Re: How to start Lilypond

2007-04-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bonnie Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Francisco Vila wrote: El lun, 19 de mar de 2007, a las 01:33:45 +0100, Francisco Vila dijo: Really you can simply open notepad and save the document as whatever.ly and it will keep its given filename extension, so it should

Re: How to start Lilypond

2007-03-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The simplest way for a newbie to start editing a new LilyPond file in Windows, is simply to double-click on the LilyPond icon on the Desktop. This will start a simple text editor (similar to Notepad) which has no problems with the .ly file extension. This is also the editor that's started if

Re: How to start Lilypond

2007-03-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As others have already implied, LilyPond is fairly different from most other programs you have experienced earlier in Windows. For example, it's one of these programs where you shouldn't expect to be able to do anything useful unless you have read the introductory part of the documentation, so

Re: How to start Lilypond

2007-03-19 Thread Francisco Vila
El lun, 19 de mar de 2007, a las 01:33:45 +0100, Francisco Vila dijo: If you do this, you WILL have a test.ly.txt file and it will NOT be associated with lilypond because of its extension. Really you can simply open notepad and save the document as whatever.ly and it will keep its given

Re: How to start Lilypond

2007-03-19 Thread Bonnie Rogers
Francisco Vila wrote: El lun, 19 de mar de 2007, a las 01:33:45 +0100, Francisco Vila dijo: Really you can simply open notepad and save the document as whatever.ly and it will keep its given filename extension, so it should work as a lilypond file. Not true unless you have experience

Re: How to start Lilypond

2007-03-18 Thread Francisco Vila
El sáb, 17 de mar de 2007, a las 10:48:24 +, Ed Ardzinski dijo: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I downloaded the Lilypond today, but the exe-file eludes me. How do I start the Lilypond programme? I use Microsoft xp. You can read the manual, but I understand that it's sometimes tough to get

How to start Lilypond

2007-03-17 Thread Olav Terkelsen
I downloaded the Lilypond today, but the exe-file eludes me. How do I start the Lilypond programme? I use Microsoft xp. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: How to start Lilypond

2007-03-17 Thread Ed Ardzinski
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I downloaded the Lilypond today, but the exe-file eludes me. How do I start the Lilypond programme? I use Microsoft xp. You can read the manual, but I understand that it's sometimes tough to get started. Lilypond works more like a programming language. I am assuming