Re: Using Lilypond

[Mats Bengtsson]

As in my previous answer, I urge you to always specify clearly what
operating system you use and what LilyPond version you have installed.
From your last line, I guess you use Windows (which actually is a
minority on this mailing list).

J L wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone tell me how to call the scripts? I know that there is stuff 
> in the documentation about doing so, but a physical example would be 
> better (such as how to basically get it to open a file and generate an 
> output file with the changes). I would in particular like to know how to 
> operate 'midi2ly' and 'convert-ly'.

As Stefaan said, it's just to go to the corresponding sections of the
manual. Just two details that are maybe not obvious for a first time
user with Windows background:

- The working directory when you start your Cygwin command window is
  C:\cygwin\home\<your login name>\, so this is the directory you should
  copy the files to before you run the commands.
- The normal way to call convert-ly is
  convert-ly -e myfile.ly
  which will update the file myfile.ly and make a backup of the original
  version in myfile.ly~

   /Mats

> Also, how is it decided which versions are ported to Windows?
>
> Aligorith
>
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