LilyKDE

LilyKDE is a Free Software project to make working with the LilyPond music typesetter within KDE very easy. If you are a LilyPond user and you have KDE, then LilyKDE is for you.

The main part of LilyKDE is a plugin for Kate, with the following features:

Run LilyPond on the current document with a keystroke.

Show an embedded PDF preview. When you click on a note or another object, Kate jumps to the correct document and cursor position.

A powerful Score Wizard to quickly set up a LilyPond document.

Display LilyPond's messages in a log view. Error messages are also clickable.

Direct MIDI input from a MIDI-keyboard or even your computer keyboard. This powerful function uses Rumor for the actual work, but it can automatically set the key and time signature according to the current document. You can adjust the metronome speed very easy by clicking on a "Tap" button. Many other settings are available.

After LilyPond has run you can open, email or print PDF documents and play MIDI files with a mouseclick from within Kate.

Automatic hyphenation of Lyric texts using dictionaries from e.g. OpenOffice.org or Scribus.

The other parts of LilyKDE are:

MIME type information and an icon for LilyPond files

A textedit:// service to make the clickable links work anywhere in KDE

A Konqueror servicemenu and helper app to run LilyPond from within Konqueror on selected files

Katepart syntax highlighting for LilyPond documents (also part of KDE)

LilyKDE is translated into Dutch, French, Turkish, Spanish, Russian, Italian and German.

Changes in 0.6.6 (since 0.6.5):
- Translations update
- Minor improvements

Changes in 0.6.5 (since 0.6.4):
- 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.


Changes in 0.6.4 (since 0.6.3):
- 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.

Changes in 0.6.3 (since 0.6.2):
- 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