An automated engraving system for typesetting sheet music.
Lilypond is a unix-based automated engraving system that generates beautiful sheet music from input files. Lilypond uses its own input format, .ly, which in many ways is similar to LaTeX. Lilypond can export sheet music to PDF, EPS, SVG, and PNG formats, and can also create MIDI files.
Lilypond is a unix-based automated engraving system that generates beautiful sheet music from input files. Lilypond uses its own input format, .ly, which in many ways is similar to LaTeX. Lilypond can export sheet music to PDF, EPS, SVG, and PNG formats, and can also create MIDI files.
To install lilypond, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install lilypond
To see what files were installed by lilypond, run:
port contents lilypond
To later upgrade lilypond, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade lilypond
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