Re: opening Lilypond

2008-01-11 Thread Tim Reeves
Valentin said: (If you really want to learn how to use LilyPond, you might need a more convenient editor than the notepad; for example, try jEdit ( www.jedit.org -- download the "development version"), with its special LilyPondTool plugin that is very handy (you have to download it in the "plugin

Re: opening Lilypond

2008-01-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
LilyPond is not a program like the ones you are used to: you do not have to use your mouse to create a score, but *only* your keyboard! There are no buttons to click on, no menus, nothing. First create a text file with some special code in it; then LilyPond will read it and convert it into a beaut

Re: opening Lilypond

2008-01-10 Thread Graham Percival
Try reading the tutorial. - Graham On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:09:29 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Help! I have apparently successfully downloaded Lilypond to my > Windows XP PC, but whenever I double click on the desktop icon all I > get is the silly "Let's take it for a test drive" window. I'd

opening Lilypond

2008-01-10 Thread fencinflyer
Help! I have apparently successfully downloaded Lilypond to my Windows XP PC, but whenever I double click on the desktop icon all I get is the silly "Let's take it for a test drive" window. I'd really like to use your program; and feel silly asking How do I turn the darn thing on? I've tried

Re: opening lilypond

2005-07-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 7-Jul-05, at 8:27 PM, Wayne Williams wrote: I can't even open it, the PDF file comes up but then what do I do. I've downloaded the test. How do I write my music. Is there Tab and Note format on the same page. I assume that you're running windows; Lilypond is quite different from the progr

opening lilypond

2005-07-08 Thread Wayne Williams
I can't even open it, the PDF file comes up but then what do I do. I've downloaded the test. How do I write my music. Is there Tab and Note format on the same page. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

Re: need exact pathfilename info for opening lilypond

2004-07-08 Thread Carl Bolstad
C. Burton wrote: Which program opens lilypond? What is the exact information that needs to be typed? I need this information for Win98SE. LilyPond isn't an interactive program that you open. You type up a text document in something simple like Notepad, and save it with a .ly extension. I

need exact pathfilename info for opening lilypond

2004-07-07 Thread C. Burton
Which program opens lilypond? What is the exact information that needs to be typed? I need this information for Win98SE. Thanks. ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user