LilyPond 2.19.63 Beta

LilyPond grants musicians to create elegant sheet music that is simple to read. Its developer community has spent a lot of hours developing effective music engraving program that results in charmingly engraved music. All of LilyPond's style settings, font layout and algorithms have been stimulated by the finest hand engraved music. LilyPond output has the same strong, elegant and balanced look as the greatest engraved classical scores.

Everything is explicit

LilyPond processes text input, which includes all data about the content of your score and can simply be read by any user or another software. There are no confusing settings hidden behind menu items and binary file storage.

Tweaks are traceable and robust

If you have to customize anything in the layout this option will also be explicitly seeable in the input file in human readable form, so you will always be capable to retrace what you have done. If you should by chance break anything you can simply revert or adjust any decision without being at the mercy of an Undo function.

Useful layout choices

Spend fewer time with customizing the output; LilyPond gets the formatting accurate right from the start. It decides spacing by itself, and breaks lines and pages to offer an uniform and tight layout.

Simple management of style sheets

All layout adjustments can be customized to fit your personal typographical taste. So you can simply write style sheets that customize every aspect of LilyPond scores' default display.