On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Michael Gerdau wrote:
I am needing help correctly compiling Handel's Messiah from the following website: http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/index.php/2009/06/20/40
So you need to insert \version "2.13.8" at the top of each file (*.ly and *.ily) and then apply convert-ly to all of them. Look up convert-ly in the manual under http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage/updating-files-with-convert_002dly
You can use the convert-ly option -f "2.13.8" if not all ly and ily files have a \version statement. On the commandline it is possible to convert many files in one run. (And there are many files in that source!). Maybe one of the commandline gurus here can come up with a commandline to recursively convert all the .ly and .ily files that are hidden in the Messiah directory in directories and sub-sub-sub-directories?
The Messiah score is compiled using a Makefile. If you have GNU make installed on your system, just go inside the "Messiah" directory and type
make on the commandline and then everything should be compiled. -- MT _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user