LilyPond – Music notation for everyone: Manuals

# Manuals

## Manuals for LilyPond 2.22.2

### Introduction

- Text input: LilyPond is a text-based music engraver. Read this first!
- Learning Manual: a “must-read” gentle introduction to LilyPond. (details of Learning)
- Glossary: (optional reading) musical terms and translations. (details of Glossary)
- Essay: (optional reading) background information about computer engraving. (details of Essay)

### Regular use

- Notation: syntax reference. (details of Notation)
- Usage: running the programs. (details of Usage)
- Snippets: short tricks and tips. (details of Snippets)

### Infrequent Use

- FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions.
- Web: this document. (details of Web)
- Changes: what’s new? (details of Changes)
- Extending: fancy tweaks. (details of Extending)
- Internals: tweaks reference. (details of Internals)

### Other material

- All: previous stable versions and current as a compressed archive.
- Translated: translation status for non-English readers.
- LilyPond Snippet Repository: user-created examples, hints and tips.
- Video Tutorials: Ben Lemon, a LilyPond user, has created a range of video tutorials on his blog and which are aimed at new users.
- Development: manuals for the unstable version.
- FDL: these manuals are published under the GNU Free Documentation License.

### Manual formats

The LilyPond manuals generally come in three formats: split HTML, big HTML and PDF. Split HTML is good for reading online. Big HTML (and some of these can be very big) contains the whole manual in a single page. PDF is available for downloading and using offline. To get to these 3 formats, follow the links that read `details of` and then the manual name.

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