Re: Starting up lilypond (install)
If you search the mailing list archives, you will find that there are some problems with the OSX version of LilyPond on Leopard. As far as I can understand, you can only run it from the command line. However, in Windows XP, there shouldn't be any such problems. Based on your previous email, it seems that you have used LilyPond before, so I won't direct you to the Tutorial, as I would normally do when this kind of question pops up on the mailing list. However, for us to be able to understand what problem you experience in Windows, you would have to provide more details of exactly what you tried to do and what LilyPond version you used, the last stable 2.10.33 or the last development 2.11.40? Did you use the editor that's opened when you double click in the LilyPond icon or a LilyPond file, or did you use some other text editor (any text editor will do and the one included with LilyPond is fairly primitive). /Mats Rafael González wrote: This happened to me with my windows XP and my Apple leopard: I download tha latest version of lilypond. It does not want to save the initial test file. -- γγγ ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -- = Mats Bengtsson Signal Processing School of Electrical Engineering Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) SE-100 44 STOCKHOLM Sweden Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463 Fax: (+46) 8 790 7260 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe = ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Starting up
Hello, I'm a Czech music teacher. I'm visually impaired, so creating scores graphically is very tiring for my eyes. I just downloaded and installed LilyPond 2.8.1 on WindowsXP Pro Czech edition. As a Czech user, I'd like to use Czech accented characters within text elements in LilyPond. 1. I have never used Unicode-capable text editor, all my plain-text files are stored using cp1250 codepage. I'd like to use Notepad++ (based on Scintilla engine) as an input file editor. Is there any support for this editor? How to save an input file so that CZ characters appear correctly in output? 2. Is there a way to output LilyPond score as a raster image with preset dpi value (e.g. 300, 600 dpi), so that I could create short music examples and insert them as images into Windows word processor? Thank you for your help. Tomas Valusek ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Starting up
Quoting Tomas Valusek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I'm a Czech music teacher. I'm visually impaired, so creating scores graphically is very tiring for my eyes. I just downloaded and installed LilyPond 2.8.1 on WindowsXP Pro Czech edition. As a Czech user, I'd like to use Czech accented characters within text elements in LilyPond. 1. I have never used Unicode-capable text editor, all my plain-text files are stored using cp1250 codepage. I'd like to use Notepad++ (based on Scintilla engine) as an input file editor. Is there any support for this editor? How to save an input file so that CZ characters appear correctly in output? The simple answer is that you need an editor that can save files using UTF-8 encoding. You know more about Notepad++ than I do. There are a number of proposed editors listed somewhere in the on-line documentation. 2. Is there a way to output LilyPond score as a raster image with preset dpi value (e.g. 300, 600 dpi), so that I could create short music examples and insert them as images into Windows word processor? See the section on Invoking LilyPond. I hope you are familiar to the command prompt in Windows. Then it's easy to use whatever flags to LilyPond, such as lilypond --png myfile.ly /Mats ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Starting up
In the Format menu in Notepad++ you can choose the option Encode in UTF-8 that should be all that is required, hope this helps..regards,SimonOn 4/4/06, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Tomas Valusek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I'm a Czech music teacher. I'm visually impaired, so creating scores graphically is very tiring for my eyes. I just downloaded and installed LilyPond 2.8.1 on WindowsXP Pro Czech edition. As a Czech user, I'd like to use Czech accented characters within text elements in LilyPond. 1. I have never used Unicode-capable text editor, all my plain-text files are stored using cp1250 codepage. I'd like to use Notepad++ (based on Scintilla engine) as an input file editor. Is there any support for this editor? How to save an input file so that CZ characters appear correctly in output?The simple answer is that you need an editor that can savefiles using UTF-8 encoding. You know more about Notepad++ than I do.There are a number of proposed editors listed somewhere in the on-line documentation. 2. Is there a way to output LilyPond score as a raster image with preset dpi value (e.g. 300, 600 dpi), so that I could create short music examples and insert them as images into Windows word processor? See the section on Invoking LilyPond. I hope you are familiar to thecommand prompt in Windows. Then it's easy to use whatever flags toLilyPond, such aslilypond --png myfile.ly /Mats___lilypond-user mailing listlilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Starting up
