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LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-qualitysheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved musicto computer printouts. LilyPond is free software and part of theGNU Project.

• Main website:https://lilypond.org
• Downloads:https://lilypond.org/download.html
• Documentation:https://lilypond.org/manuals
• Official repository:https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/lilypond
• Development repository and issue tracker:https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond
• Mailing lists:https://lilypond.org/contact
• Contributor’s Guide:https://lilypond.org/doc/latest/Documentation/contributor

LilyPond is a text-based music notation program. It produces elegant, balancedscores, the look of which was inspired by classical hand-engraving. LilyPondis cross-platform and extremely flexible thanks to its extension system writtenin the Scheme programming language.

More about LilyPond in ourIntroduction.

Binaries are available athttps://lilypond.org/download.html

For compiling LilyPond yourself, refer toCompilingin the Contributor's Guide.

LilyPond uses a versioning scheme that easily identifies stable anddevelopment releases. In a versionx.y.z, an even second numberydenotes a stable version. For development versions,y is odd.

The manuals can be read online athttps://lilypond.org/manuals

It is also possible to build the documentation locally: follow the instructions athttps://lilypond.org/doc/latest/Documentation/contributor/generating-documentation

Thelilypond-user@gnu.org mailing list is the primary place for users to helpeach other. Refer toContact forsubscription and archives. Mailing lists in other languages are alsoreferenced there.

LilyPond is run by volunteers. If you are interested in contributing, pleaseget in touch with us on thelilypond-devel@gnu.org mailing list(more information). TheContributor’s Guidewill help you get started.