond Abonnement und Info

info Archiv 1 Archiv 2

IRC

Unterstützung können Sie auch auf unserem IRC-Kanal erhalten:

#lilypond@irc.libera.chat

Dieser Kanal hat kein öffentliches Archiv, sodass jede Frage, die auch für andere Benutzer nützlich sein könnte, besser auf der Mailingliste gestellt wird.

Minimalbeispiele

Was sind „Minimalbeispiele“?

Ein Minimalbeispiel ist eine vollständige Quelldatei, die nicht mehr weiter reduziert werden kann, ohne dass das illustrierte Problem verschwindet. Es sollten keine Warnungen und Fehlermeldungen produziert werden, die nicht mit dem Problem im Zusammenhang stehen.

Warum sollte ich Minimalbeispiele erstellen?

Je einfacher ein Beispiel ist, um so schneller können mögliche Hilfeleistende das Beispiel untersuchen, das auftretende Problem einkreisen und Ihnen helfen.
Die effiziente Analyse eines Problems erfordert ohnehin eine Reduktion auf das Wesentliche. Wenn Sie umfangreiches Material an die Liste schicken, dann erwecken Sie den Eindruck, dass Ihnen die Lösung Ihres Problems keine eigene Mühe wert ist.
Ein Minimalbeispiel zu erstellen hilft Ihnen zu verstehen, was vorgeht. Viele Problemberichte erübrigen sich schon während der Erstellung eines Minimalbeispiels. Ist ein „Bug“ mit einem bestimmten Minimalbeispiel nicht reproduzierbar, ist es wahrscheinlich, daß er andere Ursachen als vermutet hat.

Wie werden sie erstellt?

Immer die \version-Nummer einfügen.
Machen Sie es klein! Beispiele zur Platzverteilung oder dem Seitenlayout können viele Notentakte erfordern, aber die meisten Probleme können in weniger als einem einzigen Takt gezeigt werden.
Wenn Sie versuchen, ein Beispiel zu erstellen, versuchen Sie zuerst, Abschnitte Ihrer Datei auszukommentieren (% oder %{ … %}). Wenn Sie etwas auskommentieren können, und das Problem immer noch vorhanden ist, entfernen Sie die auskommentierten Abschnitte.
Vermeiden Sie komplizierte Noten, Tonarten, Schlüssel oder Taktarten, es sei denn Ihr Problem hat mit ihnen etwas zu tun.
Benutzen Sie nicht \override oder \set, es sei denn, der Fehler zeigt sich im Zusammenhang mit diesen Befehlen.
Sie können auch zusätzlich ein Bild anhängen, welches die gewünschte graphische Darstellung zeigt.

Wie klein sollten sie sein?

Ist der Code unten ein Minimalbeispiel?

\version "2.14.1"
\include "english.ly"

\score {
  \new Staff {
    \key d \major
    \numericTimeSignature
    \time 2/4
    <cs' d'' b''>16 <cs' d'' b''>8.
    %% Here: the tie on the D's looks funny
    %% Too tall? Left-hand endpoint is not aligned with the B tie?
    ~
    <cs' d'' b''>8 [ <b d'' a''> ]
  }
}

Das ist zwar kein langer Code, aber ein wirkliches Minimalbeispiel ist folgendes:

\version "2.14.1"
{
  % middle tie looks funny here:
  <c' d'' b''>8. ~ <c' d'' b''>8
}

Wenige Minimalbeispiele brauchen mehr als 10 Zeilen, meistens kann das Problem mit vier Zeilen gezeigt werden!

Fehlerberichte

Wenn Ihre Datei zu einem Programmabsturz oder falschem Notensatz führt, handelt es sich um einen Fehler.

1. Schritt: Bekannte Fehler

Vielleicht ist der Fehler schon bekannt. Prüfen Sie hier:

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues

Achtung: Bitte fügen Sie NICHT selber neue Fehlerberichte hinzu! Wenn der Fehler einmal im Bug-Tracker zu sehen ist, können Sie selber weitere Informationen hinzufügen.

2. Schritt: Einen Fehlerbericht erstellen

Wenn Sie einen Fehler entdeckt haben, der nicht aufgelistet ist, helfen Sie uns bitte, indem Sie einen Fehlerbericht (bug report) erstellen.

Achtung: Wir akzeptieren Fehlerberichte nur als Minimalbeispiele. Wir haben sehr begrenzte Ressourcen, weshalb jedes nicht-Minimalbeispiel zurückgewiesen wird. Fast jeder Fehler kann mit vier oder sogar weniger Noten demonstriert werden!

Hier ein Beispiel eines guten bug reports:

% Accidentals should be printed for only
% the first note in a tie, but this version
% prints flats on both notes.
\version "2.10.1"

\relative c'' {
 bes1 ~
 bes1
}

3. Schritt: Einsenden eines Fehlerberichtes

Wenn Sie sichergestellt haben, dass der Fehler noch nicht bekannt ist und einen Fehlerbericht erstellt haben, senden sie ihn bitte an uns!

Leider gibt es kein Interface mehr, um ohne Abonnement auf die Liste bug-lilypond zu schreiben; siehe

https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond

für weitere Informationen.

4. Schritt: Auf Antwort warten

Wenn Ihr Fehlerbericht an die Liste versandt wurde, untersuchen unsere Fehlerbeseitiger (engl. bug squad) den Bericht. Sie werden eventuell nach mehr Information gefragt. Sie werden informiert, wann der Bericht im Tracker hinzugefüt wird. Warten Sie bitte vier Tage, da uns für diese Tätigkeit nur eine geringe Zahl an Helfern zur Verfügung stehen.

Wenn ein Fehler dem Tracker hinzugefügt wurde, können Sie ihn kommentieren, um mehr Information hinzuzufügen oder automatisch benachrichtigt zu werden.

Optionale Hilfe: Das gewünschte Verhalten erklären

Wenn ein Fehlerbericht einmal dem Tracker hinzugefügt wurde, kann es sehr hilfreich sein, wenn wir sehen können, wie die gewünschte Ausgabe aussieht. Sie können beliebig Code, Text und Bilder (auch mit anderen Programmen erstellt) hinzufügen, die das gewünschte Bild demonstrieren.

Helfen Sie uns

Wir brauchen Sie!

Vielen Dank, dass Sie sich dafür interessieren, uns zu helfen – wir freuen uns sehr, wenn Sie sich einbringen. Bitte denken Sie daran, dass Sie auch allen anderen LilyPond-Benutzern helfen, wenn Sie sich an der Entwicklung beteiligen.

Auch kleine Aufgaben können große Auswirkungen haben: wenn man sich ihnen annimmt, können sich die erfahrenen Entwickler den schwierigen Aufgaben widmen anstatt diese einfachen Probleme zu lösen.

Bei einem so großen und vielfältigen Projekt wie LilyPond ist es oft schwierig zu entscheiden, wo man anfangen soll. Zusätzlich zu den Vorschlägen, die sich weiter unten finden, können Sie auch eine E-Mail (auf Englisch) an den Frog meister schicken und Ihre Fähigkeiten mitteilen, sodass er Ihnen einen Einstieg zeigen oder Ihnen bei ihren eigenen Projekten helfen kann.

Einfache Aufgaben

Keine Kentnisse im Programmieren benötigt!

Unterstützung auf der Mailingliste: beantworten Sie Fragen von anderen Benutzern.
Fehlerberichte: helfen Sie anderen Benutzern, richtige Fehlerberichte zu erstellen und/oder schließen Sie sich dem Fehlerteam an, um die Probleme zu verwalten.
Grand Regression Test Checking: Verfizieren Sie, dass LilyPond richtig arbeitet, indem Sie die Ausgabe der Testschnipsel überprüfen. Ein Schnipsel zu überprüfen dauert weniger als eine Minute!
Dokumentation: kleine Änderungen (immer zuerst auf Englisch) können vorgeschlagen werden, wenn die Richtlinien von Vorschläge für die Dokumentation beachtet werden.
Das LilyPond-Schnipsel-Depot (LSR): erstellen und reparieren Sie Schnipsel nach den Richtlinien in Hinzufügen und Bearbeiten von Schnipseln..
Diskussionen, Gutachten und Testen: die Entwickler brauchen oft Feedback zu neuer Dokumentation, möglichen Änderungen der Syntax und um neue Funktionen zu testen. Bitte nehmen Sie an diesen Diskussionen teil!

Fortgeschrittene Aufgaben

Diese Aufgaben setzen voraus, dass Sie die Quellen von Programm und Dokumentation haben und die Quellen auch kompilieren können.

Achtung: Wir empfehlen, dass Beitragende, die Windows oder MacOS X benutzen, nicht ihre eigene Entwicklungsumgebung einrichten, sondern anstattdessen lilybuntu benutzen, welches besprochen ist in Schnellstart.

Beitragende, die GNU/Linux oder FreBSD benutzen, können auch lilybuntu einsetzen, aber wenn Sie Ihre eigene Entwicklungsumgebung einrichten wollen, lesen Sie bitte Mit dem Sourcecode arbeiten und Kompilieren.

Beginnen Sie, indem Sie das Kapitel Zusammenfassung für erfahrene Entwickler lesen.

Dokumentation: für große Änderungen siehe Arbeit an der Dokumentation.
Website: die Website wird aus der Quelle der Dokumentation erstellt. Siehe die Information über die Dokumentation und zusätzlich Arbeit an der Webseite.
Übersetzungen: siehe Die Dokumentation übersetzen und Die Webseite übersetzen.
Fehlerberichte oder neue Eigenschaften: die beste Art, hiermit zu beginnen ist es, sich den Frogs, den Fehlervertilgern, anzuschließen. Siehe auch Programmierungsarbeiten.

Sponsoren

Kopfgelder/Prämien

In der Vergangenheit

haben einige Benutzers für neue Eigenschaften bezahlt
haben sich einige Entwickler einstellen lassen, um neue Eigenschaften hinzuzufügen

Das LilyPond-Projekt kann derartige Verabredungen nicht koordinieren, wir wollen deshalb weder dazu aufrufen noch davon abraten. Jegliche Abkommen zwischen privaten Personen beziehen sich nur auf diese Personen, ncht auf das LilyPond-Projekt.

Richtlinien

Jeder Benutzer, der Geld gegen Arbeit eintauschen will, sollte Folgendes im Auge behalten:

LilyPond-Entwickler können ihre Angebote auf den E-Mail-Listen von Zeit zu Zeit bewerben.
Jegliche Abkommen zwischen privaten Personen sollten die normalen Vorsichtsmaßnahmen beinhalten: wer bezahlt, wieviel bezahlt werden soll, mit welcher Methoden und nach welchen Bedingungen. Wir empfehlen, dass alle Unklarheiten bezüglich dieser Punkte geklärt werden sollten, bevor die Arbeit beginng.

Entwicklung

Entwicklung für LilyPond 2.25.22

Achtung: Hier handelt es sich um möglicherweise instabile Entwicklerversionen. Wenn Sie nicht genau wissen, wie man LilyPond installiert und benutzt, empfehlen wir ausdrücklich, die stabile Download-Version zu benutzen und die stabilen Handbücher zu lesen.

Veröffentlichungsnummern

Es gibt zwei Veröffentlichungsreihen für LilyPond: stabile Versionen und die instabilen Entwicklerversionen. Stabile Versionen haben eine gerade zweite Versionsnummer (also etwa 2.14, 2.16, 2.18). Entwicklerversionen haben eine ungerade zweite Versionsnummer (also 2.15, 2.17, 2.19).

Download

Anleitungen zu git und der Kompilierung finden sich im Contributor’s Guide (nur auf Englisch).

lilypond git-Repositorium

Schreiber der Dokumentation und Tester sollten die neuesten Binärpakete herunterladen:

GNU/Linux x86_64: LilyPond 2.25.22

macOS arm64: LilyPond 2.25.22

macOS x86_64: LilyPond 2.25.22

MacPorts Paket

Windows x86_64: LilyPond 2.25.22

Source: lilypond-2.25.22.tar.gz

Falls Sie unsicher sind, wie diese Binärpakete installiert werden, lesen Sie bitte den Anfang der Einführung.

Handbuch für Entwicklungsarbeiten (Contributor’s guide)

Die Entwicklung von LilyPond ist eine ziemlich komplizierte Angelegenheit. Um neuen Mitarbeitern zu helfen und das ganze System (ziemlich) stabil zu halten, haben wir ein Handbuch für Entwicklungsarbeiten geschrieben (nur auf Englisch).

Handbuch für Entwicklungsarbeiten (geteiltes HTML) − das Handbuch wird in viele HTML-Seiten aufgeteilt.
(kleiner Download für jede Seite)
Handbuch für Entwicklungsarbeiten (großes HTML) − das Handbuch als eine großen HTML-Seite.
(großer einmaliger Download)
contributor.pdf − das Handbuch als PDF-Datei.
(großer einmaliger Download, 828K)

Regressionstests

Regressionstests: Die Regressionstests dieser Version. (PDF-Version)
MusicXML-Tests: musicXML-Regressionstests dieser Version. (PDF-Version)
abc2ly-Tests: abc2ly-Tests dieser Version. (PDF-Version)

Handbücher

Achtung: Diese Handbücher sind für LilyPond 2.25.22; die neuesten Handbücher finden sich unter https://lilypond.org.

Einleitung
Lernen (geteiltes HTML)	Lernen (großes HTML)	learning.pdf
Glossar (geteiltes HTML)	Glossar (großes HTML)	music-glossary.pdf
Aufsatz (geteiltes HTML)	Aufsatz (großes HTML)	essay.pdf

Häufig benötigte Handbücher
Notation (geteiltes HTML)	Notation (großes HTML)	notation.pdf
Benutzung (geteiltes HTML)	Benutzung (großes HTML)	usage.pdf
Schnipsel (geteiltes HTML)	Schnipsel (großes HTML)	snippets.pdf

Seltener benötigte Handbücher
Webseite (geteiltes HTML)	Webseite (großes HTML)	web.pdf
Veränderungen (geteiltes HTML)	Veränderungen (großes HTML)	changes.pdf
Erweitern (geteiltes HTML)	Erweitern (großes HTML)	extending.pdf
Interna (geteiltes HTML)	Interna (großes HTML)	internals.pdf

Google Summer of Code

What is Google Summer of Code?

GSoC is a global program that offers stipends to contributors to write code for free software and open source projects. Within a flexible time frame of three months or more, contributors work to complete a given task as part of the project’s community and under the guidance of experienced mentors. The program is an excellent opportunity for students and non-professionals to gain experience with real-world software development and make a contribution that benefits everyone. It brings new contributors to LilyPond and enables people who are already involved to become more involved. LilyPond participates in GSoC as part of the GNU project.

We had GSoC participants in 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020. This site is current for the 2023 program.

Project Ideas List

Below is a list of GSoC project ideas, but if you have other ideas for a project you are welcome to make a suggestion on our developer mailing list (see Kontakt). There are a number of areas where LilyPond could be improved, and our development team is always willing to help those who would like to tackle a project similar to those listed below. As mentor availability varies from project to project and from year to year it is wise to get in touch with us as early as possible.

Note that we also have „Community Mentors“. We aim at assigning one Community Mentor to each active project who is not responsible for discussing the implementation or reviewing the code. Instead they will on the one hand discuss the design of the planned features from the (power) user perspective, and they will look after the communication between participant and mentor, and between the two and the community.

A full list of all the current open issues can be found here.

Adding more glyphs to LilyPond’s Emmentaler music font

More SMuFL glyphs: The World Wide Web (W3C) consortium has been maintaining the Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) with a reference font called Bravura since a few years; this font contains a large amount of glyphs not part of LilyPond’s Emmentaler music font. A mapping between LilyPond glyph names and SMuFL glyph names and encoding can be found in this ongoing project.
‚On‘ and ‚between‘ staff-line variants: For some glyphs it would be beneficial to have different glyphs, depending on whether they sit on a staff line or between two staff lines. Examples are shaped note heads.
Shorter and narrower variants of some glyphs: For tight typesetting situations (i.e., only a small amount of horizontal space is available) it would help to have glyph variants that need less horizontal space, for example narrower accidentals (issues #2141ff). Another, more specific example could be an ancient notation breve notehead coming in two variants (with a smaller or bigger ‚hole‘).

