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LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a
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high level description file as input. It excels at typesetting classical
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music, but you can also print pop-songs. With LilyPond we hope to make music
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publication software available to anyone on the internet.
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The input to LilyPond is plain text. So, you can use your favorite text
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editor to enter it, you can put it in mail or embed it in an article like
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this:
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\relative c'' { \key c \minor; r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4 }
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The output looks very good: the font and the layout algorithms were inspired
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by engraved music, so you can expect that same clear and elegant look from
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your LilyPond output. And if you don't like the looks, you can tweak almost
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everything.
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The program also has limited MIDI functionality: you can write MIDI files
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with lilypond, and we have a simple MIDI to lilypond conversion tool, midi2ly.
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Conversion tools for PMX, MUP, ABC, Finale and Musedata are also included.
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LilyPond is free software. It is licensed under GNU General Public License,
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so you can use, modify and redistribute the program with almost no
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restrictions. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
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