Installing on Windows XP

[Richard Glascodine]

Sorry about that, I pressed Enter by accident!

Hi,

Yeah, I'm really keen to try out lilypond. I too agree with you that 
Sibelius Scores et al just dont look right- they look really amatuer dont 
they. Anyway I digress....

I followed your instructions about downloading lilypond for WIndows XP 
through setup.exe. My question is what happens after it has downloaded, does 
an icon appear on my start menu or do I have to type a command line or 
something? (Which I'm not sure how to do).

Some things which may help: I chose a differerent download site because the 
one on the top took ages (about 0.6kbs) - I have boadband - thats a shit 
rate!

Also, the installer kind of 'froze' at 99% (annoying) but when I clicked 
cancel a window popped up and said installation complete, so I carried on 
anyway.

If you could clarify a few points for me that would be great as I really 
want to see what the results are like.

I'm starting a music teaching course in September (for schools) and I'm just 
sussing out open source software, to see if they are suitable in my music 
teaching.  (I'm also sussing out linux as well but its confusing!)

Many thanks

Richard Glascodine

(wannabe lilypond user)

address@hidden

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