Difficulty: easy to medium

Requirements: MetaFont/MetaPost, C++, good eye for details

Recommended knowledge: basic LilyPond knowledge

Size: 175h/350h, depending on the selected sub-tasks

Mentor: Werner Lemberg

Improve/Extend Export to MusicXML

There is experimental support for exporting scores to MusicXML. So far there is limited coverage that should be extended, and the export should become more robust with regard to unconventionally organized input files. Several strategies can be thought of in that regard.

Significant progress in coverage has been made in a GSoC Project hosted by Frescobaldi in 2017, but there is still much to be done that could make a nice GSoC project.

Working in this project will mainly be done in the python-ly repository.

Difficulty: easy to hard (depending on the targeted improvements)

Size of project: 175h/350h

Requirements: Python, MusicXML

Mentor: Peter Bjuhr (?)

Fix Beaming Patterns/Beam Subdivisions and Tuplets

Subdivision is an important way to improve the readability of beamed music. However, despite several attempts at fixing it LilyPond still does not always produce correct results. In order to properly fix this issue it seems necessary to rewrite the responsible code from the ground up. Much work has already been done assessing the issue (see this discussion and issue #5547).

In the course of this assessment it has been found that LilyPond’s conception of tuplets is somewhat flawed as well (see this discussion), and that this has to be fixed as well.

Difficulty: medium

Size of project: 350h

Requirements: C++

Recommended knowledge: Good musical and mathematical understanding of timing issues

Mentors: Carl Sorensen (?)

Support for Style Sheets

LilyPond’s engraving output can be tweaked to the least detail, and one important addition in recent years was the ability to use alternative notation fonts. It is possible to create reusable modules for „house styles“, but this project aims at bringing this to a new level by creating a convenient extension package with support for creating, applying, and sharing modular style sheets. We are looking for a hierarchical structure that allows to mix and match style elements for „house“ (e.g., „my-personal-style“, „client-a“, „client-b“, etc.), score type, paper size, etc.

Work can be built upon the existing notation-fonts openLilyLib package. We would like to see a further improvement of the loading mechanism for notation fonts (for example, a better separation of loading notation and text fonts) as part of the project, and optionally (this would involve working on Lilypond’s C++ code) support for notation fonts that are installed system-wide.

Difficulty: medium

Size of project: 175h/350h

Requirements: Scheme, aesthetic competence

Recommended: sense of building hierarchical frameworks

Optional: C++ (for font loading internals)

Mentor: Abraham Lee (?)

Community Mentor: Kieren MacMillan

Information for Applicants/Participants

For all GSoC issues related to LilyPond, please contact our ‚lilypond-devel‘ mailing list (see Kontakt)!

In order to have a satisfying experience with GSoC applicants are strongly advised to thoroughly read the following recommendations. Some of these are relevant for the application process, others for the time within the project.

Read all applicable information on the program’s website, particularly the students’ manual. Make sure you fulfill all of Google’s prerequisites and are willing to join the program as specified.
Please get in touch with us as soon as possible if you are interested in applying with a project. Mentor availability may change without notice, project proposals may need fine-tuning, and many other reasons might require us to reject or ignore an application that hasn’t been discussed before.
We do not know in advance how many „slots“ we will have available for projects, so please be aware that you may find yourself in competition with other applicants or not. Interested or even enthusiastic response from our mentors is no guarantee of eventually being accepted, and not being accepted does not necessarily indicate a negative evaluation of your application. If we have to decide between different applicants there may be various aspects to consider.
Integration in the LilyPond community is a fundamental part of GSoC, and we expect our participators to make substantial efforts to become community members. Within the bonding period we expect you to be active on our mailing lists, introducing yourself but also communicating about unrelated tasks. This goes beyond the mere setting up of a working environment and familiarizing yourself with the relevant code, but we think it is crucial for the GSoC project to be mutually satisfying.
If you are accepted to the program you will have one mentor explicitly assigned to your project. With this mentor you will have to agree upon a communication strategy, be it emails, chatrooms, issue trackers or voice/video chats. Regular communication is absolutely crucial for the success of a GSoC project so you are stricly required to keep talking to your mentor. But keep in mind that your mentor has explicitly taken over the responsibility for your project, and while unlike you he isn’t paid for this activity you are still entitled to get regular attention from him.
In order to get support from your mentor you have to give him a chance to follow your progress and efforts. Therefore it is important to regularly commit your changes to the versioning repository you are working on. Don’t hesitate making unfinished code available because you are afraid of criticism, and don’t suppress questions because you think they might be considered stupid. But ideally your code should at any time be accompanied by compatible testing code. Your mentor may not be able to properly assess your code by only reading it without the opportunity to apply it in a real example.

There is a list of inactive projects in the Abstellkammer. We list projects there that are still considered valuable but for which there are currently no mentors available.

Autoren

Aktuelles Entwicklungsteam

Colin Campbell: cpkc.music@shaw.ca, Patch Meister
Dan Eble: nine.fierce.ballads@gmail.com, Core developer
Jonas Hahnfeld: hahnjo@hahnjo.de https://www.hahnjo.de/ Core developer, release unbreaker, GitLab manager
Phil Holmes: mail@philholmes.net http://www.philholmes.net Build unentangler, Bug squad member
David Kastrup: dak@gnu.org, hard core developer, user and programming interfaces, bug squashing and swamp drainage.
Werner Lemberg: wl@gnu.org, Fonts, bug squasher
Han-Wen Nienhuys: hanwen@xs4all.nl, https://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/, Main author
Francisco Vila: Translation Meister

Früheres Entwicklungsteam

Jean Abou Samra: jean@abou-samra.fr, https://jean.abou-samra.fr, Factotum
Mats Bengtsson: mats.bengtsson@ee.kth.se, https://www.kth.se/profile/matben/, Support guru
Bertrand Bordage: bordage.bertrand@gmail.com, Core developer, font designer
Trevor Daniels: t.daniels@treda.co.uk, Assistant documentation editor
Colin Hall: Bug Meister
Ian Hulin: Core developer
Reinhold Kainhofer: reinhold@kainhofer.com, https://reinhold.kainhofer.com, Core developer, Music2xml wrangler
Pedro Kroeger: Build Meister
Jonathan Kulp: Assistant documentation editor
James Lowe: Documentation, Patch Meister
Joe Neeman: Core developer
Jan Nieuwenhuizen: janneke@gnu.org, https://JoyofSource.com, https://AvatarAcademy.nl, Main author
John Mandereau: john.mandereau@free.fr, Translation Meister
Patrick McCarty: SVG guru, bug squad member, bug squasher, text handling
Graham Percival: https://percival-music.ca, Bug Meister, Grand Documentation Project leader
Mark Polesky: Documentation, Code cleanup
Neil Puttock: Core developer
Jürgen Reuter: reuter_j@web.de, https://www.juergen-reuter.de, Ancient notation
Mike Solomon: mike@mikesolomon.org, Core developer, Frog Meister
Erik Sandberg: Bug Meister
Nicolas Sceaux: Core developer, Schemer extraordinaire
Carl Sorensen: c_sorensen@byu.edu, Core developer
Valentin Villenave: Core developer
Janek Warchoł: janek.lilypond@gmail.com, Core developer

Aktuelle Mitarbeiter

Programmierung

Martín Rincón Botero, Amir Czwink, Jiří Hon, Masamichi Hosoda, Michael Käppler, Mark Knoop, Thomas Morley, Lukas-Fabian Moser, Benkő Pál, Mark Polesky, Alen Šiljak, Kim Shrier, Saul James Tobin, Christoph Wagner, John Wheeler, Éric Würbel, Jason Yip, David Zelinsky, Yiyu Zhou

Schriftarten

Dokumentation

Federico Bruni, Amir Czwink, Derek Erdmann, Felix Janda, Thomas Morley, Paolo Prete, Furkan Şimşekli, David Zelinsky

Übersetzung

Walter Garcia-Fontes, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Begüm Önal, Gon Solo

Frühere Mitarbeiter

Programmierung

Erlend Aasland, Maximilian Albert, Aleksandr Andreev, Guido Amoruso, Don Armstrong, Guido Aulisi, Joe Austin, Sven Axelsson, Kevin Barry, Robin Bannister, Kristof Bastiaensen, Étienne Beaulé, Davide Bonetti, Martín Rincón Botero, Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Tim Burgess, Nathan Chou, Juliusz Chroboczek, Peter Chubb, Angelo Contardi, Thibaut Cuvelier, Vicente Solsona Della, Hajo Dezelski, Michael Welsh Duggan, Hassan Elfatihi, Jefferson Felix, David Feuer, Bertalan Fodor, Richard Gay, Mathieu Giraud, Frederic Gohier, Lisa Opus Goldstein, Adam Good, John Gourlay, David Stephen Grant, Torsten Hämmerle, Yuval Harel, Andrew Hawryluk, Jordan Henderson, Karlin High, Christian Hitz, Karin Hoethker, Rutger Hofmann, Marc Hohl, Masamichi Hosoda, Bernard Hurley, Yoshinobu Ishizaki, Chris Jackson, Felix Janda, David Jedlinsky, Nihal Jere, Martin Joerg, Heikki Junes, Michael Käppler, Doug Kearns, Thomas Klausner, Marek Klein, Mark Knoop, Michael Krause, Tobias Kretschmar, Jean-Baptiste Lamy, John Lemcke, Patrice Levesque, Vincent Le Ligeour, Jonatan Liljedahl, Urs Liska, Peter Lutek, Kieren MacMillan, Andrew Main, John Mandereau, Hendrik Maryns, Malte Meyn, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Morley, Paul Morris, Lukas-Fabian Moser, Alexander Myltsev, David Nalesnik, Matthias Neeracher, Martin Neubauer, Joram Noeck, Keith OHara, Justin Ohmie, Tatsuya Ono, Antonio Ospite, Benkő Pál, Benjamin Peterson, Knut Petersen, Valentin Petzel, Matthew Peveler, Guy Gascoigne-Piggford, Anders Pilegaard, Henning Hraban Ramm, Nathan Reed, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer, Ben Rudiak-Gould, Stan Sanderson, Andreas Scherer, Johannes Schindelin, Patrick Schmidt, Devon Schudy, Boris Shingarov, Kim Shrier, Pete Siddall, Alen Šiljak, Edward Sanford Sutton, Adam Spiers, Tim Starling, David Svoboda, Samuel Tam, Simon Tatham, Heikki Taurainen, Timofey, Piers Titus van der Torren, Owen Tuz, Sebastiano Vigna, Jan-Peter Voigt, Arno Waschk, Nathan Whetsell, Bernhard M. Wiedemann, John Williams, Andrew Wilson, Jaap de Wolff, Milan Zamazal, Rune Zedeler, Boris-Chengbiao Zhou, Rodolfo Zitellini

Schriftarten

Jay Anderson, Tom Cato Amundsen, Johannes Feulner, David Stephen Grant, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl, Masamichi Hosoda, Chris Jackson, Alexander Kobel, Owen Lamb, Daniel Benjamin Miller, Abraham Lee, Keith OHara, Carsten Steger, Arno Waschk, Rune Zedeler

Dokumentation

Erlend Aasland, Simon Albrecht, Trevor Bača, Kevin Barry, Bernhard Bloechl, Alard de Boer, Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Torsten Hämmerle, Jay Hamilton, Joseph Harfouch, Andrew Hawryluk, Karlin High, Cameron Horsburgh, Geoff Horton, Masamichi Hosoda, Heikki Junes, Michael Käppler, Kurtis Kroon, Daniel Tobias Johansen Langhoff, Davide Liessi, Urs Liska, Dave Luttinen, Kieren MacMillan, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Malte Meyn, Christian Mondrup, Mike Moral, Thomas Morley, Paul Morris, Eyolf Østrem, Ralph Palmer, Pierre Perol-Schneider, François Pinard, Noam Postavsky, David Pounder, Michael Rasmussen, Till Rettig, Pavel Roskin, Patrick Schmidt, Andrej Shadura, Alberto Simoes, Fr. Samuel Springuel, Guy Stalnaker, Greg Swinford, Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Anh Hai Trinh, Eduardo Vieira, Stefan Weil, John Wheeler, Rune Zedeler, Rodolfo Zitellini

Fehler Bereinigung

Simon Albrecht, James E. Bailey, Federico Bruni, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Derek Klinge, Marek Klein, Urs Liska, Kieren MacMillan, Ralph Palmer, Dmytro O. Redchuk

Support

Simon Albrecht, Eluze, Anthony Fok, Christian Hitz, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Chris Jackson, Heikki Junes, Marek Klein, Urs Liska, Alex Loomis, Kieren MacMillan, Tim McNamara, Thomas Morley, Paul Morris, David Nalesnik, Ralph Palmer, Pierre Perol-Schneider, Neil Puttock, David Svoboda, Tao

Übersetzung

Caio Barros, Alard de Boer, Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Abel Cheung, Frédéric Chiasson, Simon Dahlbacka, Orm Finnendahl, Rafael Fontenelle, Pavel Fric, Hiroshi Fukuhara, Walter Garcia-Fontes, David González, Tommaso Gordini, Nicolas Grandclaude, Erika Griechisch, Guyutongxue, Dénes Harmath, Damien Heurtebise, Masamichi Hosoda, Bjoern Jacke, Matthieu Jacquot, Neil Jerram, Heikki Junes, Nicolas Klutchnikoff, Chengrui Li, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Adrian Mariano, Christian Mondrup, Tineke de Munnik, Steven Michael Murphy, Till Paala, Benkő Pál, François Pinard, Gauvain Pocentek, Till Rettig, Ludovic Sardain, Yoshiki Sawada, Thomas Scharkowski, Clytie Siddall, August S. Sigov, Roland Stigge, Tomohiro Tatejima, Paco Tomillo, Risto Vääräniemi, Andrea Valle, Ralf Wildenhues, Olcay Yıldırım

Veröffentlichungen

Was wir über LilyPond geschrieben haben

Server Acim. GNU/LilyPond (Turkish Language). 2013. (PDF 2100k).
Graham Percival. Sustainability in F/OSS: developers as a non-renewable resource. In Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2010 (RMLL2010), 2010. (PDF 333k).
Han Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen. LilyPond, a system for automated music engraving. In Colloquium on Musical Informatics (XIV CIM 2003), May 2003. (PDF 95k).
Han Wen Nienhuys. LilyPond, Automated music formatting and the Art of Shipping. In Forum Internacional Software Livre 2006 (FISL7.0), 2006. (PDF 1095k).
Margarethe Maierhofer Lischka & Florian Hollerweger. Lilypond: music notation for everyone!. In Linux Audio Conference 2013 (LAC2013), 2013. (PDF 890k).
Reinhold Kainhofer. OrchestralLily: A Package for Professional Music Publishing with LilyPond and LATEX. In The Linux Audio Conference 2010 (LAC2010), 2010. (PDF 767k).
Erik Sandberg. Separating input language and formatter in GNU LilyPond. Master’s thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology, March 2006. (PDF 750k).
Francisco Vila. Tipografía musical para la educación y análisis de la dinámica del software libre (Spanish language). PhD thesis, Universidad de Extremadura, 2015. (PDF 20M).

Was andere mit LilyPond gemacht haben

Kevin C. Baird. Real-time generation of music notation via audience interaction using python and GNU LilyPond. In New Interfaces for Music Expression, May 2005.
Alexandre Tachard Passos, Marcos Sampaio, Pedro Kröger, and Givaldo de Cidra. Functional Harmonic Analysis and Computational Musicology in Rameau. In Proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, pages 207–210, 2009.
Graham Percival, Tosten Anders, and George Tzanetakis. Generating Targeted Rhythmic Exercises for Music Students with Constraint Satisfaction Programming. In International Computer Music Conference, 2008.
Alberto Simões, Anália Lourenço, and José João Almeida. (J. Neves et al., editor). Using Text Mining Techniques for Classical Music Scores Analysis. In New Trends in Artificial Intelligence, 2007.

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LilyPond 2.25.22 released November 30, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.22. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.4, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.24.4 released! July 21, 2024

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.4. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

This version contains a number of fixes since the release of the previous stable version in November 2023. We recommend all users to update. Scores converted to or written for 2.24.0 will continue to work with this release. A list of added features and other user-visible changes for 2.24 can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/. Among others, version 2.24.0 switched to Guile 2.2 and features a completely rewritten infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally allowing us to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows.

