LilyPond is a free/open source package to create beautiful music notation. With version 2.6, LilyPond is now truly for everyone. - For every platform LilyPond now installs in a snap on Windows, MacOS X, and any version of Linux/x86. Get up and running in minutes! - For every language Pango text formatting lets you print Unicode lyrics in your favorite script and font. - For every application Create SVG files, and edit them in Inkscape. In addition, version 2.6 adds support for - staves starting anywhere on the page - solfa notation - arrowed lines - better auto-beaming - circled text - string-number notation - better ledger line formatting - score separators - cleaner syntax for text markup - pagebreaks around titles - stemlets on beams - easier titles customization - direct PostScript or SVG output - (te)TeX no longer necessary - revised manual - website now translated into Dutch and French Grab it at http://lilypond.org A big thank-you goes out to our contributors, translators, website translators and bug-hunters: CONTRIBUTORS Andreas Scherer, Arno Waschk, Bertalan Fodor, Carl Sorensen, Christian Hitz, David Jedlinsky, Erlend Aasland, Heikki Junes, John Williams, Jonatan Liljedahl, Jürgen Reuter, Mats Bengtsson, Matthias Neeracher, Mathieu Giraud, Nicolas Sceaux, Pal Benko, Sebastiano Vigna, Tatsuya Ono, Vicente Solsona Della, Werner Lemberg, and Yuval Harel. TRANSLATORS Abel Cheung, John Mandereau, Olcay Yıldırım, Roland Stigge and Steven Michael Murphy WEBSITE TRANSLATORS Gauvain Pocentek, Jean-Charles Malahieude, John Mandereau, and Tineke de Munnik. SPONSORS Bertalan Fodor, Chris Sawer, Gunther Strube, Hans Forbrich, Jonathan Walther, Marcus Macauley, and Steve Doonan. BUG HUNTERS/SUGGESTIONS Alexandre Beneteau, Andreas Scherer, Anthony W. Youngman, Antti Kaihola, Arjan Bos, David Bobroff, Bernard Hurley, Bruce Fairchild, Bruce McIntyre, Bruce Fairchild, Daniel Johnson, David Rogers, Dylan Nicholson, Ed Jackson, Erik Ronström, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano, Gilles Sadowski, Jack O'Quin, Jeff Smith, Johannes Schindelin, John Mandereau, Jose Miguel Pasini, Josiah Boothby, Jürgen Reuter, Karl Hammar, Laura Conrad, Olivier Guéry, Paul Scott, Richard Schoeller, Rob Platt, Roman Stöckl-Schmidt, Russ Jorgensen, Simon Bailey, Stephen McCarthy, Sven Axelsson, Tapio Tuovila, Tom Cato Amundsen, Will Oram, and Wolfgang Hoffmann. Happy music printing, The LilyPond development team, Han-Wen Nienhuys & Jan Nieuwenhuizen Core development Graham Percival Documentation Editor Erik Sandberg Bug Meister Pedro Kroeger Build Meister -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke(a)gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org