Also look into installing jEdit and it's LiiyPond plug in. Make sure Sun (or IBM) Java is up-to-date on your machine first. jEdit has worked out very nicely for me, and I just started a week ago. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Starting-up-t1394437.html#a3754016 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Starting up Lilypond
Op wo, 20-04-2005 te 12:58 +0200, schreef Tanguy Lost: Sacha Standen wrote: Hello I have just downloaded Lilypond onto Windows ME, but don't have the faintest idea where to go from here! All the instructions seem to be in technical language that I can't follow. I've saved the text file, which opens a PDF window with an extract of music in, which I presume means the installation has worked, but I can't find any icon to load the Lilypond programme. In the Tutorial section 2.2 it tells me to open a terminal window (what's that?) and start a text editor (?) e.g. open an xterm(??) and execute Joe(???). I'm getting confused here. Please excuse my technical ignorance. Perhaps I should be using Finale! Regards Sacha Hello, maybe this link will be useful: http://olympus.het.brown.edu/doc/lilypond/html/Documentation/windows/out-www/installing.html This link is for version 1.4, which is over 5 years old. Please ignore that link. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] LilyPond Software Design - http://www.lilypond-design.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Réf. : Re: Starting up Lilypond
It has benn said several times, but I understand your misunderstanding. You have probably used Cygwin to install lily. You have also saved test.ly in a directory c\:\myfiles, for example. Click on the cygwin icon : il will open the famous terminal window. Make : cd c: cd myfiles lilypond test.ly It will end with : test.pdf created. Then close the terminal and fetch your test.pdf in your directory myfiles. Click on it, and that's it. To create your own lily files, just use test.ly : you can copy it with another name, and start to write some code into it, following the doc. Have fun ! Tanguy Léost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé par : Pour :Sacha Standen [EMAIL PROTECTED] lilypond-user-bounces+jean-marc.legrand=total.cc : lilypond-user@gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: Starting up Lilypond 20/04/2005 12:58 Sacha Standen wrote: Hello I have just downloaded Lilypond onto Windows ME, but don't have the faintest idea where to go from here! All the instructions seem to be in technical language that I can't follow. I've saved the text file, which opens a PDF window with an extract of music in, which I presume means the installation has worked, but I can't find any icon to load the Lilypond programme. In the Tutorial section 2.2 it tells me to open a terminal window (what's that?) and start a text editor (?) e.g. open an xterm(??) and execute Joe(???). I'm getting confused here. Please excuse my technical ignorance. Perhaps I should be using Finale! Regards Sacha Hello, maybe this link will be useful: http://olympus.het.brown.edu/doc/lilypond/html/Documentation/windows/out-www/installing.html Lilypond has no GUI, so maybe that's why you're so confused. It's quite easy to use, anyway... you have to type the score with a text editor, save it (e.g. test.ly) and then run lilypond on the file (lilypond test.ly) to get a nice sheet of music. As far as i know, if you use windows you have to use the 'cygwin' software to be able to run lilypond. Maybe you already installed it? -- Unix IS user friendly , it is just selective about who his friends are ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Starting up Lilypond
Hello I have just downloaded Lilypond onto Windows ME, but don't have the faintest idea where to go from here! All the instructions seem to be in technical language that I can't follow. I've saved the text file, which opens a PDF window with an extract of music in, which I presume means the installation has worked, but I can't find any iconto loadthe Lilypond programme. In the Tutorial section 2.2 it tells me to open a terminal window (what's that?) and start a text editor (?) e.g. open an xterm(??) and execute Joe(???). I'm getting confused here. Please excuse my technical ignorance. Perhaps I should be using Finale! Regards Sacha ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Starting up Lilypond