For distributions, Guile 3.0 is officially supported since the previous LilyPond 2.24.3, even though the recommended version will remain Guile 2.2 for the LilyPond 2.24 series.

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Ankündigungen

Ankündigungen und Neuigkeiten nach Version: v2.22, v2.20, v2.18, v2.16, v2.14, v2.12, v2.10, v2.8, v2.6, v2.4, v2.2, v2.0, v1.2, v1.0, v0.1

Ausführliche Liste der Änderungn nach Version: v2.22, v2.20, v2.18, v2.16, v2.14, v2.12, v2.10, v2.8, v2.6, v2.4, v2.2, v2.0, v1.8, v1.6, v1.4, v1.2

Danke

Dank an die Entwickler, Beitragenden, Bug-Jäger und Vorschläge für v2.22, v2.20, v2.18, v2.16, v2.14, v2.12, v2.10, v2.8, v2.6, v2.4, v2.2, v2.0, v1.8

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Änderungslog für Entwickler nach Version: v2.10, v2.3, v2.1, v1.5 (1), v1.5 (2), v1.4, v1.3, v1.2, v1.1, v1.0, v0.1, v0.0

Inactive Google Summer of Code project suggestions

The following list describes GSoC projects that had been proposed in recent years and which are still considered valuable but for which we currently don’t have mentors available.

Automated testing and documentation for openLilyLib

openLilyLib is an extension framework for LilyPond code providing a „snippets“ repository and a suite of integrated packages such as for example page layout tools or scholarly annotations. It is very powerful and promising, but to really get off the ground two features are missing: automated testing and documentation generation.

Automated testing is necessary to ensure modifications to functionality don’t break other functions within the library. There is already some Automated Testing of the „snippets“ repository with Github’s Travis server, but this has to be reconsidered and extended to cover the standalone packages too.

In order to be usable for a wider range of LilyPond users on a „consumer level“ openLilyLib needs proper documentation. This documentation has to be generated from the sources, so a system is needed that requires package authors to document the input files and provide additional usage examples, from which documentation is generated. Ideally but not necessarily this is implemented as a Git hook, i.e., automatically upon each update to the repository. We don’t prescribe the tools and approaches to be used, but the most widely used language in the LilyPond domain is Python, so there would be some bias towards that. Alternatively a Scheme solution could be fine so generating the documentation would actually be triggered by „compiling“ a certain LilyPond input file. In general it is advisable to make use of proven concepts and tools from other languages.

The eventual output of the documentation should be a static HTML site that can be viewed locally and/or uploaded to a website. But it would be beneficial if the tool would first generate an intermediate representation (e.g., a JSON file with additional media files) from which a Single Page Application could retrieve content for display on openLilyLib’s website. Development of such a SPA can be part of the GSoC project, but is optional.

Difficulty: medium

Requirements: Python or Scheme, static website generator(s) or (Node.js based) dynamic web application technology. Continuous Integration (can be learned during the bonding period)

Contemporary Notation

LilyPond is very good at creating non-standard notation. Having to code every graphical element instead of simply drawing it may seem cumbersome but is in fact a strong asset. New notational functionality can be provided with consistent appearance, automatic layout and a natural syntactic interface.

Within the openLilyLib library system the student will create a fundamental infrastructure and building blocks to make creating contemporary notation easier. Additionally (at least) one concrete package is developed to cover specific contemporary notation, such as for example the style of a given composer, extended playing techniques for a specific instrument or a certain category of effects.

Difficulty: medium

Requirements: Scheme (interaction with LilyPond internals), contemporary notation techniques

Recommended: sense of building hierarchical frameworks

Mentors: NN, Urs Liska

Frescobaldi Extensions

Starting with the current release 3.1 Frescobaldi has an extension API that allows the easy integration of arbitrary functionality in the editing environment. These could range from, say, document statistics and accounting functionality to fancy features like a built-in video chat client or a stock market ticker.

We would welcome project suggestions about arbitrary Frescobaldi extensions of appropriate complexity that add substantial functionality for working with LilyPond scores which might not be suitable to be included into Frescobaldi itself.

As suggestions and examples may serve: a project management extension that can manage repetoire of arbitrary complexity, handle the generation of template files and the compilation process. Or an extension to manage the openLilyLib infrastructure.

Difficulty: easy/medium

Requirements: Python, (PyQt)

Optional: Guile Scheme (if functionality involves LilyPond internals)

Mentor: Urs Liska

Implement a System to Handle Scores System by System

One strategy that may improve the issue of LilyPond’s compilation time is to handle scores in a system-by-system manner through partial compilation. This project explores one approach to achieve this and may lay the ground for future development towards a „LilyPond server“. It is very ambitions because it involves working with LilyPond’s internals and optionally a reference user interface in Frescobaldi.

The idea behind this project is the implementation of a music viewer that doesn’t display pages but sees a scores as a continuous sequence of systems that are stitched together. LilyPond can produce such a sequence of files, and it can be made aware of the moments of each line break. That way only systems have to be recompiled that are affected by a modification, thus saving significant waiting times. Optionally there could be new engraving modes in LilyPond that don’t try to optimize the line breaking, saving even more time, at least while in content editing mode.

The project is fairly complex and has many more aspects than could be listed on this page. So if you are interested in this please get in touch with us as early as possible to evaluate options and discuss the topics before you write an application.

Difficulty: hard

Requirements: LilyPond/Scheme, Python/PyQt

Optional: C++ if it’s necessary to modify LilyPond itself

Mentors: NN (, Urs Liska)

Community Mentor: Kieren MacMillan

MusicXML

Improving MusicXML import and export functions:

File interchange between LilyPond and other applications using MusicXML is still a difficult matter. To import MusicXML it has to be converted manually by the musicxml2ly script. Export to MusicXML is only available as a rudimentary feature inside Frescobaldi. In order to provide natural interchange between LilyPond and MusicXML based applications there’s the need of actual import functionality and a dedicated export backend.

Importing XML shall provide file, line and column to add origin attributes to generated objects. That way point and click can be made available in Frescobaldi or other supported IDEs.

Exporting XML shall be realized with an exporter class like the MIDI export. This may be based on the work already done in GSoC 2015 by David Garfinkle. It should be checked if it is possible to use another XML library than the one provided by guile-2 in order to have this feature available in current LilyPond (which is based on guile-1.8).

Difficulty: medium

Requirements: MusicXML, Python, Scheme, basic LilyPond knowledge

Recommended: Familiarity with other scorewriters (for cross-testing)

Improve slurs and ties

The engraving quality of slurs and ties is often unsatisfactory. Ties ‚broken‘ by clef or staff changes are not handled well. The project could include collecting and sorting examples of bad output, deciding on the intended output and writing code to improve them.

Difficulty: hard

Requirements: C++, experience with writing heuristics

Recommended knowledge: LilyPond knowledge, aesthetic sense

Grace notes

Fix problems with synchronization of grace notes. Grace notes can interfere with LilyPond’s timing and cause odd effects, especially when multiple staffs are used where some have grace notes and others don’t. This is one of the longest-standing and one of the more embarrassing bugs in LilyPond.

Difficulty: medium

Requirements: C++, MIDI

Recommended: familiarity with LilyPond internals

Improve default beam positioning

For regular, cross-staff, broken and kneed beams. Beaming should depend on context and neighbor notes (see section 2.2 of this book). If possible also reduce beaming-computation time.

Difficulty: medium

Requirements: C++, experience with writing heuristics

Recommended knowledge: aesthetic sense

Help improve compilation behavior

Automatic code analysis tools, like valgrind memory leak detection or callgrind code profilers, provide valuable information about possible flaws in our C++ code.

Difficulty: medium

Requirements: C++

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LilyPond 2.25.21 released October 27, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.21. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.4, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.20 released September 29, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.20. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.4, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.19 released August 24, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.19. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.4, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.18 released July 14, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.18. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.17 released June 15, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.17. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.16 released May 12, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.16. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.15 released April 20, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.15. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.14 released March 23, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.14. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.13 released Feburary 10, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.13. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.12 released January 7, 2024

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.12. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.11 released December 10, 2023

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.11. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.24.3 released! November 19, 2023

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.3. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

This version contains a number of fixes since the release of the previous stable version in August 2023. We recommend all users to update. Scores converted to or written for 2.24.0 will continue to work with this release. A list of added features and other user-visible changes for 2.24 can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/. Among others, version 2.24.0 switched to Guile 2.2 and features a completely rewritten infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally allowing us to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows.

For distributions, LilyPond 2.24.3 most notably includes a fix to restore PDF conversion with the recent Ghostscript 10.02.1. Also Guile 3.0 is now officially supported, even though the recommended version will remain Guile 2.2 for the LilyPond 2.24 series.

LilyPond 2.25.10 released November 11, 2023

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.10. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.2, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.9 released October 7, 2023

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.9. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.2, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.8 released September 16, 2023

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.8. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.2, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.24.2 released! August 12, 2023

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.2. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

This version contains a number of fixes since the release of the previous stable version in February 2023. This includes an update of the library for garbage collection, addressing crashes when compiling very large scores (several hundreds of pages) on Windows. We recommend all users to update. Scores converted to or written for 2.24.0 will continue to work with this release. A list of added features and other user-visible changes for 2.24 can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/. Among others, version 2.24.0 switched to Guile 2.2 and features a completely rewritten infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally allowing us to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows.

LilyPond 2.25.7 released July 30, 2023

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.7. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.6 released June 24, 2023

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.6. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.5 released May 21, 2023

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.5. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.4 released April 22, 2023

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.4. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.3 released April 1, 2023

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.3. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.2 released February 18, 2023

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.2. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.1, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.24.1 released! February 12, 2023

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.1. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

This version includes a number of fixes since the release of the previous stable version in December 2022, and we recommend all users to update. Scores converted to or written for 2.24.0 will continue to work with this release. A list of added features and other user-visible changes for 2.24 can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/. Among others, version 2.24.0 switched to Guile 2.2 and features a completely rewritten infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally allowing us to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows.

LilyPond 2.25.1 released January 21, 2023

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.1. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.0, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.25.0 released December 23, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.0, the start of the next development cycle. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.0, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.24.0 released! December 15, 2022

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.0. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

This version includes improvements and fixes since the branching of the previous stable release in October 2020. A list of added features and other user-visible changes can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/. This release switches to Guile 2.2 and features a completely rewritten infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally allowing us to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows.

LilyPond 2.23.82 released November 27, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.82. This is the third release candidate towards the next stable version 2.24.0 expected in December. Please test your scores with this version and report back the experience as well as any problems you encounter.

LilyPond 2.23.81 released November 13, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.81. This is the second release candidate towards the next stable version 2.24.0 expected in December. Please test your scores with this version and report back the experience as well as any problems you encounter.

LilyPond 2.23.80 released October 22, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.80. This is the first release candidate towards the next stable version 2.24.0 expected in December. Please test your scores with this version and report back the experience as well as any problems you encounter.

LilyPond 2.23.14 released October 9, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.14. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.23.13 released September 18, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.13. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.23.12 released August 23, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.12. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.23.11 released July 24, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.11. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.23.10 released June 26, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.10. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.23.9 released May 20, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.9. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current stable release.

LilyPond 2.23.8 released April 24, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.2 version.

In this release, dropping Guile 1.8 support has finally become possible also for our sources. We’d like to dedicate this release to Ian Hulin who was one of the first systematically working on our numerous roadblocks for Guile 2 migration after tackling a few other high-level problems. In the time spans where his health permitted it, he was able to significantly reduce the amount of remaining problems for the Guile 2 migration after having started working on them in 2010, making the goal that we finally reached now more tangible for others to work on after he left us in 2015.

LilyPond 2.23.7 released March 26, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.7. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.2 version.

LilyPond 2.22.2 released! February 22, 2022

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.22.2 on 2-22-22. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

This version includes improvements and fixes since the release of the previous stable release in April 2021.

LilyPond 2.23.6 released February 06, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.6. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.1 version.

LilyPond 2.23.5 released November 28, 2021

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.5. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.1 version.

LilyPond 2.23.4 released October 10, 2021

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.4. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.1 version.

LilyPond 2.23.3 released July 4, 2021

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.3. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.1 version.

LilyPond 2.22.1 released! April 25, 2021

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.22.1. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

This version includes improvements and fixes since the release of the previous stable release in January 2021.

LilyPond 2.23.2 released April 11, 2021

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.2. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.0 version.

LilyPond 2.23.1 released March 23, 2021

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.1. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.0 version.

LilyPond 2.23.0 released January 24, 2021

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.0. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.0 version.

LilyPond 2.22.0 released! January 10, 2021

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.22.0. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

This version includes improvements and fixes since the branching of the previous stable release in August 2017 (even though the final 2.20.0 was only released in March 2020). A list of added features and other user-visible changes can be found at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/changes/ Behind the scenes, this release switches to Python 3 and includes a number of performance improvements that should be noticeable for larger scores.

LilyPond 2.21.82 released December 14, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.21.82. This is a further pre-release test version, but these are usually reliable. We encourage all users and developers to download this version to test it to allow us to release a new stable version. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.

LilyPond 2.21.81 released November 29, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.21.81. This is a further pre-release test version, but these are usually reliable. We encourage all users and developers to download this version to test it to allow us to release a new stable version. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.

LilyPond 2.21.80 released November 1, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.21.80. This is a pre-release test version, but these are usually reliable. We encourage all users and developers to download this version to test it. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.

LilyPond 2.21.7 released October 11, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.21.7. This is a development version, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.

LilyPond 2.21.6 released September 13, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.21.6. This is a development version, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.

LilyPond 2.21.5 released August 16, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.21.5. This is a development version, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.

LilyPond 2.21.4 released July 28, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.21.4. This is a development version, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.

LilyPond 2.21.3 released July 12, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.21.3. This is a development version, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.

LilyPond 2.21.2 released June 21, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.21.2. This is a development version, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.

LilyPond 2.21.1 released April 28, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.21.1. This is a development version, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.

LilyPond 2.21.0 released April 9, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.21.0. If you want to use the latest stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.20.0 version.

LilyPond 2.20.0 released! March 1, 2020

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.20.0. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

This version provides a number of updates, including updated manuals. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version.

LilyPond 2.19.84 released February 4, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.84. This release is the final pre-release test version for the upcoming stable 2.20 release. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.83 released October 16, 2018

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.83. This release is a further pre-release test version for the upcoming stable 2.20 release. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.82 released June 24, 2018

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.82. This release is a further pre-release test version for the upcoming stable 2.20 release. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.81 released January 28, 2018

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.81. This release is a further pre-release test version for the upcoming stable 2.20 release. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.80 released October 14, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.80. This release is a pre-release test version for the upcoming stable 2.20 release. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.65 released August 06, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.65. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.64 released July 15, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.64. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.63 released June 28, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.63. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.62 released June 10, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.62. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.61 released May 21, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.61. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.60 released May 08, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.60. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.59 released April 09, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.59. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.58 released March 26, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.58. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.57 released March 12, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.57. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.56 released February 26, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.56. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.55 released February 12, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.55. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.54 released January 4, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.54. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.53 released December 17, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.53. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.52 released December 4, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.52. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.51 released November 20, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.51. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.50 released November 6, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.50. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.49 released October 16, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.49. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.48 released September 13, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.48. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.47 released August 31, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.47. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.46 released July 26, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.46. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.45 released July 09, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.45. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.44 released June 21, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.44. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.43 released June 8, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.43. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.42 released May 15, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.42. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.41 released May 1, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.41. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

Two LilyPond projects in Google Summer of Code 2016 April 23, 2016

We are happy to see two students, Nathan Chou and Jeffery Shivers, working on LilyPond as participants in the Google Summer of Code this year. We hope they produce great results and stay in the developer community afterwards.

Nathan will tackle an annoying limitation, namely the unability of spanners to cross voices. His work will make a class of ugly workarounds obsolete. Jeffery will bring the ScholarLY package[1] to production quality and add a LaTeX package to it, making it possible to create beautiful critical reports from data encoded directly in the LilyPond score.

