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install on windows 2000 existing cygwin?
From: |
Dave Kenny |
Subject: |
install on windows 2000 existing cygwin? |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:17:36 -0600 |
I was looking at the page:
http://lilypond.org/web/download/windows.html
and am unclear as to what I should do. How can
http://cygwin.com/setup.exe know about lilypond?
I already use cygwin, in fact I have two cygwin
trees, one on c: and another on d: (and I have no
clue which I am really using.) Do I still install
by downloading cygwin.exe? By just running one of
the setup.exe's I already have? Or with cygwin
already installed, is there some other method I
should use to install lilypond?
Also, does lilypond uninstall easily (like by rm
-rf myLilypondDirectory) or do I have to fiddle
with the Windows registry? Or is there a good
uninstall facility? I am concerned about this
because my disk drives are getting full and
windows install/uninstall has never seemed very
robust to me.
Finally, perhaps I am barking up the wrong tree.
I have been using the "scot" (SCOre Translator)
program to create .sco files (notelists) for
CSound. Unfortunately, I am a Bach fan, and while
I can deal with alto clef as well as treble and
bass, I have an enormous error rate trying to read
the others. So I thought if I translate the scot
notation into lilypond notation, I could print out
a score of what I thought I entered, in order to
proofread it. (I am not a good enough musician
to"proofhear" it, especially with weird clefs.)
Since Lilypond appears to be a tool to print music
beautifully, and since I don't need beauty, just
weird clefs, do you know of some more lightweight
package I should be using? Or does lilypond itself
perform reasonably well (under windows) once I
configure stuff properly?
(I think Lilypond notation is pretty reasonable,
and basing it on Scheme appeals to me since I
fiddle with emacs lisp. From what else I've seen
on the net, I think it would be nice if lilypond
notation became a de facto standard, since what is
out there now seems pretty confusing.)
- install on windows 2000 existing cygwin?,
Dave Kenny <=