Réf. : Re: Starting up Lilypond

[Jean-marc LEGRAND]

It has benn said several times, but I understand your misunderstanding.

You have probably used Cygwin to install lily.
You have also saved test.ly in a directory c\:\myfiles, for example.

Click on the cygwin icon : il will open the famous "terminal window".
Make :

cd c:
cd myfiles
lilypond test.ly

It will end with :

test.pdf created.

Then close the terminal and fetch your test.pdf in your directory myfiles.
Click on it, and that's it.

To create your own lily files, just use test.ly : you can copy it with another 
name, and start to
write some code into it, following the doc.

Have fun !


                                                                                
                                                              
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Sacha Standen wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have just downloaded Lilypond onto Windows ME, but don't have the
> faintest idea where to go from here! All the instructions seem to be
> in technical language that I can't follow. I've saved the text file,
> which opens a PDF window with an extract of music in, which I presume
> means the installation has worked, but I can't find any icon to
> load the Lilypond programme.
>
> In the Tutorial section 2.2 it tells me to open a terminal window
> (what's that?) and start a text editor (?) e.g. open an xterm(??) and
> execute Joe(???). I'm getting confused here. Please excuse my
> technical ignorance. Perhaps I should be using Finale!
>
> Regards
>
> Sacha
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

Hello,

maybe this link will be useful:
http://olympus.het.brown.edu/doc/lilypond/html/Documentation/windows/out-www/installing.html

Lilypond has no GUI, so maybe that's why you're so confused.
It's quite easy to use, anyway... you have to type the score with a text
editor, save it (e.g. test.ly) and then run lilypond
on the file (lilypond test.ly)  to get a nice sheet of music.
As far as i know, if you use windows you have to use the 'cygwin'
software to be able to run lilypond. Maybe
you already installed it?



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