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12 changes: 6 additions & 6 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -39,22 +39,22 @@ translators for Pygments lexers and styles.
| A | ABAP, ABNF, ActionScript, ActionScript 3, Ada, Agda, AL, Alloy, AMPL, Angular2, ANTLR, ApacheConf, APL, AppleScript, ArangoDB AQL, Arduino, ArmAsm, ATL, AutoHotkey, AutoIt, Awk
| B | Ballerina, Bash, Bash Session, Batchfile, Beef, BibTeX, Bicep, BlitzBasic, BNF, BQN, Brainfuck
| C | C, C#, C++, C3, Caddyfile, Caddyfile Directives, Cap'n Proto, Cassandra CQL, Ceylon, CFEngine3, cfstatement, ChaiScript, Chapel, Cheetah, Clojure, CMake, COBOL, CoffeeScript, Common Lisp, Coq, Core, Crystal, CSS, CSV, CUE, Cython
| D | D, Dart, Dax, Desktop file, Diff, Django/Jinja, dns, Docker, DTD, Dylan
| E | EBNF, Elixir, Elm, EmacsLisp, Erlang
| D | D, Dart, Dax, Desktop file, Devicetree, Diff, Django/Jinja, dns, Docker, DTD, Dylan
| E | EBNF, Elixir, Elm, EmacsLisp, ERB, Erlang
| F | Factor, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, FortranFixed, FSharp
| G | GAS, GDScript, GDScript3, Gemtext, Genshi, Genshi HTML, Genshi Text, Gettext, Gherkin, Gleam, GLSL, Gnuplot, Go, Go HTML Template, Go Template, Go Text Template, GraphQL, Groff, Groovy
| H | Handlebars, Hare, Haskell, Haxe, HCL, Hexdump, HLB, HLSL, HolyC, HTML, HTTP, Hy
| I | Idris, Igor, INI, Io, ISCdhcpd
| J | J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, JSON, JSONata, Jsonnet, Julia, Jungle
| K | Kakoune, Kotlin
| L | Lean4, Lighttpd configuration file, LLVM, lox, Lua, Luau
| M | Makefile, Mako, markdown, Markless, Mason, Materialize SQL dialect, Mathematica, Matlab, MCFunction, Meson, Metal, MiniZinc, MLIR, Modelica, Modula-2, Mojo, MonkeyC, MoonScript, MorrowindScript, Myghty, MySQL
| K | Kakoune, KDL, Kotlin
| L | Lateralus, Lean4, Lighttpd configuration file, LilyPond, LLVM, lox, Lua, Luau
| M | Makefile, Mako, markdown, Markless, Mason, Materialize SQL dialect, Mathematica, Matlab, MCFunction, Meson, Metal, microcad, MiniZinc, MLIR, Modelica, Modula-2, Mojo, MonkeyC, MoonBit, MoonScript, MorrowindScript, Myghty, MySQL
| N | NASM, Natural, NDISASM, Newspeak, Nginx configuration file, Nim, Nix, NSIS, Nu
| O | Objective-C, ObjectPascal, OCaml, Octave, Odin, OnesEnterprise, OpenEdge ABL, OpenSCAD, Org Mode
| P | PacmanConf, Perl, PHP, PHTML, Pig, PkgConfig, PL/pgSQL, plaintext, Plutus Core, Pony, PostgreSQL SQL dialect, PostScript, POVRay, PowerQuery, PowerShell, Prolog, Promela, PromQL, properties, Protocol Buffer, Protocol Buffer Text Format, PRQL, PSL, Puppet, Python, Python 2
| Q | QBasic, QML
| R | R, Racket, Ragel, Raku, react, ReasonML, reg, Rego, reStructuredText, Rexx, RGBDS Assembly, Ring, RPGLE, RPMSpec, Ruby, Rust
| S | SAS, Sass, Scala, Scheme, Scilab, SCSS, Sed, Sieve, Smali, Smalltalk, Smarty, SNBT, Snobol, Solidity, SourcePawn, Spade, SPARQL, SQL, SquidConf, Standard ML, stas, Stylus, Svelte, Swift, SYSTEMD, systemverilog
| S | SAS, Sass, Scala, scdoc, Scheme, Scilab, SCSS, Sed, Sieve, Smali, Smalltalk, Smarty, SNBT, Snobol, Solidity, SourcePawn, Spade, SPARQL, SQL, SquidConf, Standard ML, stas, Stylus, Svelte, Swift, SYSTEMD, systemverilog
| T | TableGen, Tal, TASM, Tcl, Tcsh, Termcap, Terminfo, Terraform, TeX, Thrift, TOML, TradingView, Transact-SQL, Turing, Turtle, Twig, TypeScript, TypoScript, TypoScriptCssData, TypoScriptHtmlData, Typst
| U | ucode
| V | V, V shell, Vala, VB.net, verilog, VHDL, VHS, VimL, vue
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% Chord example

\new ChordNames {
\chordmode {
c1 | f | g:7 | c |
c:m | f:dim | g:aug | c:maj7 |
}
}

\new Staff {
\relative c' {
c4 e g c |
f, a c f |
g, b d f |
c e g c |
}
}
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% From lilypond.org examples

\header {
title = "Simple Song"
composer = "Composer Name"
}

\relative c' {
\time 3/4
\key g \major

% Melody with dynamics
g8\mf( a b c d4) |
e8( d c b a g) |
a4 b8( c) d4 |
g,2.~ |
g4 r r |
\bar "|."
}
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% Simple LilyPond example
\version "2.24.0"

\relative c' {
\key c \major
\time 4/4

% A simple melody
c4 d e f |
g2 a |
b4 c8 d e4 f |
g1 |

% Dynamics and articulations
c4\p d\< e f\! |
g2\f a-> |

% Chords
<c e g>4 <d f a> <e g b> <f a c> |
}

\addlyrics {
Do re mi fa
sol la ti do
}
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