Re: request for help for research from Guatemala

[James]

Hello,

On 03/11/2010 16:49, MartínGuzmán wrote:
> Good afternoon, my name is Martin Guzman. I am a student of Computer Science at
> the Del Valle University of Guatemala. I am currently taking the course of
> construction of compilers, so I've been doing research on conventional and non
> conventional compilers. As part of my research I found LilyPond, but did not
> find the information I need for my research... That is why I am writing to you.
> It would be quite helpful to my research if you could provide me some
> information of the phases that are performed when a file is compiled.

i would start here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LilyPond

Most of this information has been added by one of the developers and 
gives you a general overview. This will get you started.

You can then find all the information in the manuals here:

For example:

This document explains how to execute the programs distributed with 
LilyPond version 2.13.38.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/usage/index.html

This is the Internals Reference (IR) for version 2.13.38 of LilyPond, 
the GNU music typesetter.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/internals/index.html

James