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@chapter Toplevel README
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
@section Versioning
LilyPond uses a versioning scheme that easily identifies stable and development releases. In a version "x.y.z", an even second number 'y' denotes a stable version. For development versions 'y' is odd.
@section Downloading
The primary download site for sourcecode is @uref{http://lilypond.org/download/}.
@section Compilation
For compiling and running LilyPond see the installation instructions.
These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond, as
@file{lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt}. They are also available on the web
at
@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.1/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/INSTALL.html}.
@section Documentation
The documentation is available online at @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/doc/}.
You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under `Building documentation' in the installation instructions.
@section Comments
Send your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. to the mailing list, not to us personally.
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We have the following mailing lists:
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@item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond,info-lilypond@@gnu.org}
is a low-volume list for information on LilyPond project.
This list is moderated; ask
@email{drl@@gnu.org, David R. Linn} or
@email{hanwen@@xs4all.nl, Han-Wen} to send announcements for this
list.
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@uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel,lilypond-devel@@gnu.org}
for discussions about developing LilyPond, in particular the unstable series.
@item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user,lilypond-user@@gnu.org} for discussions about using LilyPond, in particular the stable series.
@item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond,bug-lilypond@@gnu.org} for sending bugreports.
@item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-cvs,lilypond-cvs@@gnu.org}
for commit messages from the CVS repository, and log files from the
autobuild.
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You can search the lists from our @uref{http://lilypond.org/search, searching facilities}.
@section Bugs
Send bug reports to @email{bug-lilypond@@gnu.org}. For help and questions use @email{lilypond-user@@gnu.org}.
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