[1] https://github.com/openlilylib/scholarly

LilyPond 2.19.40 released April 17, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.40. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.39 released March 27, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.39. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.38 released March 13, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.38. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.37 released February 28, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.37. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.36 released January 31, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.36. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.35 released January 02, 2016

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.35. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.34 released December 22, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.34. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.33 released December 6, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.33. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.32 released November 22, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.32. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.31 released November 8, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.31. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.30 released October 25, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.30. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.29 released October 18, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.29. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.28 released September 27, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.28. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.27 released September 12, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.27. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.26 released August 27, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.26. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.25 released August 9, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.25. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.24 released July 26, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.24. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.23 released July 12, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.23. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.22 released June 28, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.22. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.21 released May 24, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.21. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.20 released May 10, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.20. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.19 released April 26, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.19. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.18 released April 5, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.18. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.17 released March 15, 2015

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.17. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.16 released February 28, 2015

At long last, we are very happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.16. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

We would like to acknowledge and thank Masamichi Hosoda for making this release possible with his work on updating GUB, the build tool.

LilyPond 2.19.15 released September 28, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.15. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.14 released September 14, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.14. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.13 released August 31, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.13. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.12 released August 17, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.12. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.11 released August 3, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.11. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.10 released July 13, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.10. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.9 released June 29, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.9. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.8 released June 15, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.8. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.7 released May 25, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.7. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.6 released May 11, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.6. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.5 released April 20, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.5. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.4 released April 6, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.4. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.18.2 released! March 23, 2014

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.2. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

This version provides a number of updates to 2.18.0, including updated manuals. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version.

LilyPond production named BEST EDITION 2014 March 11, 2014

We are thrilled that the edition of the songs of Oskar Fried (1871-1941), published recently by our fellow contributors Urs Liska and Janek Warchoł [1], received the "Musikeditionspreis BEST EDITION 2014" of the German Music Publishers’ Association [2]. The ceremony took place at the Frankfurt Musikmesse.

We congratulate Janek and Urs for gaining such public recognition of typographical and editorial excellence of their work. We are also delighted to inform you that they intend to make their work available under a Free license as soon as the publisher expenses are covered. Please support this initiative by buying the printed volume through the publisher [3].

[1] https://lilypondblog.org/category/fried-songs
[2] https://www.best-edition.de
[3] http://www.sound-rel.de

LilyPond 2.19.3 released March 2, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.3. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.18.1 February 16, 2014

We have released updated manuals for LilyPond’s stable version, 2.18. The manuals are now for 2.18.1 and have a number of updates and improvements over 2.18.0. There will be a further release of 2.18 in the future (2.18.2), and this will include the updates to the manuals as well as some minor enhancements to the LilyPond core functionality.

To summarise the current situation: stable LilyPond application: 2.18.0; stable LilyPond manuals: 2.18.1; development for both: 2.19.2.

LilyPond 2.19.2 released February 2, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.2. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.1 released January 19, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.1. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.19.0 released January 5, 2014

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.0. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.

LilyPond 2.18.0 released! December 29, 2013

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might be most visible:

Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather than a rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.

Sets and overrides can now use the syntax

\override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."

instead of the previous

\override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."

Triplets with a given group length can now be written as

\tuplet 3/2 4 { c8 c c  c c c }

instead of

\times 2/3 { c8 c c }  \times 2/3 { c8 c c }

A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html

Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.

LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by

Main Developers:: Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave, Janek Warchoł
Core Contributors:: Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl, James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer, Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
Documentation Writers:: Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker, Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
Bug Squad:: Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer
Support Team:: Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan, Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
Translators:: Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada

and numerous other contributors.

LilyPond 2.17.97 released! December 8, 2013

We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.97 as a potential final beta release for the upcoming stable release 2.18. The developers believe this to be feature-complete, the documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be overlooked. For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the latest version, see Updating files with convert-ly. Please test this release and report back any problems, see Bug reports.

LilyPond 2.17.96 released! November 24, 2013

We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.96 as a further beta release for the upcoming stable release 2.18. The developers believe the release to be feature-complete, the documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be overlooked. For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the latest version, see Updating files with convert-ly. Please test this release and report back any problems, see Bug reports.

LilyPond 2.17.95 released! November 3, 2013

We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.95 as beta release for the upcoming stable release 2.18. The developers are still busy finding solutions for some last-minute problems, but the release is supposed to be feature-complete, the documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be overlooked. For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the latest version, see Updating files with convert-ly. Please test this release and report back any problems, see Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.17.29 released! October 20, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.29. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.28 released! October 6, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.28. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.27 released! September 26, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.27. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.26 released! September 8, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.26. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.25 released! August 25, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.25. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.24 released! August 11, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.24. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.23 released! July 28, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.23. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.22 released! July 14, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.22. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

This update cures the issue with the Windows version crashing with a problem with positioning text.

LilyPond 2.17.21 released! June 30, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.21. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.20 released! June 9, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.20. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond blog. June 2, 2013

Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at lilypondblog.org!

LilyPond 2.17.19 released! May 26, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.19. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.18 released! May 11, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.18. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.17 released! April 27, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.17. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.16 released! April 13, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.16. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.15 released! March 30, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.15. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.14 released! March 10, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.14. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes (including putting span bars back where they should be) and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.13 released! February 23, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.13. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.12 released! February 8, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.12. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.11 released! January 26, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.11. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.10 released! January 12 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.10. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.16.2 released! January 4, 2013

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.

LilyPond 2.17.9 released! December 15, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.9. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.8 released! December 1, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.8. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.7 released! November 17, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.7. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

The LilyPond Report #28. November 12, 2012

The October issue of the LilyPond Report focuses on the meeting of LilyPond developers and users in Waltrop, Germany last August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that venue.

There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup whose work on LilyPond is solely paid for by financial contributions from other developer and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from a web-based music typesetting service using LilyPond internally.

Come read LilyPond Report 28 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

LilyPond 2.16.1 released! November 9, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.

LilyPond 2.17.6 released! November 3, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.6. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.5 released! October 20, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.5. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.4 released! October 6, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.4. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.3 released! September 23, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.3. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.2 released! September 10, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.2. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.1 released! August 28, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.1. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.17.0 released! August 26, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.0. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.16 version.

LilyPond 2.16.0 released! August 24, 2012

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0. LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous main stable version. A few major improvements are:

Support for kievan square notation
User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
Music functions have become quite more versatile

A full list of new features is given in:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html

Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...

Main development team:

Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave, Jan Warchoł

Programming contributors:

Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker, Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt, Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren, Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol

Documentation contributors:

James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil

Bug squad:

Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer, James Lowe

Support:

Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes

Translation contributors:

Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada

LilyPond 2.15.95 released! August 11, 2012

We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.95. With this release, development on version 2.15 is frozen for the upcoming 2.16 stable release and only open to bug fixes.

All users are urged to try this version to ensure the best quality of the upcoming stable release. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

LilyPond 2.15.42 released! August 02, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.42. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

The LilyPond Report #27. August 2, 2012

The LilyPond Report is back, with some interesting insights on new Scheme-related features recently added by our community’s only paid developer David Kastrup (thanks to your continuing donations). Also to be found in this issue are an overview of some lesser-known LilyPond companion projects, and a handful of more shallow factoids.

Come read LilyPond Report 27 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

Release candidate withdrawn July 11, 2012

We have discovered a regression since 2.14.2, so lilypond 2.15.41 is no longer a candidate for the 2.16.0 release. However, please continue testing it – we would like to discover (and fix!) any more regressions as soon as possible. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

Release candidate 8 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.41 released! July 4, 2012

LilyPond 2.15.41 is out; this is the eighth release candidate of the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be on 18 July 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.15.40 released! June 05, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.40. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

Release candidate withdrawn June 01, 2012

We have discovered a regression since 2.14.2, so lilypond 2.15.39 is no longer a candidate for the 2.16.0 release. However, please continue testing it – we would like to discover (and fix!) any more regressions as soon as possible. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

Release candidate 7 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.39 released! May 22, 2012

LilyPond 2.15.39 is out; this is the seventh release candidate of the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be on 05 June 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

The LilyPond Report #26. May 22, 2012

The LilyPond Report is back, with a new editor on board - Pavel Roskin, who tells us about his adventures in strange lands of compiler bugs! There is also a detailed report about current development status, and an analysis of example LilyPond output - see for yourself how close (or how far?) are we from matching the quality of hand-engraved scores.

Come read LilyPond Report 26 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

Release candidate 6 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.38 released! May 3, 2012

LilyPond 2.15.38 is out; this is the sixth release candidate of the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

Update: Due to a few Critical bugs, another release candidate will be required.

LilyPond takes part in Google Summer of Code 2012! April 25, 2012

Being a part of GNU project, we are participating in Google Summer of Code program, which offers students stipends for working on open source software.

Our contributor Janek Warchoł was accepted for 2012 edition of GSoC. He will be working on advanced lyrics positioning in LilyPond.

Release candidate 5 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.37 released! April 19, 2012

LilyPond 2.15.37 is out; this is the fifth release candidate of the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be on 03 May 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

Release candidate 4 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.36 released! April 6, 2012

LilyPond 2.15.36 is out; this is the fourth release candidate of the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be on 20 April 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

The LilyPond Report #25. Apr 1st, 2012

The LilyPond Report is back, with a rather unusual issue featuring our young Polish contributor Janek Warchoł! Also included in this issue are quite a few unexpected items, including (but not limited to)… a cooking recipe!

Come read LilyPond Report 25 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

LilyPond 2.15.35 released! Mar 28, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.35. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.34 released! Mar 19, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.34. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.33 released! Mar 08, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.33. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

The LilyPond Report #24. Mar 5, 2012

A new issue of the LilyPond Report is now available for reading; topics include a request for funding, an article about exciting new features in LilyPond grammar, and an overview of LilyPond-based web applications.

Come read LilyPond Report 24 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

LilyPond 2.15.32 released! Mar 03, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.32. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.31 released! Feb 29, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.31. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

Release candidate 3 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.30 released! Feb 17, 2012

LilyPond 2.15.30 is out; this is the third release candidate of the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be on 02 March 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.15.29 released! Feb 9, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.29. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.28 released! Feb 3, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.28. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.27 released! Jan 24, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.27. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

The LilyPond Report #23. Jan 20, 2012

The LilyPond Report is back, with developer David Kastrup as a new editor! This issue features an exposé on some of the new, handy commands recently added to LilyPond, as well as an interview with LilyPond contributor and composer Mike Solomon.

Come read LilyPond Report 23 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

LilyPond 2.15.26 released! Jan 16, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.26. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

The 2.15.25 has been skipped due to build problems.

LilyPond 2.15.24 released! Jan 07, 2012

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.24. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.23 released! Dec 21, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.23. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.22 released! Dec 15, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.22. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.21 released! Dec 6, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.21. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.20 released! Nov 24, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.20. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.19 released! Nov 18, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.19. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.18 released! Nov 12, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.18. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.17 released! Nov 10, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.17. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.16 released! October 28, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.16. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.15 released! October 24, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.15. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.14 released! October 7, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.14. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.13 released! September 27, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.13. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

Release candidate 2 cancelled Sep 23, 2011

The release countdown is cancelled due to the discovery of a Critical regression.

Release candidate 2 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.12 released! Sep 20, 2011

LilyPond 2.15.12 is out; this is the second release candidate of the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be on 27 Sep 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.15.11 released! September 11, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.11. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to the possibility of a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.10 released! September 6, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.10. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few outstanding Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.

LilyPond 2.15.9 released! August 30, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.9. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes, and also adds support for MacOS X 10.7.

Release candidate 1 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.8 released! Aug 01, 2011

LilyPond 2.15.8 is out; this is the first release candidate of the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be on 08 Aug 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.15.7 released! July 29, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.7. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.

LilyPond 2.15.6 released! July 26, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.6. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.

LilyPond 2.14.2 released! July 25, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.14.2. This fixes a few minor bugs in the stable version, and should cause no problems. We recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.

LilyPond 2.15.5 released! July 12, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.5. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.

LilyPond 2.15.4 released! July 4, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.4. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.

LilyPond 2.15.3 released! June 27, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.3. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.

LilyPond 2.15.2 released! June 18, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.2. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.

LilyPond 2.14.1 released! June 12, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.14.1. This fixes a few minor bugs in the stable version, and should cause no problems. We recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.

LilyPond 2.15.1 released! June 11, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.1. This is the beginning of a new unstable development effort, and adds the usual number of bugs.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.

LilyPond 2.15.0 released! June 7, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.0. This is the beginning of a new unstable development effort, and adds the usual number of bugs.

It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.

LilyPond 2.14.0 released! June 6, 2011

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.14. LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

Many improvements have been made in the past two and a half years since the previous main stable version. A few major improvements are:

LilyPond is now licensed under the GNU GPL v3 or higher.
The vertical spacing engine has been drastically changed, making it much more flexible and easier to control.
Automatic beaming is now more flexible, and beam collisions are avoided.

A full list of new features is given in:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/changes/index.html

Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.14 was brought to you by...

Main development team:

Trevor Daniels, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave.

Programming contributors:

Sven Axelsson, Pál Benkő, Bertrand Bordage, Frédéric Bron, Peter Chubb, Hajo Dezelski, Richard Gay, Keith OHara, Andrew Hawryluk, Christian Hitz, Marc Hohl, Henning Hraban Ramm, Ian Hulin, Michael Käppler, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan, Thomas Morgan, Benjamin Peterson, Nathan Reed, Julien Rioux, Boris Shingarov, Patrick Schmidt, Owen Tuz, Jan Warchoł, Andrew Wilson, Rodolfo Zitellini.

Font contributors:

Keith OHara, Marc Hohl, Alexander Kobel, Carsten Steger.

Documentation contributors:

Colin Campbell, Andrew Hawryluk, James Lowe, Mike Moral, Ralph Palmer, David Pounder, Patrick Schmidt.

Bug squad:

James E. Bailey, Colin Campbell, Phil Holmes, Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer, Kieren MacMillan, Dmytro O. Redchuk.

Binaries support contributors:

Christian Hitz.

Translation contributors:

Federico Bruni, Dénes Harmath, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Tineke de Munnik, Till Paala, Ralf Wildenhues, Yoshiki Sawada.

Release candidate 7 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.63 released! May 30, 2011

LilyPond 2.13.63 is out; this is the seventh release candidate of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be on June 6, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.13.62 released! May 24, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.62. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

Please note that this is not the next release candidate, due to a few remaining Critical bugs.

LilyPond 2.13.61 released! May 1, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.61. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

Please note that this is not the next release candidate, due to a few remaining Critical bugs.

LilyPond 2.13.60 released! April 16, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.60. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

Please note that this is not the next release candidate, due to a few remaining Critical bugs.

Linux Journal Magazine article - April 2011

Linux Magazine publishes an article in the May 2011 issue titled Projects on the Move. It is an introduction to MuseScore, LilyPond and Chordii. Author Carla Schroder states „LilyPond is driven from the command line, but don’t let the lack of a GUI scare you away; LilyPond is user-friendly and easy to learn“, and provides a hands-on example.

LilyPond 2.13.59 released! April 10, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.59. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

Please note that this is not the next release candidate, due to a few remaining Critical bugs.

Release candidate 6 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.58 released! April 7, 2011

LilyPond 2.13.58 is out; this is the sixth release candidate of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be on April 14, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

Release candidate 5 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.57 released! April 3, 2011

LilyPond 2.13.57 is out; this is the fifth release candidate of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be on April 10, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

Release candidate 4 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.56 released! Mar 29, 2011

LilyPond 2.13.56 is out; this is the fourth release candidate of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be on April 5, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.13.55 released! Mar 22, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.55. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

Please note that this is not the fourth release candidate, due to a few remaining Critical bugs.

Release candidate 3 withdrawn Mar 15, 2011

We have discovered a regression since 2.12.3, so lilypond 2.13.54 is no longer a candidate for the 2.14.0 release. However, please continue testing it – we would like to discover (and fix!) any more regressions as soon as possible. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

Release candidate 3 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.54 released! Mar 13, 2011

LilyPond 2.13.54 is out; this is the third release candidate of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be on March 27, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.13.53 released! Mar 6, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.53. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

Please note that this is not the third release candidate, due to a few remaining Critical bugs.

LilyPond 2.13.52 released! Mar 1, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.52. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

Please note that this is not the third release candidate, due to a few remaining Critical bugs.

LilyPond 2.13.51 released! Feb 22, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.51. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

Please note that this is not the third release candidate, due to a few remaining Critical bugs.

