LilyPond

LilyPond: Powerful software utility for assisting musicians in generating visually-appealing music scores.

The purpose of LilyPond is to offer musicians a reliable method of generating visually-appealing music scores, like the hand-engraved ones, and be able to print and share them.

The program comes with an editor named LilyPad, and it will allow users to create, customize and work with LY format files, which will programmatically input the layouts they desire to render as printable files.

It also comes with a pretty straightforward design, which is coupled with the Windows context-menu integration of LilyPond, and will allow all users to open a source file in order to further edit it or to convert it to PDF.

Users will be able to check out the entire development process of a music sheet, to determine when changes were introduced, in order to reverse the modifications in case there are any unwanted changes.

LilyPond is a must-have software utility for all musicians that need assistance, in creating attractive files like the engraved ones, from a computer.