LilyKDE

LilyKDE is a set of tools to integrate the very fine LilyPond music typesetter into KDE.

How to Install:

Install Kate and KPDF (from KDE 3.5.x), Python, PyKDE, PyQt and P�t�. If possible use the tools of your operating system to install these prerequisites.

Then unzip lilykde and type 'make install'. This installs LilyKDE in your home directory. You may look at the Makefile and the README for other install options.

Next launch Kate and enable the Pate plugin, which enables Kate to use Python plugins. With Pate enabled, select Settings->Configure Python Plugins and enable LilyPond.

Now, when editing a LilyPond file, press Ctrl+Shift+M to get a preview (with clickable notes), or Ctrl+Shift+P to get a publishable PDF (without clickable notes but much smaller).

Features:

• a Kate plugin that can run LilyPond for you, embedding a PDF preview right into Kate and other nice things.
• A textedit service so you can click on the notes in the preview (or any other PDF viewer) and have Kate jump to the correct position
• Powerful LilyPond syntax highlighting (already part of KDE)
• An icon and mimetype for .ly files

What is new in this release:

• Translations update
• Minor improvements

What is new in version 0.6.5:

• Improve adding articulation etc. to selection. Now also recognizes chords and skips commands like ff which were previously recognized as pitches.
• New Rhythm tab in Quick Insert panel with some powerful functions manipulating the rhythm of the selected music.
• Handling of non-ascii characters in filenames has been fixed.

What is new in version 0.6.4:

• New Quick Insert Panel, with already one convenient tool to insert articulations and ornaments, one by one or to a group of notes at once.

What is new in version 0.6.3:

• ScoreWizard: Choir: use center-column if LilyPond >= 2.11.57
• config option to always empty log when a LilyPond job is started
• All vocal part types have now a checkbox Ambitus that adds the Ambitus_engraver to the correct staff or voice, showing the pitch range of that vocal part
• Example x-lilypond.conf file for Expand plugin added

Requirements:

• KDE
• PyQt
• Python
• PyKDE