LilyPond 2.13.50 released! Feb 13, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.50. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.

Please note that this is not the third release candidate. Due to a number of untested changes to our build process, we cannot be at all confident about the quality of this release.

New Chinese and Czech translations of the web page! Feb 11,2011

Two new languages are added to our web page: Chinese by Ben Luo, and Czech by Pavel Fric. It is a work in progress but they are fully functional. That makes ten languages to choose from!

Release candidate 2 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.49 released! Feb 9, 2011

LilyPond 2.13.49 is out; this is the second release candidate of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be on Feb 23, 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.13.48 released! Feb 5, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.48. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond 2.13.47 released! Jan 28, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.47. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

Release candidate 1 withdrawn Jan 13, 2011

We have discovered a regression since 2.12.3, so lilypond 2.13.46 is no longer a candidate for the 2.14.0 release. However, please continue testing it – we would like to discover (and fix!) any more regressions as soon as possible. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

Release candidate 1 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.46 released! Jan 12, 2011

LilyPond 2.13.46 is out; this is the first release candidate of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.14.0 release will be on 26 Jan 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.13.45 released! Jan 3, 2011

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.45. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

Beta test three of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.44 released! Dec 25, 2010

LilyPond 2.13.44 is out; this is the third beta test of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There is still one Critical problem with this release: in one case, the vertical spacing is much too compressed. If you decide to test this version, do not be surprised to discover problems; just send us polite Fehlerberichte.

Beta test two of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.43 released! Dec 14, 2010

LilyPond 2.13.43 is out; this is the second beta test of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

LilyPond 2.13.42 released! Dec 8, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.42. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

Please note that this is not the second beta test. Due to a number of untested changes to our build process, we cannot be at all confident about the quality of this release.

LilyPond 2.13.41 released! Dec 4, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.41. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

Please note that this is not the second beta test. Due to a number of untested changes to our build process, we cannot be at all confident about the quality of this release.

LilyPond 2.13.40 released! Nov 21, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.40. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

Please note that this is not the second beta test. Due to a number of untested changes to our build process, we cannot be at all confident about the quality of this release.

Beta test one of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.39 released! Nov 15, 2010

LilyPond 2.13.39 is out; this is the first beta test of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are still some Critical problems with this release: the vertical spacing is suspicious in two cases, and lilypond can crash with some odd input. If you decide to test 2.13.39, do not be surprised to discover problems; just send us polite Fehlerberichte.

The LilyPond Report #22. Nov 3, 2010

The LilyPond Report is back, with some surprises and exciting news for the whole LilyPond community! To be found in this issue is an up-to-date, complete list of all LilyPond mailing lists and forums around the world. Also, for the very first time our special guest today is LilyPond’s co-founder and core developer Jan Nieuwenhuizen, who has been busy these past months – read on to find out what for!

Come read LilyPond Report 22 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

Alpha test four of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.38 released! Oct 31, 2010

LilyPond 2.13.38 is out; this is the fourth alpha test of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are still some Critical problems with this release: the vertical spacing is suspicious in two cases, and lilypond can crash with some odd input. If you decide to test 2.13.38, do not be surprised to discover problems; just send us polite Fehlerberichte.

Alpha test three of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.37 released! Oct 25, 2010

LilyPond 2.13.37 is out; this is the third alpha test of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

There are still some Critical problems with this release: the vertical spacing is suspicious in two cases, and lilypond can crash with some odd input. If you decide to test 2.13.37, do not be surprised to discover problems; just send us polite Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.13.36 released! Oct 19, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.36. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

Please note that this is not the third alpha test. Due to a number of untested changes to our build process, we cannot be at all confident about the quality of this release.

The LilyPond Report #21. Oct 3, 2010

The LilyPond Report is back, with its two „grumpy-and-fluffy“ editors! This issue mainly deals with microtonal notation in LilyPond, but does also include a how-to about running LilyPond from an USB key, not to forget the regular release news, the bug report of the Report, and some news from the frog pond!

Come read LilyPond Report 21 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

Alpha test two of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.35 released! Sep 29, 2010

LilyPond 2.13.35 is out; this is the second alpha test of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

Three known regressions against 2.12.3 still exist: Issue 1173 MetronomeMarks cannot be aligned on a note if a multi-measure rest exists in another voice, and two spacing bugs: Issue 1240 and Issue 1252. If you decide to test 2.13.35, do not be surprised to discover problems; just send us polite Fehlerberichte.

Alpha test of 2.14 – LilyPond 2.13.34 released! Sep 21, 2010

LilyPond 2.13.34 is out; this is the first alpha test of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the „Changes“ manual on the website section about Entwicklung.

One known regression against 2.12.3 still exist: Issue 1173 MetronomeMarks cannot be aligned on a note if a multi-measure rest exists in another voice, but we expect to find more. If you decide to test 2.13.34, do not be surprised to discover problems; just send us polite Fehlerberichte.

LilyPond 2.13.33 released! Sep 10, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.33. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond 2.13.32 released! Sep 3, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.32. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond Report #20. Sep 2, 2010

The LilyPond Report is back, with its two „grumpy-and-fluffy“ editors! This issue contains a review of an online notation editor using lilypond, along with the regular release news, snippet of the report, news from the frog pond, and the bug report of the report!

Come read LilyPond Report 20 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

LilyPond 2.13.31 released! Aug 24, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.31. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond 2.13.30 released! Aug 13, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.30. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond Report #19. Aug 9, 2010

The LilyPond Report is back, with its two „grumpy-and-fluffy“ editors! This issue contains some conference news, along with the regular release news, snippet of the report, news from the frog pond, and the bug report of the report!

Come read LilyPond Report 19 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

LilyPond 2.13.29 released! Aug 4, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.29. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

This release radically changes the autobeaming rules, so use extra caution and expect breakage.

LilyPond 2.13.28 released! July 13, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.28. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

This release includes some major untested changes to the windows lilypad editor. Windows users should not be using this release because it is intended for developers only, but you ignore these warnings and try it anyway, use extra caution.

LilyPond 2.13.27 released! July 5, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.27. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

Testing our new website! June 29, 2010

We’re testing our new website! For the next 24 hours, the new website will be the default website; after that, we will switch back to the old website while we examine feedback and make improvements to the new website.

Please send feedback to lilypond-user; you can find more information on our page about Kontakt.

Achtung: There are a few known problems with translations. If you are a non-English speaker, you may prefer to view the old lilypond website at: https://lilypond.org/web/

LilyPond 2.13.26 released! June 26, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.26. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond 2.13.25 released! June 20, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.25. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond 2.13.24 released! June 14, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.24. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond 2.13.23 released! June 3, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.23. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond 2.13.22 released! May 27, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.22. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond 2.13.21 released! May 12, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.21. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

This release should be of particular interest to package maintainers: we have made a few changes to the configure script and the required libraries. Barring any urgent bug reports, this is the build system and libraries that will be used for the next stable release.

LilyPond Report #18. May 11, 2010

The LilyPond Report is back, with its two „grumpy-and-fluffy“ editors! This issue will be filled with emotion and coolness, paper bags and zigzag-ending staves, plus the usual Frogs and Bugs.

Come read LilyPond Report 18 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!

LilyPond 2.13.20 released! May 5, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.20. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, a number of critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

Minor syntax change: the undocumented \cresc and \decresc have changed. In addition, the [options] for the LaTeX mode of lilypond-book now comes after the {lilypond}, following normal LaTeX practice. As always, see the Changes document for more information.

LilyPond 2.13.19 released! April 24, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.19. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. However, 11 critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond 2.13.18 released! April 16, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.18. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes, along with improved website translations. However, 14 critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond 2.13.17 released! April 2, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.17. This release includes bugfixes for 4 critical issues. However, 15 critical issues still remain, so this release is intended for developers only.

LilyPond 2.13.16 released! March 15, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.16. This release is intended for developers only, and includes the usual round of bugfixes.

LilyPond 2.13.15 released! March 4, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.15. This release is intended for developers only, and includes a few updates to the binary build process in addition to the usual round of bugfixes.

LilyPond Report #17. March 1, 2010

Yay, the Report is back, with a new team! It has been said that two heads are better than one — does it apply to newsletters as well? Read on and let us know! In this issue we’ll talk about websites and poetry, frogs and bugs, not to mention an extensive review of the Frescobaldi editor!

What are you waiting for? Come read LilyPond Report 17 now!

LilyPond 2.13.14 released! February 27, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.14. This release is intended for developers only, and includes a large translation update in addition to the usual round of bugfixes.

LilyPond 2.13.13 released! February 13, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.13. This release is intended for developers only, and fixes various problems with documentation build system as well as adding an output-preview-framework for our SVG backend. In addition, the binaries are now approximately 6 megabytes smaller.

LilyPond 2.13.12 released! February 2, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.12. This release is intended for developers only, and brings more stability and fewer bugs to the build system and Contributor’s Guide.

LilyPond 2.13.11 released! January 16, 2010

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.11. This release is intended for developers only, and brings a number of improvements to the build system, Contributor’s Guide, and fixes 4 critical regressions against earlier versions.

LilyPond 2.13.10 released! December 31, 2009

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.13.10. This release is intended for developers only, and brings a number of improvements such as predictable regression test output filenames and English names for feta filenames.

LilyPond 2.12.3 released! December 20, 2009

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.12.3. This version contains the long-awaited fix for our GUI on MacOS X 10.5 and 10.6. In addition to the GUI fixes, this version contains dozens of bugfixes backported from the unstable development version.

We recommend that all users upgrade to this version. This is the last planned release in the 2.12 stable series; development now shifts towards the upcoming 2.14 series.

LilyPond 2.13.9 released! December 12, 2009

LilyPond 2.13.9 is now out. From 2.13.9 onwards, LilyPond is licensed under the GNU GPL v3+ for code, and the GNU FDL 1.3+ for documentation. In addition to the usual round of bugfixes, this release adds a shortcut for repeated chords.

Please note that 2.13 is an unstable development branch; normal users should continue to use 2.12.

New Website! October 3, 2009

As you can see, we have a new website design. Many thanks to texi2html and CSS for being so flexible!

LilyPond Report #16. September 6, 2009

The LilyPond Report is back! This short, informal opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community. Read issue 16 now!

LilyPond 2.13.3. July 2, 2009

This unstable release contains working menus in OSX 10.5; many thanks to Christian Hitz for fixing this long-standing problem! This release also contains numerous other bugfixes and features such as ties with variable thickness, partially dashed slurs, and eyeglasses.
We are planning another 2.12 release in the next week or two, which will include the menu fixes for OSX 10.5. Normal users may wish to wait for this release rather than using an unstable release.
Änderungen, Entwicklung.

A LilyPond weboldala magyarul. May 22, 2009

Elkészült a lilypond.org nagy részének magyar fordítása a LilyPond honosítási projekt első lépéseként. A projekt célja a LilyPond szabad kottaszedő szoftver minél széleskörűbben elérhetővé tétele a magyar felhasználók számára a teljes weboldal és dokumentáció lefordítása révén. A teljes dokumentáció lefordításához közreműködőket keresünk. Ha részt vennél a honosításban, küldj egy e-mailt a harmathdenes AT gmail.com címre!
Harmath Dénes, a LilyPond honosítási projekt vezetője

The LilyPond Report #15. May 18, 2009

The LilyPond Report is a short, informal opinion column about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community. Follow this link to read the full issue...

The LilyPond Report #14. April 13, 2009

The LilyPond Report is back, on a new website! 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 2.12.2 and 2.13.0 — March 21, 2009

As a very belated announcement, the stable version of LilyPond is now 2.12.2, and the next development version has begun with 2.13.0.

LilyPond 2.12.0 „Rune“ — December 27, 2008

A new stable release of LilyPond is available.
Announcement, Änderungen, 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, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

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.
Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.63. October 29, 2008

LilyPond 2.11.63 is available. This release has lots of updates to the documentation and translations. Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.62 – Release Candidate. October 11, 2008

LilyPond 2.11.62 is available. This is is one of the last releases before 2.12, so testing it is encouraged. In addition to a bugfix in \tempo command, this release has lot of updates to Spanish and German documentation translations, and the stylesheet for HTML documentation has been improved.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

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, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

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. Alte Downloads.

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. Alte Downloads.

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, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.57 available. August 27, 2008

LilyPond 2.11.57 is out. This release adds support for harp pedal diagrams, contributed by Reinhold Kainhofer, and some changes in markup command names have been made.
Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.56 available. August 17, 2008

LilyPond 2.11.56 is out. This release features transposable fret diagrams, contributed by Carl Sorensen. Translations status pages are now available from the documentation start page. Two predefined commands \pointAndClickOn, \pointAndClickOff have also been added.
Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.55 available. August 6, 2008

LilyPond 2.11.55 is out. This release fixes several bugs, and for octavation brackets set-octavation has been replaced by a more user-friendly command, \ottava.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.54 available. July 30, 2008

LilyPond 2.11.54 is out. This release fixes a bug in tie formatting following a line break, and changes the behavior of short-indent so that short instrument names are no longer indented in the margin.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.53 available. July 23, 2008

LilyPond 2.11.53 is out. This release fixes a lot of bugs.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.52 available. July 14, 2008

Release 2.11.52 fixes wrong offset of a bar number when it follows a breath mark, and syntax changes made in recent development releases are now fully listed on the News page.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.51 available. July 8, 2008

Release 2.11.51 has a couple of bugfixes, and a lot of changes in predefined command names. Fret diagrams formatting has been improved by Carl Sorensen, it is now controlled by fret-diagram-details property.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.50 available. July 2, 2008

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

The LilyPond Report #13. June 23, 2008

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. June 16, 2008

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. June 12, 2008

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

LilyPond 2.11.48 released. June 9, 2008

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

The LilyPond Report #11. June 9, 2008

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. June 2, 2008

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. May 28, 2008

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

LilyPond 2.11.46 available. May 22, 2008

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

RSS feed - May 21, 2008

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 info mailing list (see Kontakt) is still used to announce releases and special events.

The LilyPond Report #9. May 05, 2008

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. April 26, 2008

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.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.44 available. April 14, 2008

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

lilypond.org日本語訳 (lilypond.org Japanese translation). 2008年4月8日 (April 4, 2008)

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. March 31, 2008

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, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.42 available. March 9, 2008

Release 2.11.42 is out. It fixes some formatting and spacing bugs.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

Comparison of music engraving with Finale and LilyPond. February 25, 2008

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. February 25, 2008

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, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.37 available. January 3, 2008

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

LilyPond 2.11.36 available. December 13, 2007

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, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.33 and 2.11.33 available. September 20, 2007

Release 2.11.33 is now available.
Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.32 available. September 2, 2007

Release 2.11.32 is now available.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.31 available. August 31, 2007

Release 2.11.31 is now available. It has more bugfixes, updates for MusicXML import and lots of updates for the translations.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.30 available. August 20, 2007

Release 2.11.30 is now available. It has various bugfixes among others in the new spacing code, MusicXML import and lots of updates for the translations.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.29 and 2.11.29 available. August 11, 2007

Release 2.11.29 is now available. 2.10.29 has a few small fixes. 2.11.29 has several bugfixes, among others in the new spacing code, and lots of updates for the translations.
Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.28 for FreeBSD x86_64. August 10, 2007

Release 2.11.28 is now available as a binary installer for FreeBSD x86_64. Download the installer and do sh lilypond-2.11.28-1.freebsd-64.sh in a command window.

LilyPond 2.11.28 available - July 25, 2007

Release 2.11.28 has several updates to the manual and its translations, an plethora of bugfixes and a complete cleanup of the spacing engine code.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.26 available - June 8, 2007

Release 2.11.26 supports page markers, e.g., for use in tables-of-contents. In addition, it fixes a number of bugs. Enjoy!
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.25 and 2.11.25 available - May 20, 2007

Release 2.11.25 has support for toplevel page breaking commands, and page breaking as a whole has been sped up significantly. Enjoy!
Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.23 and 2.11.23 available - May 1, 2007

This has lots of bugfixes.
Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Alte Downloads.

