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Unlike programs such as Finale and Sibelius, which feature a graphical user interface for entering notes, LilyPond focuses on producing beautiful output, comparable to professionally engraved scores. Some graphical music notation programs, such as Rosegarden and NoteEdit, can export files directly to LilyPond format; other programs may be able to export files to another format, such as MusicXML, that can be converted to LilyPond.
The Mutopia project, which distributes free sheet music, uses LilyPond to typeset its music.
It is anticipated that GNU LilyPond support will be added to Wikipedia in the future, to allow inline generation of musical scores and other musical notation within Wikipedia.