Mats Bengtsson wrote:
terms of major usability thresholds, if you focus too much
on installation issues. Note also that the Windows installers
didn't exist half a year ago, whereas the program has existed
for almost 10 years, so I expect major improvements in the
coming months.
I don't, at leas
I see, didnt noticed that eariler.
Installers could detect if any JRE is available, then download/install them if
needed. (commerial installers like http://www.advancedinstaller.com/ or
http://www.denova.com/ does that), if not make a notice to download it from
sun's page.
As for whether inst
The biggest improvement to initial usability on the windows platform
would be quite simple. If lilypond is invoked without arguments (i.e.
by clicking the icon on the desktop) do something ... anything ... at
minimum display some documentation as to usage. Else ...
... hmmm ... lilypond looks
I'm afraid that the biggest obstacle to get started with
LilyPond is not the installation but learning to master the
input syntax and semantics. Unfortunately, there are still
many aspects of input syntax and semantics that reflect
the way the program works internally, which may be far
from intuit
Don Blaheta wrote:
Finally, the score. A score looks
like this:
\score {
\midi { ... }
\layout { ... }
...
}
No, the music expression has to come before the \midi and
\layout blocks (at least in most LilyPond versions).
/Mats
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Nicolas Sceaux wrote:
Han-Wen,
It turns out that manually setting vertical spacement tweak is
way too fragile. They are easily broken when changing LilyPond version
for instance. Or if one set manually all tweaks, and then is told:
"could you make margins a bit larger, or use another font size",
Nahum Wengrov wrote:
Hi.
I'm relatively new to Lilypond. I experimented with it and explored the Fine
Manual quite extensively. I'm qorking now on a Project Gutenberg project,
which means the .pdf output needs to resemble the Original Score as closely
as possible.
Please always tell what L
--- Nahum Wengrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) Can I hide, from the pdf output, the time signature at the
> beginning of a
> score?
> (I've done the 2nd line of notes as a separate score, because it has
> an
> additional Voice & Lyrics staff not existing in the the 1st line.)
> Alternatively, c