Re: Installing on Windows XP

[Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence]

Richard-
I teach also and I'm not sure if this program will do the trick at this 
stage in it's development.  It's very time consuming and constantly 
changing.

That said.

Run the set up exe and that's when you should be able to place the icon 
and other info where you need it.

Ex.  For convenience in my mind I made a lily folder everything is in there.
There will be a welcome file and it will tell you what to do next.  From 
there it's a matter of really using the documentation- cutting pasting 
and constantly correcting.

In all honesty I have found that working with lily... in linux is about 
8x easier than in XP  even though running linux is probably 7x harder to 
run in a usual way.

If you've had experience with Sibelius/Finale/Sunhawk/Noteworthy/ and 
some programing then lily will be just another step into the world of 
control  but it's a really tall step.

Jay

Richard Glascodine wrote:

> 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)
>
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