Hi, The lilypond program doesn't come with an interface like Finale or Sibelius. All you do is create a text file (or find the .ly file you mention) (use Notepad for instance). Write the code conforming the documentation on www.lilypond.org Save it as [something].ly Double click on it If all goes well, Acrobat Reader will open and show you a beautiful score :) greets Maurits On 19-apr-05, at 13:53, Sacha Standen wrote: Hello I have just downloaded Lilypond onto Windows ME, but don't have the faintest idea where to go from here! All the instructions seem to be in technical language that I can't follow. I've saved the text file, which opens a PDF window with an extract of music in, which I presume means the installation has worked, but I can't find any icon to load the Lilypond programme. In the Tutorial section 2.2 it tells me to open a terminal window (what's that?) and start a text editor (?) e.g. open an xterm(??) and execute Joe(???). I'm getting confused here. Please excuse my technical ignorance. Perhaps I should be using Finale! Regards Sacha ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Newbie starting up
It turns out that there is a very simple solution to the problems with double-clicking on files with spaces in the directory path. Just open the file C:\cygwin\bin\lily-wins in a text editor, add double quotes around $1: #!/bin/sh python /bin/lily-wins.py $1 Save the file and everything should work. /Mats Hendrik wrote: Thank you, it works now, I had to move test.ly into the cygwin home-directory though. Would be nice if I can just double-click it. Second: I already have a running TeX-system, MiKTeX, (I'm using W2k), but Cygwin installed TeTeX too, which I find a bit superfluous. Can I tell Lilypond to use the MiKTeX installation, and uninstall TeTeX? Third: for LaTeX, I use TeXnicCenter. I it possible to configure it so that I can type Lilypond files in it, and compile (I see a possibility with output profiles, but then lily-wins should work in the windows command prompt too, which it doesn't seem to do). Any suggestions? Greetings, Hendrik P.S.: Responses welcome in english, dutch, french, german Bertalan Fodor wrote: Open a command prompt where the test.ly file is. Type: start /B test.ly Now you will be able to copy and paste the messages. Thanks, Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -- = Mats Bengtsson Signal Processing Signals, Sensors and Systems Royal Institute of Technology SE-100 44 STOCKHOLM Sweden Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463 Fax: (+46) 8 790 7260 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe = ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Newbie starting up
Hendrik wrote: Second: I already have a running TeX-system, MiKTeX, (I'm using W2k), but Cygwin installed TeTeX too, which I find a bit superfluous. Can I tell Lilypond to use the MiKTeX installation, and uninstall TeTeX? No, not in practice! Actually, we used such a solution many years ago, but it caused lots of problems, so as soon as teTeX became available in cygwin we moved to the current solution. The problem is twofold, TeX/LaTeX has to find the LilyPond fonts and header files and LilyPond has to find font metrics files from the TeX installation. Since disk space is cheap nowadays, I don't think it's a big deal. Third: for LaTeX, I use TeXnicCenter. I it possible to configure it so that I can type Lilypond files in it, and compile (I see a possibility with output profiles, but then lily-wins should work in the windows command prompt too, which it doesn't seem to do). Any suggestions? Sound reasonable. /Mats ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Newbie starting up
Thank you, it works now, I had to move test.ly into the cygwin home-directory though. Would be nice if I can just double-click it. Second: I already have a running TeX-system, MiKTeX, (I'm using W2k), but Cygwin installed TeTeX too, which I find a bit superfluous. Can I tell Lilypond to use the MiKTeX installation, and uninstall TeTeX? Third: for LaTeX, I use TeXnicCenter. I it possible to configure it so that I can type Lilypond files in it, and compile (I see a possibility with output profiles, but then lily-wins should work in the windows command prompt too, which it doesn't seem to do). Any suggestions? Greetings, Hendrik P.S.: Responses welcome in english, dutch, french, german Bertalan Fodor wrote: Open a command prompt where the test.ly file is. Type: start /B test.ly Now you will be able to copy and paste the messages. Thanks, Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
