Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 38, Issue 17

[Paul Scott]

Gordon Gilbert wrote:

> Hi!
>
> If you're using Windoze, you might want to use Wordpad, instead of 
> Notepad as your editor.  I've found on my windoze machine that this is 
> the easiest editor to use -- I think it's part of their distro.  I 
> tried installing jEdit, but only got as far as installing java, and 
> haven't been able to install jEdit itself.  Meantime, I'm having no 
> problems with Wordpad -- I've put it on the desktop to make it easier 
> -- just slide my .ly file (it has no trouble using the .ly extension) 
> into the icon to open, then slide it into the lilypond icon for 
> compiling.

WordPad isn't really a text editor.  It's normal files are RTF files 
which are what Word files are based on.  If you are going to use WordPad 
and save as text you might as well use  MS Word or OpenOffice (neither 
of which I would ever consider for LIly). 

Besides the several editors commonly used by LilyPond people mentioned 
on this list there are several nice shareware editors which really are 
text editors like EditPad.

Paul Scott