Prebuilt Documentation and packages are available from:

    http://www.lilypond.org

LilyPond development is hosted at:

    http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/lilypond

Here is a simple explanation of the directory layout for
LilyPond's source files.


.                        Toplevel READMEs, ChangeLog,
|                          build bootstrapping, patches
|                          for third party programs
|
|-- Documentation/       Top sources for most of the manuals
|   |
|   |
|   |   INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS FOR EACH MANUAL:
|   |     Note: "Snippets" and "Internals Reference" are
|   |     auto-generated during the Documentation Build process.
|   |
|   |
|   |-- contributor/     Contributor's Guide
|   |-- essay/           Essay on automated music engraving
|   |-- extending/       Extending the functionality of LilyPond
|   |-- learning/        Learning Manual
|   |-- notation/        Notation Reference
|   |-- usage/           Runnning the programs that come with LilyPond
|   |-- web/             The website
|   |
|   |
|   |   TRANSLATED MANUALS:
|   |     Each language's directory can contain...
|   |       1) translated versions of:
|   |          * top sources for manuals
|   |          * individual chapters for each manual
|   |       2) a texidocs/ directory for snippet translations
|   |
|   |-- ca/              Catalan
|   |-- cs/              Czech
|   |-- de/              German
|   |-- es/              Spanish
|   |-- fr/              French
|   |-- hu/              Hungarian
|   |-- it/              Italian
|   |-- ja/              Japanese
|   |-- nl/              Dutch
|   |-- pt/              Portuguese
|   |-- zh/              Chinese
|   |
|   |
|   |   MISCELLANEOUS DOC STUFF:
|   |
|   |-- css/             CSS files for HTML docs
|   |-- included/        .ly files used in the manuals
|   |-- logo/            Web logo and "note" icon
|   |-- ly-examples/     .ly files for the "Examples" webpage
|   |-- misc/            Old announcements, ChangeLogs and NEWS
|   |-- pictures/        Images used (eps/jpg/png/svg)
|   |   `-- pdf/         (pdf)
|   |-- po/              Translated build/maintenance scripts
|   |-- snippets/        Auto-generated from the LSR and from ./new/
|   |   `-- new/         Snippets too new for the LSR
|   `-- topdocs/         AUTHORS, INSTALL, README
|
|
|   C++ SOURCES:
|
|-- flower/              A simple C++ library
|-- lily/                C++ sources for the LilyPond binary
|
|
|   LIBRARIES:
|
|-- ly/                  .ly \include files
|-- mf/                  MetaFont sources for Emmentaler fonts
|-- ps/                  PostScript library files
|-- scm/                 Scheme sources for LilyPond and subroutine files
|-- tex/                 TeX and texinfo library files
|
|
|   SCRIPTS:
|
|-- config/              Autoconf helpers for configure script
|-- python/              Python modules, MIDI module
|   `-- auxiliar/        Python modules for build/maintenance
|-- scripts/             End-user scripts (--> lilypond/usr/bin/)
|   |-- auxiliar/        Maintenance and non-essential build scripts
|   `-- build/           Essential build scripts
|
|
|   BUILD PROCESS:
|   (also see SCRIPTS section above)
|
|-- make/                Specific make subroutine files
|-- stepmake/            Generic make subroutine files
|
|
|   REGRESSION TESTS:
|
|-- input/
|   `-- regression/      .ly regression tests
|       |-- abc2ly/      .abc regression tests
|       |-- lilypond-book/  lilypond-book regression tests
|       |-- midi/        midi2ly regression tests
|       `-- musicxml/    .xml and .itexi regression tests
|
|
|   MISCELLANEOUS:
|
|-- elisp/               Emacs LilyPond mode and syntax coloring
|-- vim/                 Vi(M) LilyPond mode and syntax coloring
`-- po/                  Translations for binaries and end-user scripts
