# Toplevel README

# 1. 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.

## 1.1 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.

## 1.2 Downloading

The primary download site for sourcecode is http://lilypond.org/download/.

## 1.3 Compilation

For compiling and running LilyPond see the installation instructions. These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond, as ‘`lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt`’. They are also available on the web at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.html.

## 1.4 Documentation

The documentation is available online at http://lilypond.org/doc/.

You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under ‘Building documentation’ in the installation instructions.

## 1.5 Comments

Send your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. to the mailing list, not to us personally.

We have the following mailing lists:

- info-lilypond@gnu.org is a low-volume list for information on LilyPond project. This list is moderated; ask David R. Linn or Han-Wen to send announcements for this list.
- lilypond-devel@gnu.org for discussions about developing LilyPond, in particular the unstable series.
- lilypond-user@gnu.org for discussions about using LilyPond, in particular the stable series.
- bug-lilypond@gnu.org for sending bugreports.
- lilypond-cvs@gnu.org for log files from the autobuild.

You can search the lists from our searching facilities.

## 1.6 Bugs

Send bug reports to bug-lilypond@gnu.org. For help and questions use lilypond-user@gnu.org.

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