Übersetzung der Dokumentation - 10. April 2007

Die Kapitel 1-5 (der Abschnitt für Anfänger) des LilyPond-Benutzerhandbuchs sind auf deutsch übersetzt — sie sind erhältlich für die Änderungen online und Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.22 available - April 10, 2007

This release has updates of the dot collision code.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.21 available - March 24, 2007

This release has some documentation updates.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

Traduction de la documentation en français - 25 février 2007

Les chapitres 1 à 4 et 6 du manuel de l’utilisateur sont désormais traduits, et disponibles en ligne — version 2.10, version 2.11. Les traductions sont également incluses dans la documentation téléchargeable.

LilyPond 2.10.20 and 2.11.20 available - February 25, 2007

This release fixes many bugs.
Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.19 and 2.11.19 available - February 18, 2007

This release fixes many bugs.
Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.18 available - February 12, 2007

This release fixes still more bugs, and included singing support through festival contributed by Milan Zamazal.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.17 available - February 9, 2007

This release fixes still more bugs.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.16 and 2.11.16 available - February 4, 2007

This release fixes many bugs. (Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.10.15 and 2.11.15 available - February 1, 2007

This release will stretch piano staves on a system-by-system basis and add a few glyphs: a black harmonic note head and the slashed mirrored flat.
Bugfixes 2.10, Bugfixes 2.11, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.14 and 2.11.14 available - January 26, 2007

This release has a rewrite of the line-spanner code, responsible for among other glissandi and text-crescendos, making them more flexible.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads

LilyPond 2.10.13 and 2.11.13 available - January 17, 2007

This release fixes a few minor but irritating bugs. In addition, the 2.11 release has updates of the tutorial.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.12 available - January 17, 2007

This release fixes lots of bugs. In particular, the tie formatting has been further improved, and memory usage has been improved enormously.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.12 available - January 17, 2007

This release mirrors 2.11.12. Notably, it has the same memory usage improvements.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.11 available - January 12, 2007

This release mostly has the same fixes as 2.11.11.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.11 available - January 11, 2007

This release has further fixes for popular bugs. Timing of the MIDI output won’t get confused by tuplets and grace notes anymore. Some fat has also been trimmed of the skyline code performance.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.10 available - January 8, 2007

LilyPond 2.11.10 has further review of the test-suite, performance and code coverage. This brought to light several problems that were fixed. Notably, 2.11.10 fixes lots of regressions in optical correction spacing and MIDI dynamics. Also, this version is 20 to 50 % faster than previous 2.11 releases.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.10 available - January 8, 2007

This release fixes several popular bugs, among others: MIDI files that go silent after (de)crescendi, and tuplets problems with quoting and part-combining.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.9 and 2.10.9 available - January 3, 2007

This release has a couple of bugfixes, and —in 2.11.9— further improvements in the regression test suite
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.8 and 2.10.8 available - January 3, 2007

New! Improved! With even more bugfixes!
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

`lilypond.org` auf deutsch - 31. Dezember 2006

Die LilyPond-Webseiten sind jetzt auch auf deutsch übersetzt!

`lilypond.org` en español - December 29, 2006

¡Ya está disponible la versión en español del sitio web de LilyPond!

LilyPond 2.11.7 and 2.10.7 available - January 1, 2007

New! Improved! With even more bugfixes!
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.6 available - December 30, 2006

This release supports arbitrary fractional alterations, allowing music with different microtonal conventions to be typeset.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.6 available - December 30, 2006

New! Improved! With even more bugfixes!
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.5 available - December 24, 2006

These releases complete the translation infrastructure for Documentation.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.5 available - December 24, 2006

New! Improved! With even more bugfixes!
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.4 available - December 21, 2006

The vertical spacing improvements that were introduced in 2.11.0 now work within a system as well as between systems.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.3 available - December 19, 2006

This release has graphical test results and several website build improvements.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.3 available - December 19, 2006

This release fixes several bugs.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LinuxPPC binaries available! - December 19, 2006

From now on, our GUB binary builds include support for Linux/PPC. (Alte Downloads)

Traduction du tutoriel en français. December 13, 2006

Fruit du travail d’une équipe de traducteurs, le tutoriel en français est maintenant disponible en ligne. Version 2.10, Version 2.11.

LilyPond 2.11.2 available - December 12, 2006

This release supports glissandi and harmonics in tablature.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.2 available - December 12, 2006

A new stable release of LilyPond is available.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.1 available - December 4, 2006

This release has improved support for horizontal spacing.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.10.1 available - December 3, 2006

A new stable release of LilyPond is available.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.11.0 available - November 27, 2006

This release has improved support for vertical spacing. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.10.0 available - November 11, 2006

A new stable release of LilyPond is available. (Announcement, Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

GIT repository online - November 11, 2006

LilyPond development has moved over its source code to GIT, the fast version control system. Check out our repository at gnu.org.

LilyPond 2.9.29 available - November 5, 2006

This release has many more bugfixes.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.9.28 available - November 3, 2006

This release has many more bugfixes.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.9.27 available - October 28, 2006

This release has a new FretBoards context, and some further bugfixes.
Bugfixes, Änderungen, Alte Downloads.

Music streams thesis available - October 21, 2006

The last months, Erik Sandberg has been overhauling the internals of Lily. This change introduces a new intermediate format, Music Streams, which will make it easier get music data out of LilyPond. A copy of the thesis is now available from lilypond.org (Veröffentlichungen).

LilyPond 2.9.26 available - October 20, 2006

This release has further bugfixes.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.9.25 available - October 18, 2006

This release has more bugfixes; from now on, binaries are also available for x86/64.
Bugfixes, Alte Downloads.

LilyPond 2.9.24 available - October 15, 2006

This release has support for right hand guitar fingerings, and offers some bugfixes. (Änderungen, Bugfixes, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.23 available - October 12, 2006

This release cuts fragments of EPS directly from your finished score, and makes it easier to insert ties into lyrics. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.22 available - October 9, 2006

Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2.10! (Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.21 available - October 4, 2006

Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2.10! (Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.20 available - October 3, 2006

Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2.10! (Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.17 available - September 2, 2006

This release fixes many bugs. Among others, MacOS X QuickTime now honors tempo changes are in the MIDI output. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.16 available - August 25, 2006

In this release, chords may be partially tied and lyric extenders have tunable padding. Moreover, many bugs were fixed (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.15 available - August 20, 2006

This releases fixes many bugs in the 2.9.14 release. (Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.8.6 available - August 8, 2006

This release contains a few minor bugfixes; the source tarball is also available. (Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.14 available - August 4, 2006

This release supports instrument name changes, dotted barlines and better spacing for floating grace notes. In addition, it contains ongoing work by Erik Sandberg to extend the interpretation phase with stream support. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.13 available - July 23, 2006

This release supports doits and falls, and more tuning options for grace note spacing and tuplet brackets. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.12 available - July 18, 2006

This release supports pdftex for lilypond-book, and uses pdfTeX for generating manuals, so page numbers and references are now clickable. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.11 available - July 12, 2006

This release wraps improvements of the last two weeks. As a new feature, it supports tunable tuplet number formatting for nested tuplets. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.10 available - June 15, 2006

This releases fixes a couple of bugs in 2.9.9. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.9 available - June 15, 2006

This releases fixes many bugs in 2.9.8 and earlier. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.8 available - June 6, 2006

2.9.8 has support for different spacing sections within a single score, and better infrastructure for automated regression testing. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.8.4 available - June 4, 2006

2.8.4 fixes some minor bugs, and includes a backport of the infrastructure for automated regression testing. (Alte Downloads)

First test results available - June 4, 2006

After a week of frantic tweaking, the first automated testing results are available. You can now see in full glory what features are broken in the development release

LilyPond 2.9.7 available - May 30, 2006

2.9.7 has improvements in the formatting for figured bass, and includes a new framework for detecting bugs earlier, which will make the development releases even better

LilyPond 2.9.6 available - May 24, 2006

This release has new features in beam formatting: beams may now be put on single stems, and obey the beatGrouping property. MusicXML converter. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

New essay pages! - May 22, 2006

The Automated Engraving essay has been updated with material from the FISL talk, with pages on modeling notation and algorithms for esthetics. Happy reading!

LilyPond 2.9.5 available - May 17, 2006

This release supports object rotation, hairpins with circled tips, hairpins that run to barlines before notes and improvements in the MusicXML converter. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.4 available - May 12, 2006

This release has support for feathered beaming, and note head styles in the markup \note command. In addition, it has a lot of updates of the manual and a clean up of the spring spacer. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.8.2 available - May 12, 2006

This release has fixes for minor bugs and compilation issues. (Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.3 is out! - May 7, 2006

This new release has lots of updates of the manual, courtesy Graham and the contributors of the mailing. It handles formatting for ties in arpegiated chords better (feature sponsored by Steve Doonan), it has al niente hairpins, courtesy of Erlend Aasland, and some cleanups of the PostScript output, courtesy David Feuer. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

FISL7.0 slides available - April 22, 2006

The slides for Han-Wen’s talk at FISL 7 are now online. (Veröffentlichungen)

LilyPond 2.8.1 is out! - April 3, 2006

Important bugfixes include CJK font handling and a Darwin/x86 port. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.9.1 is out! - April 3, 2006

It’s mostly a bugfix release, and it’s almoste the same as 2.8.1. This release mainly fixes problems with CJK font loading. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond on MacOS X/Intel - March 31, 2006

LilyPond now also runs on Intel based macs, offering a 400% speedup over the emulated PowerPC binaries. (Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.8.0 is out! - March 22, 2006

Version 2.8 is here! Read the release announcement. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.39 is out - March 17, 2006

This release has even more bug fixes. Please test before 2.8 is released. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.38 is out - March 12, 2006

This is likely to be the last release candidate before we release 2.8, so report any bugs that you might find. New attractions include: lilypond postscript files now work with GSView, cut & pasting lily code from PDF files should now work, and spacing fixes for multi-measure rests. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.37 is out - March 4, 2006

This release has more bug fixes. Please help us by testing it! (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.36 is out - February 24, 2006

This is another release candidate for 2.8. It has lots of bug fixes and polishes to the documentation. It also contains support for creating ties that are only on their right side connected to note heads, which is handy for repeats (feature sponsored by Steve Doonan). The documentation suite can now be downloaded as a separate tarball from lilypond.org. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.35 is out - February 19, 2006

This release has lots of bugs fixes. The plan is to release 2.8 at the end of this month, so bug reports are very welcome. By definition a bug is release critical if it wasn’t present in version 2.6. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.34 is out - February 16, 2006

This release has a bunch of bugfixes, and new features. Newly created contexts may also be named with \new Voice = "alto". Thicknesses of tie and slurs may be tuned separately for the endings and the middle part. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.33 is out - February 10, 2006

Items directly connected with a music input element may be parenthesized, for example,

{
  c4 -\parenthesize -.
  <d \parenthesize fis a>
}

This feature was sponsored by Ramana Kumar. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.32 is out - February 7, 2006

This release contains some syntax changes: words inside the \paper and \layout block are henceforth written with dashes, for instance:

{
  \layout {
    ragged-right = ##t
  }
}

Furthermore, in this release, we have dropped some legacy code from our library. Now, lily uses standard C++ strings and the STL vector. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.31 is out - February 2, 2006

This release fixes a load of bugs, and has some internal cleanups. Exported C++ members are now named ly:class-name::function-name in Scheme instead of Class_name::function_name. We are now using C++ vectors and strings instead of our own. The Linux/FreeBSD builds now include wrappers for Python scripts too, so you can run convert-ly and midi2ly. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.30 is out - January 30, 2006

This release has a few bug fixes, like the solfa note head shape and collisions, the \epsfile command, and in getting No. ligature in normal words. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.29 is out - January 27, 2006

This release has the following new features. Alignments of staves may be tuned per system (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca), individual systems may be positioned manually (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca and Nicolas Sceaux), a linebreaking configuration can now be saved as a ‘.ly’ file automatically. This allows vertical alignments to be stretched to fit pages in a second formatting run (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca and Nicolas Sceaux). (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.28 is out - January 22, 2006

This release contains numerous small fixes that were already in our GUB binaries. In addition, it has further polish for formatting of tied chords. Theses improvements were sponsored by Steve Doonan. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.27, release 4 - January 13, 2006

The fourth release of our Grand Unified Binary for 2.7.27 is available. This release uses Pango 1.11.1, which has support for ligatures and kerning. Enjoy! (Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.27, release 3 - January 12, 2006

The third release of our Grand Unified Binaries is available. This release fixes external font-support, the decompression flag for Linux. Also, we have support for FreeBSD as well! Jump to the Alte Downloads get them!

LilyPond 2.7.27 binaries are out - January 7, 2006

Starting with 2.7.26, the development team has been working on the installers. We’re proud to announce another version of these: they are now available for Linux/x86, MacOS X and Windows.

LilyPond 2.7.27 is out - January 7, 2006

This release allows you to switch staff lines on and off individually (feature sponsored by Andrea Valle). (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

Linux Journal article - January 2006

Linux Journal publishes an article on Make Stunning Schenker Graphs with GNU LilyPond. It is a in-depth but hands-on feature article with crisp LilyPond graphics.
Author Kris Shaffer remarks „GNU LilyPond generates beautiful graphics that make commercial alternatives seem second-rate.“ This article is now available on-line.

New binaries for LilyPond 2.7.26 - January 4, 2006

The Development team has been working around the clock to improve to fix the first wave bugs reported by you. The new results for MacOS and Windows are up on the Alte Downloads page. Let us know how you fare!

LilyPond 2.7.26 is out - December 31, 2005

This release has an improvement in the MusicXML importer (feature sponsored by Mark vd Borre’s Music Academy): now, staves and voices are also setup, so you can readily run LilyPond on the .ly output. The important occasion for this release is our new build environment: we have completely revamped it, which means that binaries for all platforms (including MacOS, Windows, Linux/x86, but probably FreeBSD too) will be more quickly available for download. A happy 2006 from the LilyPond Development Team! (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.25 is out - December 24, 2005

This release has various bugfixes. Also, stems on the center line now have their directions interpolated to minimize the number of direction changes (feature sponsored by Basil Crow and Mike Rolish). (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.24 is out - December 20, 2005

This release fixes a couple of bugs, but more importantly, slurs now avoid TupletNumbers, and tuplet numbers may enter the staff (feature sponsored by Trent Johnston), tuplet brackets and numbers are implemented as separate grobs, TupletBracket and TupletNumber (rewrite sponsored by Trent Johnston), string arguments for music functions may be specified without # marks. This allows syntactical constructs (like \clef and \bar) to be expressed in generic music functions. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.23 is out - December 19, 2005

This release has the following new features:

Ties in chords are also formatted using score based formatting. This reduces the number of collisions for ties in chords (feature sponsored by Steve Doonan).
With the \tweak music function, layout objects that are directly connected to input may be tuned easily (feature sponsored by Sean Reed and Bertalan Fodor).
Generic music functions may now also be used on articulations and chord elements (feature sponsored by Sean Reed and Bertalan Fodor).
Better support for MusicXML, more options for spacing Lyrics; it is now possible to separately specify minimum distances for normal and hyphenated syllables (features sponsored by Mark van den Borre and Bertalan Fodor.

(Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.22 is out - December 9, 2005

This release has better support for MusicXML: it also supports ties, beams and editorial accidentals. It also has more options for spacing Lyrics; it is now possible to separately specify minimum distances for normal and hyphenated syllables. These features were sponsored by Mark van den Borre and Bertalan Fodor. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.21 is out - December 5, 2005

Saint Nicholas brings you ... a MusicXML convertor for LilyPond! The convertor is basic, but working. Check out the LilyPond Software Design pages for MusicXML features that can be sponsored.

LilyPond 2.7.20 is out - December 2, 2005

This release contains the following improvements: Texts set in a TrueType font are now kerned. Using the TeX no longer requires linking or dynamically opening the kpathsea library, making the backend more easily usable on various systems (feature sponsored by Christian Ebert of Black Trash Productions). (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.6.5 is out - December 1, 2005

This release updates the bugreporting address and reorganizes the documentation tree. (Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.19 is out - November 26, 2005

This version contains a few bugfixes, and now allows the type of brackets in system start bracket hierarchies to be specified. Also, the horizontal alignment of rehearsal marks may be changed: marks can be put on key signatures, clefs, time signatures, etc. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.18 is out - November 21, 2005

This version features nestable system start delimiters, like bracket, brace. It also adds "square" line bracket (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca). It also has refactored routines for tie formatting. This will make it easier to get better tie formatting for chords (feature sponsored by Steve Doonan). It also has a few bug fixes. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.17 is out - November 17, 2005

This version has refactored routines for tie formatting. This will make it easier to get better tie formatting for chords (feature sponsored by Steve Doonan). It also has a few bug fixes. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.16 is out - November 11, 2005

This release fixes a large number of bugs. Please upgrade before reporting bugs in the 2.7 series. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.15 is out - November 3, 2005

This release has another massive cleanup of the backend. Each grob property may also be a "grob closure". This means that it is possible to combine functions. Calculation of extent and offset of grob is now controlled via the ‘X-extent’, ‘Y-extent’, ‘X-offset’ and ‘Y-offset’ properties. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.14 is out - October 23, 2005

This release has more cleanup in the layout-engine. Now, properties that have Procedure values are thought to be procedures that compute said property, i.e.

