Re: opening files with Notepad

[Paul Scott]

David Tweet wrote:

> That's weird, I just opened wtk-1-fugue2.ly <http://wtk-1-fugue2.ly/> 
> (one of the examples from the website) in Notepad and it seems like 
> the newline character is getting printed as an empty rectangle(???).

That's because the files on the website are *nix text files.  Their 
lines end with a newline character (line feed).  NotePad (DOS) expects 
lines to end with CRLF (carriage return, line feed) and doesn't expect 
line feed alone so it replaces with the symbol for non-printable control 
character (ASCII or ANSI code < 32).

To use those files on MS Windows you need to convert all the line 
endings from *nix to DOS.  There are a number of simple programs to 
convert the files or get an editor like EditPad Lite which can do the 
conversion.

> The files I made in emacs display fine though.
>
> I use XEmacs on Windows XP, so I can get all the fun syntax 
> highlighting colors.  For Windows I would recommend it over Gnu Emacs, 
> just because it allows you to take advantage of WinXP's ClearType font 
> smoothing ( _much_ easier on the eyes ).  You can get it for free at 
> http://www.xemacs.org <http://www.xemacs.org/>

Did you try opening the website files in XEmacs?

Paul