The inspiration for LilyPond came when two befriended musicians got annoyed with the bland and boring look of computer print-outs. Every musician prefers reading beautiful music, so couldn't we programmers solve that printing problem?
LilyPond just does that: it prints music in the best traditions of classical engraving with minimum fuss. Don't waste time on tuning spacing, moving around symbols, or shaping slurs. Impress friends and colleagues with sharp sheet music!
• Automatic spacing, line breaking and page breaking. • Handling of polyphonic collisions for notes, dots, and rests. • Automatic placement of accidentals, beams, slurs, ties, based on optimal scoring algorithms. • Users don't need typographical expertise to produce excellent notation. • No user interaction necessary during running. Running the program can be automated which is convenient for mass converting databases of digitized music and printing algorithmic compositions. • The Feta font has been tailored especially for LilyPond, and was designed carefully mimicking the finest hand-engraved scores. It is available as a scalable font, but also as a Metafont.
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LilyPond - Mac Free