\override Beam #'direction = #(lambda (grob)
(if (> (random 10) 5) UP DOWN))

will set a random direction for beams. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.13 is out - October 18, 2005

This release features slashed numerals, plus signs and interruptible extender lines for figured bass. Merging of Figured bass lines has been made switchable with the figuredBassCenterContinuations property. For each grob, a subproperty in ‘callbacks’ property defines the procedure which computes it. This is major internal cleanup, which also provides advanced tweakability for power users. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.6.4 is out - October 11, 2005

This release fixes a few minor problems with the stable series. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.12 is out - October 07, 2005

It features more annotations for the page layout engine and some more sponsored features. Beamlets may stick out of the side of beams (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca); new support for figured bass with support for continuation lines and tuning of figures, brackets, and alignments (feature sponsored by Trent Johnston); vertical alignments of staves can now be tuned easily for individual systems (feature sponsored by Nicolas Sceaux). (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.11 is out - October 02, 2005

Vertical spacing for page layout can now be tuned for each system individually (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca and Nicolas Sceaux). The slope of a stem-tremolo may be set manually (feature sponsored by Sven Axelsson). There are a number of cleanups in the handling and representation of systems, among other features and bug fixes. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.10 is out - September 13, 2005

This version adds proper support for "laissez vibrer ties", just enter \laissezVibrer after a chord. This feature was sponsored by Henrik Frisk. It also has a couple of minor bugfixes. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.9 is out - September 5, 2005

This is mainly a bugfix release. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

Traduction française du site - September 03, 2005

Grâce à l’équipe des traducteurs, de nombreuses pages du site sont maintenant disponibles en français, notamment l’essai sur la gravure musicale.

LilyPond 2.7.8 is out - August 29, 2005

This release has support for right-to-left text formatting in markup commands (sponsored by Aaron Mehl). In addition, it fixes a great number of bugs, among others, support for writing MIDI files. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

Article in ‘De Standaard’ - August 20, 2005

The Belgian newspaper De Standaard investigates what drives Free Software authors in an article titled Delen van KENNIS zonder WINSTBEJAG (Non-profit sharing of knowledge) using LilyPond as an example. This marks LilyPond’s first appearance in mainstream printed press.

LilyPond 2.7.7 is out - August 22, 2005

This release has a rewriting of tie formatting which was sponsored by Bertalan Fodor, Jay Hamilton, Kieren MacMillan, Steve Doonan, Trevor Baca, and Vicente Solsona Dellá. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.6 is out - August 19, 2005

This release adds support for numbered percent repeats, a feature sponsored by Yoshinobu Ishizaki. It also has bugfixes for clashes between slurs and symbols, like fingers dynamic signs. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.5 is out - August 16, 2005

Lily 2.7.5 has a large number of bugfixes, among others, in slur formatting, spacing, rest collisions and tuplet bracket formatting. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.4 is out - August 7, 2005

LilyPond 2.7.4 has support for proportional notation, where the space for a note is proportional to the time it takes. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.6.3 is out - August 4, 2005

This release fixes a memory corruption bug that was triggered by \override’ing Beam settings. (Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.6.2 is out - August 2, 2005

This release has a few bugfixes, among them: the autopackage will run in more platforms, LilyPond will be much quicker for large lilypond-book documents, and the up and down Fa note heads for shaped heads have been swapped. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.3 is out - July 25, 2005

LilyPond 2.7.3 has improvements in performance which should result in faster operations (15 to 20 percent). It also contains the new "\displayLilyMusic" function. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7.2 is out - July 21, 2005

LilyPond 2.7.2 has support for suggested accidentals for musica ficta notation, easy entry for lyric melismata and improvements for quicker entry of scores. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.6 released - June 27, 2005

Version 2.6 is the latest stable release of LilyPond. It now installs in a snap on Windows, MacOS X, and any version of Linux (x86). Get up and running in minutes! Pango text formatting lets you print Unicode lyrics in your favorite script and font. Create SVG files, and edit them in Inkscape. (Announcement, Alte Downloads, Änderungen)

LilyPond 2.7.1 is out - July 20, 2005

LilyPond 2.7.1 has no user-visible changes. However, due to restructuring „under the hood“, this version will be 10 to 20 % faster. (Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.6.1 is out - July 11, 2005

This version fixes a few minor bugs found in 2.6.0, and also works on DOS-based Windows versions. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

LilyPond 2.7 is out - July 9, 2005

LilyPond 2.7.0 is out. It has support for paragraph text and pitched trill notation. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

2.5.31 released - June 22, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.32 is now available for download (binaries for Fedora + MacOS only). It has a few very minor bugfixes, and a rewrite of the TTF embedding code, which should be a lot more robust now. (Alte Downloads)

Traduction du site de LilyPond - 15 juin 2005

L’équipe des traducteurs vous présente le site de LilyPond en français. Nous travaillons sur la traduction des pages encore non traduites. Bon surf !

2.5.31 for Windows and MacOS - June 15, 2005

2.5.31 is now available for both Windows and MacOS X. The Windows version should now work with embedding TTF fonts, and the MacOS X has better help functionality. (Alte Downloads)

2.5.31 released - June 15, 2005

This release has a few bugfixes. In the MacOS X version, ClickEdit has been renamed to LilyPond, and you can now upgrade your files and compile them directly from LilyPond. (Alte Downloads)

2.5.30 released - June 10, 2005

This is (hopefully) the last Release Candidate before 2.6. Give it a good shake to find those last bugs! (Alte Downloads)

2.5.29 released - June 7, 2005

In this release the documentation also has pictures. In addition, the Mac version can also read native mac fonts (.dfonts and fonts in resource forks). (Alte Downloads)

2.5.27 released - May 31, 2005

It has a big bunch of minor bugfixes. This is another release candidate for version 2.6, which should be released within the next 2 weeks. Please send a bug report if you find a critical problem with this release. (Alte Downloads)

Windows and MacOS installers available - May 26, 2005

There are now a native, standalone installers for Windows and MacOS. They also support PDF point & click. (Alte Downloads)

2.5.26 released - May 26, 2005

This release has a couple of small bugfixes.

2.5.25 released - May 20, 2005

This release has many small bugfixes and updates to the documentation. (Alte Downloads)

2.5.24 released - May 12, 2005

2.5.24 fixes a bunch of bugs; in particular, chord symbols (such as slashed o) should now work on all platforms. This release has a new feature: it is now possible to make staves appear in a different order from the order that they were defined. (Alte Downloads)

2.5.23 released - May 6, 2005

This release has a couple of small bugfixes, and a new feature. It is now possible to start and stop the StaffSymbol, during a piece of music, by doing \stopStaff \startStaff. This can be used to produce Ossia staves. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

2.5.22 released - May 3, 2005

2.5.22 is a bugfix release. The most visible improvement is in the PDF : this release will produce smaller PDF files, with symbols that look better on screen. (Alte Downloads)

April 25, 2005 - 2.5.21 released!

2.5.21 has more bugfixes. It also has support for "grid lines", bar like vertical line, which are aligned with the notes. The auto-beam engraver was rewritten, so it also works with irregular time signatures like 5/8. (Änderungen, Alte Downloads)

April 18, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.20 has lots of bugfixes, in particular, MIDI files of multi-movement pieces don’t overwrite each other. Version 2.5.20 also supports putting arrows on lines, such as glissandi. More details are in the the Änderungen file, or go straight to Alte Downloads.

April 15, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.19 was released. The command ‘\epsfile’ allows inclusion of EPS graphics into markup texts and the music function ‘\musicDisplay’ will display a music expression as indented Scheme code. Take a look at the Änderungen file and Alte Downloads.

April 6, 2005

2.5.18 is a bugfix release. It has many small cleanups in the web-based documentation, and many small cleanups all over the place. Alte Downloads

March 31, 2005

2.5.17 is out. This release features many small bugfixes. In addition, it has support for string number notation for guitar. This feature was sponsored by Gunther Strube. Alte Downloads

March 20, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.16 is out. This release fixes a few minor but irritating errors. A Fedora Core 3 binary is also available. Alte Downloads

March 14, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.15 is out. This release has clean ups in the SVG output, and now uses the LilyPond number font for time signatures. It is now possible to add text before and after music. This can be used to add verses after a music. Take a look at the Änderungen file and Alte Downloads!

March 7, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.14 is out. It is now possible (and in fact, encouraged), to build LilyPond either without the Kpathsea TeX library or with the Kpathsea dynamically loaded, but only for the -btex backend. This means that packages do not have to depend on TeX anymore. With this, the Windows download size will go down significantly. Take a look at the Änderungen file and download Alte Downloads!

March 7, 2005

LilyPond 2.4.5 is out. This release backports the tieWaitForNote feature and has support for tetex-3.0. Alte Downloads

February 28, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.13 is available for Fedora Core 3. You need to install Ghostscript 8.15rc3. Unfortunately, this version of Ghostscript lacks the IJS dynamic library, which means that it will conflict with the gimp-print package. You may install it with –nodeps. Use at your own risk.

February 28, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.13 is out. This release has Point and click support for PDF output. You can read more about it here. Take a look at the Änderungen file and download Alte Downloads!

February 26, 2005

The LilyPond Snippet Repository (LSR) is a searchable database of LilyPond code snippets. You can add snippets too, so join the LSR project, and contribute creative ideas for using LilyPond.

February 21, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.12 is out. The big news is that this release supports TrueType fonts. This means that it is now possible to use all fonts available via FontConfig. Also, arpeggios may be written out using ties and individual objects may have colors! Take a look at the Änderungen file and Alte Downloads!

February 4, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.11 is out. In this release, foreign character sets are now supported in lilypond-book too, and it is possible to put system separators between systems. Alte Downloads!

January 31, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.10 is out. This release sports as new EPS backend, based on the PS backend. This backend is used in the new and improved lilypond-book script. Alte Downloads

January 26, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.9 is out. This release fixes a couple of annoying bugs in the direct PS output for piano braces. Alte Downloads

January 16, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.8 is out. This release has many internal code cleanups. In addition, accuracy of error reporting has been improved. See the change log and Alte Downloads!

January 11, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.7 is out. This release has a completely usable Pango integration for the PS backend. The default font is Century Schoolbook from the PS font suite. It also has small updates to the tablature settings by Erlend Aasland, assorted manual updates by Graham, and an overhaul of the font code by Werner. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

January 02, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.6 was released. This is a "technology preview" release, which means that it has all kinds of nifty features, but is not actually usable for producing nicely printed scores. For this reason, an RPM of this release was not produced. The PS backend is now completely switched over to Pango/FontConfig: for -f ps, LilyPond only accepts UTF8 input, all text fonts are loaded through Pango, the TeX backend now offloads all metric computations to LaTeX, the SVG and GNOME backends are broken, most probably. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

December 28, 2004

LilyPond 2.5.5 is out. It is the first one to link against FontConfig and Pango, although it is only available in the "-f ps" output. The default output format has been changed back TeX while we stabilize the Pango/FontConfig integration. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

December 20, 2004

LilyPond 2.5.4 is out. This release has some major brainsurgery in the font handling. As of now, LilyPond loads the music fonts in OpenType font format using FreeType. This has made a lot of things simpler, including font handling for the GNOME backend and SVG backend. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

December 3, 2004

LilyPond 2.5.3 was released. A new script, ‘\espressivo’ has been added, for a combination of crescendo and decrescendo on a single note. In markups, expressions stacked with ‘\column’, ‘\center-align’, etc, are not grouped with ‘< ... >’ anymore, but with ‘{ ... }’. LilyPond will now avoid line breaks that cause long texts to stick outside of the page staff. Grace notes following a main note, used to be entered by letting the grace notes follow a skip in a parallel expression. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

November 26, 2004

LilyPond 2.5.2 was released. It has several goodies, including solfa-notation (shaped noteheads), and an easier mechanism for customizing title, footer and header layout. Don’t forget to rebuild the fonts, as they have been changed to accomodate the solfa-notation. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

November 20, 2004

LilyPond 2.5.1 is out. This is an experimental release, containing some proof-of-concept code for our graphical layout editor. You can add and remove things from the file, and the tweaks will still work, as long as the tweaked notes remain in the place (i.e., start at the same time-wise and be part of the same context). Further attractions are: the gnome backend now also draws beams and slurs, updates to the SVG backend, support for the lmodern font set for TeX, various bugfixes. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

November 12, 2004

The LilyPond development is OPEN once again! The first release of the 2.5 series has the following new Features: Positioning of slurs can now be adjusted manually, Grace notes are correctly quoted and formatted when using cue notes, Cue notes can now be created with

\cueDuring #VOICE-NAME #DIRECTION { MUSIC }

Stemlets (short stems over beamed rests) have been added. In addition, Jan hacked together some highly experimental code where you can use the mouse to drag and drop objects in the -f gnome backend. These tweaks can be saved and are applied to the PS and TeX output as well. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

November 11, 2004

LilyPond 2.4.2 is out. This release fixes a number of security problems with –safe, and adds a lot of polishing fixes. Alte Downloads

November 4, 2004

LilyPond 2.4.1 is out. This release includes a number of small fixes that were made to 2.4.0 last week. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

October 31, 2004

LilyPond 2.4.0 was just released! This new stable version has support for page-layout, completely rewritten slur formatting and many other improvements. Read about them in the Änderungen file. Alte Downloads

October 29, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.26 is out. This is another 2.4 release candidate. This release fixes a number of minor bugs, and some problems with the conversion scripts. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

October 29, 2004

2.3.25 is the final release candidate for LilyPond 2.4. Werner has been overhauling the TeX macros and lilypond-book. In addition, this release contains an important fix for raggedbottom page-layout. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

October 27, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.24 is a further polished 2.4 release candidate. This release has more improvements by Werner for the TeX backend, and a bunch of other small fixes. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

October 24, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.23 has bugfixes in the documentation, lilypond-book and –preview output. This release can be considered as a release candidate for LilyPond 2.4. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

October 10, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.22 fixes a bunch more bugs, to make 2.4 a really stable release. In addition, it renames the \paper{} block to \layout{}. The \bookpaper{} block is now called \paper{}. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

October 09, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.21 is out. It is a serious release candidate for the next stable release LilyPond. This version has a cleanup and some small formatting improvements of the slur code. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

October 02, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.20 was released. It fixes the biggest problems with encoding and the TeX backend. As a result, latin1 characters (like the german SS) show up correctly in the output once again. Also it has the usual bugfixes and updates in the documentation. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

September 29, 2004

The LilyPond development team will be present at the Free Software Bazaar of the NLUUG SANE 2004 conference today. If you are in the neighborhood, drop by for live contact with the Team or just a friendly chat. Registration is not required to attend.

