Re: Newbie needs help with LaTeX/lilypond integration

[John Wiedenhoeft]

Well,actually TeXnicCenter IS the best GUI for LaTeX under Windows, and
MikTeX is definitely the best distribution. But: I don't know how
lilypond-book can be used with that. In former releases, LilyPond was
based upon cygwin, which was hard to communicate with if you use DOS
commands (what you do when setting up TXC), but possible (I managed it
some time ago, in my dark Windows days, but unfortunately didn't save a
note how I did that. I utilized the cygwin bash somehow... Now I use
Ubuntu and I'm perfectly happy with it ;-) ). In the recent version, I
have no idea how to do that, since it doesn't use cygwin any more.

But let's get back to the way I recommended: I was contacted privately
by a student writing her PhD thesis. She got my email address from the
list's archive. She wanted to do the same things as you, with the same
environment. I suggested her to use pdfcrop, which is much faster and
doesn't require any tweaking. One day later she happily replied that it
worked perfectly.

One day - setting up TXC took me weeks...

Best regards,
John

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Ross Donaldson schrieb:
> John –
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> Thanks for pointing me to that particular chunk of documentation – I
> have, in fact, read a fair heap of documentation for lilypond and
> lilypond-book, but none of it was quite as useful as this. The creation
> of PDFs is also something I just figured out on my own, and is also
> quite helpful. Thanks for both of these things!
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> So MikTeX/TeXNicCenter aren’t ideal for lilypond? Fine by me – I’m not
> attached to either (they’re just what I wound up with on my own). I can
> easily change GUIs or LaTeX implementations, but I can’t change my OS. I
> could probably even handle command-line LaTeX if it meant a
> well-functioning lilypond-book. All this said: can you recommend a LaTeX
> implementation and/or a GUI for Windows that will work well with
> lilypond? If not, I can handle taking the PDF route – I would simply
> prefer a different one.
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> Again, thank you for your time!
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> Very best,
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> Ross M. Donaldson
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