Native Windows Build 2.5.25

[J L]

Dear Jan,

Finally, there is a native port for Windows!

on my computer, the only font that it chosses for text is Verdana.
Other ones are available, but only Verdana is used
And yet, the docs (PDF user manual) shows other fonts (while there is no 
apparent special commands specified)
I though I read that the fonts for Lily 2.5.x were Century Schoolbook or 
Book Antiqua?

is there an option to turn PDF point and click off? I makes the file size 
larger and I mostly don't need it


there's an empty file called midi.so in %install 
directory%\usr\lib\lilypond\2.5.25\python


is there a syntax change that now requires all contexts or staves to be 
explicitly declared?
        in 2.4.x you could do and get midi and all
                { c'4 d'4 e'4 }
        or
                <<
                        \context Voice = something { c'4 d'4 e'4 }
                        \context Lyrics = something { s1 }
                >>
                \context Lyrics = something \lyricsto something { foo bar foo }

        now you have to do to get sound or right staves
                \new Staff { c'4 d'4 e'4 }
        or
                \context Staff = "something" <<
                        \context Voice = somethingA { c'4 d'4 e'4 }
                \context Lyrics = somethingA { s1 }
                >>

foreign fonts or non standard english characters causes ghostscript to fail. 
- I don't have some fonts but some should work?

could there be some window that appears when processing starts, and 
disappears when processing finishes?
	currently, I am left guessing and looking at the folder to see if LilyPond 
is doing anything

maybe a DOS restriction, but filenames are clipped to 8 characters. Why 
can't original filename be used?

Welcome to LilyPond file -
        number 1, grammer: Safe instead of Save

Python -
	I think that the Python scripts could be made to run, using a little bit of 
path work, and
	adding an option to the installer (?) so that if a user has Python, those 
scripts could be
	run. Adding Python to this distribution I think is not a good idea as there 
are quite a few
	modules, and many are interlinked. This would lead to a larger download 
size...

\minor keys no longer supported?
        LilyPond gives an error when it encounters something like
                \key b \minor
        but still allows
                \key d \major

	the things that seem to define this (scale-definitions-init.ly) still seems 
to have minor defined

LilyPond tagline: spacing between the work "LilyPond" and the LilyPond 
version is a bit close
        an attempt to fix that... in "titling_init.ly"

        tagline = \markup {
                \with-url

                 %% todo: lilypond.org/music-engraving
                #"http://lilypond.org/web/";
                \line {
                        "Music engraving by LilyPond ("
                        #(ly:export (lilypond-version))
                        ") -"
                         "www.lilypond.org"
                }
        }


LilyPad, Made using some things similar to Windows Notepad.
Notepad cannot handle line breaks correctly. It only recognises Windows 
style (CrLf, 13+10). same here with LilyPad

gs.bat
It mentions a directory called: "C:\Program 
Files\LilyPond\user\share\gs\fonts\" which doesn't exist

Aligorith

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