September 26, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.19 is out. It’s mainly a bugfix release. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

September 20, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.18 was released. It has further improvements in the slur formatting, and a small syntax change: the mode changing commands (‘\chords’, ‘\lyrics’, etc.) have been renamed to ‘\chordmode’, ‘\lyricmode’, etc. The command ‘\chords’ is an abbreviation for \new ChordNames \chordmode ... ‘\drums’, ‘\lyrics’, ‘\chords’, ‘\figures’ function similarly. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

September 11, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.16 was released. It fixes a couple of annoying bugs, and has an important addition in the slur-formatter. Slurs that pass note heads much closer than the average distance get an extra penalty. This fixes a lot of difficult slurring cases. See input/regression/new-slur for some examples. Please consider this release as a 3.0 pre-release so try to find as many bugs as possible. A report including a small .ly example can be filed at bug-lilypond@gnu.org In this case, a bug is defined as something that the current 2.3 does worse than the latest 2.2 release. We want to be sure that no output will get uglier by upgrading to 3.0, so that once 3.0 is out, nothing will hold users back in switching. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

September 10, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.15 was released. It fixes for some gaffes with the new vertical spacing engine, has lots of documentation updates, and has support for landscape output in the direct postscript output. Also, the types of events quoted with ‘\quote’ can now be tuned with ‘quotedEventTypes’. By default, only notes and rests end up in quotes. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

September 6, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.14 was released and has exciting features! LilyPond will try to keep staves at the same distances across a page, but it will stretch distances to prevent collisions; key signature cancellations are now printed before the bar line; different voices that all use "\quote" can now refer to each other. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

August 29, 2004

LilyPond now has a Documentation Editor, Graham Percival. From now on, he will oversee that useful information flows from the mailiing list into the manual. Also, if there are unclear sections in the manual, let him know via one of the mailing lists. As a start of his career, he worked to transform the "Templates" section of the website into a readable and comprehensive chapter of the user manual. A lot of cheers for Graham!

August 29, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.13 was released. The new slur code was improved, scripts can be made to avoid slurs, by setting inside-slur to #f. It is no longer necessary to instantiate "up" and "down" staves separately when using \autochange. Jurgen Reuter refreshed the logic around mensural flags, so they are adjusted for staff lines once again. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

August 24, 2004

LilyPond 2.2.6 fixes a few minor issues, among others, the disappearing metronome mark. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

August 23, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.12 is out. This release has a lot of fixes and a new feature: there is now support for putting two slurs on chords, both above and below. This is switched on with the ‘doubleSlurs’ property. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

August 3, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.11 is out. This release basically is 2.3.10 with a few annoying bugs fixed. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

August 1, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.10 is out. This release has a major clean-up of the input/test/ directory. Many examples have been moved to the regression test or manual, and the superfluous or outdated ones have been removed. The directory has gone from 146 examples to 72 examples. That means that we’re halfway cleaning it out. Incidentally, the manual has gone from 200 to 220 pages. New features:

Running trills now have their own spanner and event. They are started and stopped with \startTrillSpan and \stopTrillSpan
There is a new markup command ‘\postscript’ that takes a string that is dumped as verbatim PostScript

Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

July 30, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.9 is out. The important change is that lilypond now once-again directly runs the binary. The old wrapper script has been renamed to lilypond-latex.py, and should only be used for legacy projects. The recommended route is either using lilypond directly (with \book, you can have multiple movements within one document), or to run lilypond-book with a LaTeX wrapper file. This release also fixes a bunch of small errors. I now consider LilyPond feature complete for a 3.0 release. Next on the TODO list is updating the manual, and after that’s done we can release 3.0. The projected date for this to happen is in about a month. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

July 23, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.8 fixes a few minor bugs in the new slur code, and has rewritten support for ledger lines. Now, in tight situations, ledger lines will be shortened so they stay separate. This also required a cleanup of the Ambitus implementation. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

July 19, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.7 was released and has new exciting features! The slur formatting has been rewritten. The new slur code works similar to the Beam formatter: scores are assigned for all esthetic components of a slur. A large number of combinations for begin and end points is then tried out. Slurs will now also take into account collisions with staff lines, scripts (like staccato and accent) and accidentals. In the LilyPond emacs mode, the ‘|’ will now display the current beat within the measure. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

July 15, 2004

LilyPond 2.2.5 was released. It has a few bug fixes from 2.3.x. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

July 11, 2004

An introductory article on LilyPond appeared on Linux Journal.

July 5, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.6 was released. This release has more updates for the Fret diagram code (thanks, Carl!), fixes a bunch of bugs, including a serious one that trashed a lot of beam formatting, and was also present in the 2.2 series. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

July 5, 2004

LilyPond 2.2.4 was released. It is mainly a bug fix release. Alte Downloads and check out the changes in the ChangeLog.

June 25, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.5 has numerous small bugfixes and cleanups, and features more work in the experimental GNOME output module. Adventurous hackers can check the instructions at scm/output-gnome.scm and try to run buildscripts/guile-gnome.sh to see what the fuss is all about. Carl Sorensen also provided us with more patches to the fret-diagram output. Check out the ChangeLog and Alte Downloads.

June 20, 2004

LilyPond 2.2.3 has a turkish translation and fixes a few minor bugs that were reported over the past month. Check out the ChangeLog for a full description and Alte Downloads.

June 13, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.4 further improves the output backends. As a result, manual page-breaks, multiple output formats and putting \score into markups now works. Check out the ChangeLog and Alte Downloads.

May 31, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.3 has many internal changes relating to the output backend (PostScript) and page-layout. In addition, it contains a few bugfixes for recently reported problems. Check out the ChangeLog and Alte Downloads.

May 31, 2004

LilyPond 2.2.2 is out. It has a number of small bugfixes, so upgrade if any of these errors concern you. Check out the ChangeLog or head straight to the Alte Downloads.

May 26, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.2 is out. This release has a lot of internal changes relating to page layout, but also sports experimental fret-diagram code. Check out the Änderungen or head straight to the Alte Downloads.

May 9, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.1 is out. This release has many new and cool features. Check out the Änderungen or head straight to the Alte Downloads.

May 4, 2004

Help LilyPond get better, and join in on LilyPond development! This call for help was posted on the mailing list a month ago, and we are still looking for a Release Meister, Code Janitor, Newsletter editor and a Writer for implementation Documentation. Of course, any other help is also welcome!

May 3, 2004

LilyPond 2.2.1 has been released. It fixes a handful of bugs. Alte Downloads.

April 17, 2004

LilyPond 2.2.0 is now available on Windows, and should find its way to the Cygwin mirrors soon.

April 12, 2004

LilyPond 2.3.0 is the first release in the 2.3 cycle. The focus for 2.3 is page layout, so instrumentalists can force parts to have page breaks at sane turning points. This release is experimental; expect things to break! More info in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads.

April 8, 2004

A French article on the new LilyPond release appeared on linuxfr.org.

April 8, 2004

Binaries for LilyPond 2.2.0 are available for MacOS X, Slackware, Mandrake and Debian Woody. Alte Downloads

April 1, 2004

LilyPond 2.2.0 is out! This new stable version has completely revamped support for for orchestral score formatting, cue notes, font size management, lyric formatting, drum notation/playback and document integration. Read about it in the announcement or skip to the Alte Downloads.

March 31, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.37 has build fixes for Cygwin and SUSE, bugfixes for part-combining and chord tremolos and even more documentation polish. This should be the final release candidate; expect only regression bugs to be fixed before 2.2. Alte Downloads.

March 30, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.36 has many fixes in the user manual. Alte Downloads.

March 28, 2004

LilyPond 2.1..35 fixes a slew of bugs, and has the raggedlast option, which causes paragraph like line breaking for scores. More info in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

March 22, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.34 fixes minor bugs, and has more rewriting. Alte Downloads.

March 21, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.33 fixes a serious bug, and a few other irritations. Alte Downloads

March 20, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.32 has more rewriting in the user manual. There is also an experimental implementation of optimal page breaking (Postscript backend only). Alte Downloads.

March 15, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.31 is out. It has fixes the alignment of bass figures and spurious dynamic warnings in MIDI. New attractions include rewritten font-selection routines. See the Änderungen and Alte Downloads.

March 14, 2004

The linuxmusician.com interview made the slashdot frontpage!.

March 11, 2004

linuxmusician.com is running an interview with Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen, the main authors of LilyPond.

March 11, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.30 has editorial fixes for the manual, and experimental support for page layout in the PostScript backend. See the Änderungen and Alte Downloads.

March 9, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.29 fixes a couple of MIDI bugs, and has experimental support for producing titles with markup.

February 29, 2004

In LilyPond 2.1.28 Scheme property functions may be used argument to set!. In addition, parts of the manual have been proofread and corrected in this release. See the Änderungen and Alte Downloads.

February 24, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.27 takes into account instrument transpositions when quoting other voices. This release also fixes a number of lyrics related bugs. See the Änderungen and Alte Downloads.

February 23, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.26 has a new, experimental feature for quoting other voices in instrumental parts. This can be used to produce cue notes. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

February 18, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.25 fixes many bugs, and changes the conventions for altering accidental rules. Alte Downloads

February 16, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.24 has a big internal rewrite. One of its practical consequences is that \with now also works with Score contexts. Further 2.1.23, which was not announced here, fixes a few bugs caused by the change of \property syntax and has updates in the Program Reference document. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

February 13, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.22 has a simplification of the \property syntax: it is shorter and more consistent now. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

February 12, 2004

In LilyPond 2.1.21, output tweaks can be done at multiple levels of the context hierarchy. In addition, it has a bunch of bugfixes, improvements in the documentation. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

February 9, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.20 has MIDI output for drums. It also sports a completely rewritten lilypond-book script, which is cleaner, shorter, and faster. It also has a large number of bugfixes. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

February 5, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.19 has rewritten support for drum notation. This release also makes some long-standing cleanups: the removal of Thread (all functionality is now moved into Voice) and Lyrics (functionality moved to LyricsVoice) context. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

February 4, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.18 is out. This release has the new part-combiner installed by default, and a similar implementation of autochange. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

February 2, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.17 is out. It adds texts (solo, a due) for the part combiner. It also reinstates the --safe option which prevents havoc by Scheme exploits. More information in the Änderungen.

January 28, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.16 is out; its main feature is that it fixes the autobeams gaffe of 2.1.15. The part-combiner has been tested successfully on larger pieces. In the near future, expect more part-combining eye-candy. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

January 26, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.15 further improves the part-combiner, and fixes many bugs, among others in pedal brackets and finger positioning. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

January 21, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.14 has the first release of the new part combiner. If you have scores that use part-combining, please consider giving it a test-run. In addition many bugs relating to mixed staff sizes have been fixed. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

January 20, 2004

The lilypond.org domain has been moved to a new server. This will result in better connectivity and more bandwidth. Due to security concerns, the new server does not offer FTP access, but only HTTP downloads.

January 20, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.13 fixes a small but nasty bug in side-positioning placement, and some bugs in tuplet, tie and accidental formatting. This release contains rudimentary work on a new part-combiner. Alte Downloads

January 19, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.12 fixes many bugs and improves formatting of ottava brackets. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

January 18, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.11 is now also available for Windows! For downloading, go here.

January 17, 2004

In 2.1.11, the mechanism for setting staff size and page is much simplified. In addition there are improvements in the notehead shape, and there is balloon help! More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

January 16, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.10 has a load of bugfixes and a shorter syntax for octave checks. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

January 13, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.9 has a new mechanism for adding lyrics to melodies. It is now possible to have different melismatic variations for each stanza. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

January 9, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.8 has an important new feature: it is now possible to use \property to tune the appearance of spanning objects like StaffSymbol and SystemStartBrace. In addition, contexts may be modified with \remove and \consists for individual music expressions. More information in the Änderungen. Alte Downloads

January 7, 2004

An update to the stable branch, version 2.0.2, was released today. It contains a couple of minor bugfixes. Alte Downloads

January 6, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.7 continues to improve the layout of the Schubert test piece; this release focuses on dot placement and multi measure rests centering. More information in the Änderungen and download here.

January 4, 2004

LilyPond 2.1.6 continues to improve the layout of lyrics. More information in the release notes and download here.

January 2, 2004

In LilyPond 2.1.5, the lyric alignment is completely revamped, and now matches my Edition Peters version of the Schubert song Sängers Morgen. More information in the Änderungen and download here.

December 30, 2003

LilyPond 2.1.4 is released. Font shapes and line thickness are now truly different for different staff sizes, thus lending an engraved look to scores printed in smaller type too. See the Änderungen and download here.

December 23, 2003

LilyPond 2.1.3 released. Interpreting and formatting is now done while parsing the file. This allows for Scheme manipulation of music, and could be used to implement experimental MusicXML output (volunteers to implement this are welcome!) See the Änderungen and download here.

December 17, 2003

LilyPond 2.1.2 released. This release has a new mechanism for setting font sizes, which combines different font design sizes and continuous font scaling. See the Änderungen and download here.

December 16, 2003

LilyPond 2.1.1 released. This release wraps together all the small fixes made during Han-Wen’s absence. See the Änderungen and download here.

October 11, 2003

LilyPond 2.1.0 released. See the Änderungen and download here.

October 11, 2003

LilyPond 2.0.1 binaries for Mandrake 9.1 available from here thanks to Heikki Junes.

October 9, 2003

LilyPond 2.0.1 binaries for Slackware 9 available from here, thanks to Ricardo Hoffman.

October 5, 2003

LilyPond 2.0.1 binaries are available for Macos X, many thanks to Matthias Neeracher. Alte Downloads

October 4, 2003

LilyPond 2.0.1 binaries are available for Windows (Cygwin version 1.5). Alte Downloads. Thanks to Bertalan Fodor, our new Cygwin maintainer!

September 29, 2003

LilyPond 2.0.1 is released. It contains minor bugfixes. See the Änderungen or download here directly.

September 27, 2003

PlanetCCRMA has been updated to include LilyPond 2.0. Go here to download. Thanks to Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano!

September 24, 2003

LilyPond 2.0.0 is released. The focus of this release is cleanups of the syntax: entering music is now much easier and more efficient. Read the announcement here, or go to the download page directly.

September 24, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.10 is released. This is the final LilyPond 2.0 release candidate. Check the Änderungen and download here.

September 23, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.9 is released. This is the second LilyPond 2.0 prerelease. Check the Änderungen and download here.

September 19, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.8 is released. This is the first LilyPond 2.0 prerelease. Check the Änderungen and download here.

September 17, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.7 is released. LilyPond now has support for quarter tone accidentals! Alte Downloads

September 16, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.6 is released. It has a lot of minor fixes and updates. Alte Downloads

September 10, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.5 is released. With this release, the 1.9 branch is feature complete. After some stabilization and documentation work, 2.0 will be available in a few weeks. Alte Downloads

September 9, 2003

LilyPond 1.8.2 is released. This release fixes a couple of minor bugs. Alte Downloads

September 7, 2003

LilyPond 1.8 binaries are available for Windows (Cygwin version 1.5). Alte Downloads

August 31, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.4 is released. This is an experimental release: read the announcement before trying.

August 31, 2003

LilyPond 1.8 binaries for slackware available. Get them here.

August 31, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.3 is released. This release supports tagging for music version control, and has better fingering placement flexibility. Read the Änderungen and get it here.

August 28, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.2 is released. Read the Änderungen and get it here.

August 26, 2003

LilyPond 1.9.1 is released. Read the Änderungen and get it here.

August 25, 2003

The LilyPond 1.9 development release is available. Read the Änderungen and get it here.

August 25, 2003

Mandrake 9.1 RPMS available, get them here.

August 21, 2003

LilyPond 1.8.1 was released. Get it here, or read the Änderungen.

August 18, 2003

PlanetCCRMA (eg. RedHat 8 and 9) has been updated to 1.8. Download here.

August 7, 2003

LilyPond 1.8 is released. Read Änderungen and get it here.

August 7, 2003

New website went live!

August 6, 2003

Announced new website.

August 1, 2003

LilyPond 1.7.30 released.

July 30, 2003

Website: present treatise about music engraving, music printing software, and LilyPond’s unique faculties.

July 29, 2003

1.7.29 - release candidate 4 has been released. Packages for Red Hat, Debian, Cygwin are available.

Einleitung		Hier beginnen, um Noten zu setzen.
Download		LilyPond Herunterladen.
Handbücher		Lesen der Handbücher.
Gemeinschaft		Kontakt mit anderen Benutzern aufnehmen.

Eigenschaften		What can LilyPond do?
Beispiele		I want to see some music!
Freiheit		Freedom and the GPL.
Hintergrund		Computational aesthetics.
Produktionen		Real-life use of LilyPond.
Rezensionen		What do people say about it?
Texteingabe		You write music as text?!
Leichteres Editieren		Andere Wege, mit LilyPond zu arbeiten.

Einführung		Einführung.
Glossar		Glossar.
Aufsatz		Aufsatz.
Notation		Referenz.
Benutzung		Benutzung.
Schnipsel		Schnipsel.
FAQ		FAQ.
Web		Web.
Änderungen		NEWS.
Erweitern		Programmierung.
Interna		Interna.
Alles		Alle Handbücher
FDL		Lizenz.