In win7 I am able to associate a type of file with a specific *.ly for example, in this case 2.16 . And happily it seems to work. Thank you both. Mission accomplished Jay
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Phil Holmes <m...@philholmes.net> wrote: > ** > Hmm. I don't believe the current install creates an association that > allows you to double click to run Lilypond. I think you either must have > done this years ago, or a very old install did it, and associated .ly files > with something like c:\Program Files\lilypond\usr\bin\lilypond.exe. > > If you want 2.16 to be the default, rename your old lilypond directory to > something like lilypond214 and install 2.16. Then if you want to use 2.14, > right click the .ly file, choose "Open with" and browse to the old version > of lily. > > Or, as Thomas says, use the command line and set your path statement to > point to your lilypond .exe of choice. > > -- > Phil Holmes > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Jay Hamilton <i...@soundand.com> > *To:* Phil Holmes <m...@philholmes.net> ; lilypond user > group<lilypond-user@gnu.org> > *Sent:* Sunday, December 23, 2012 5:04 PM > *Subject:* Re: installing 2.16 and keeping 2.14? > > Ok I can put it in a different directory (I'm pretty sure) but your > 'depends' makes me leary that it's not straight forward in the running. > At the moment all I do and have done for years is create a piece in an > editor save it to a folder click on file in the folder. > If I have to do something else .... what is that? > Thanks for the start. > Jay > > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Phil Holmes <m...@philholmes.net> wrote: > >> ** >> Depends a little on how you run it, but installing in a separate >> directory keeps the 2 quite separate. I currently have 68 versions >> installed. >> >> -- >> Phil Holmes >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* i...@soundand.com >> *To:* lilypond-user@gnu.org >> *Sent:* Sunday, December 23, 2012 4:22 PM >> *Subject:* installing 2.16 and keeping 2.14? >> >> After starting a rather large, to me, flurry a bit ago...... I was going >> to -today- install 2.16 but due to having a large opera in 2.14 and never >> successfully converting I want and was told it was possible to have both. >> >> Win7 >> >> But I don't know how to do it.. >> >> Thanks >> >> Jay >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> >> > > > -- > Jay Hamilton Sound and Silence www.soundand.com 206-328-7694 > > -- Jay Hamilton Sound and Silence www.soundand.com 206-328-7694
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