Hi frank, this is the place to go for help. Near the bottom of the page in the manuals section there is a link to video tutorials made by Ben Lemon. I suggest taking a look at that because he goes step by step of the installation of LilyPond and frescobaldi, a popular editor for LilyPond. http://lilypond.org/manuals.html
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2021, at 12:18 PM, fmaurer <frmaure...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there! Is this group where I can get help to get Lilypond up and running? > I installed LP, opened it and got to the 'Welcome to LilyPond' screen. I > followed the instructions and created a copy of the file on the desktop and > dragged the file onto the LilyPond icon but no pdf file got created. Instead > I got a test.log and a test-tmp-9016347 file on the desktop. I opened the > log file and it had the following in it... > > Processing `C:/Users/frmau/Desktop/test.ly' > Parsing... > Interpreting music... > Preprocessing graphical objects... > Finding the ideal number of pages... > Fitting music on 1 page... > Drawing systems... > Converting to `/Users/frmau/Desktop/test.pdf'... > > Ant idea how to get it going? > OS: Windows 10 > > Thanks > Frank
