Starting up

[Tomas Valusek]

Hello,

I'm a Czech music teacher. I'm visually impaired, so creating scores 
graphically is very tiring for my eyes. I just downloaded and installed 
LilyPond 2.8.1 on WindowsXP Pro Czech edition. As a Czech user, I'd like 
to use Czech accented characters within text elements in LilyPond.

1. I have never used Unicode-capable text editor, all my plain-text 
files are stored using cp1250 codepage. I'd like to use Notepad++ (based 
on Scintilla engine) as an input file editor. Is there any support for 
this editor? How to save an input file so that CZ characters appear 
correctly in output?

2. Is there a way to output LilyPond score as a raster image with preset 
dpi value (e.g. 300, 600 dpi), so that I could create short music 
examples and insert them as images into Windows word processor?

Thank you for your help.

Tomas Valusek