Re: Newbie needs help with LaTeX/lilypond integration

[Bernard Hurley]

Does LyX work with windows? Maybe with cygwin? If so I have some scripts
for integrating LyX with Lily.  It's all a bit experimental at the
moment, so I am a bit wary of releasing it, but it works for me. If you
think it might help I can gather all the bits together and add some
instructions, but I won't have time to do this till Friday

Bernard

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 20:10 +0100, John Wiedenhoeft wrote:
> 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
> 
> P.S.: For the benefit of other users, please keep the discussion on the
> list. Note that, by pressing the reply button, you will only reply to
> the author if your email client isn't setup properly.
> 
> 
> Ross Donaldson schrieb:
> > John –
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 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!
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Again, thank you for your time!
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Very best,
> > 
> > Ross M. Donaldson
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> 
> 
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