Re: A new freeware LilyPond editor for Windows

[Rick Hansen (aka RickH)]

Thanks, this highlighter is making my work easier too and increased my
understanding of how lp language works.

> One question : Do you know how to use convert-ly under windows ? Is this a
> separate program I cannot find or it is a command to add with
> lilypond(-windows).exe I did not find ? The doc is only dealing with unix
> or
> Mac.

I have not had the need for conversion yet because my scores worked fine the
last time I upgraded.  It is a command line just like lp, see section 12.3
of the current manual.  Make sure you've backed-up your files before
conversion and that the version number is present in the files you are
converting.

Rick





Thibaut Chevalier-2 wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the information, I have just downloaded ConTEXT and installed
> your highlighting file and user commands and everything is working very
> nice. I had endless problems with jEdit so I am glad you told about
> ConTEXT.
> I also find ConTEXT far better, particularly to access the different
> opened
> files (with the explorer on the left or the tabs).
> 
> One question : Do you know how to use convert-ly under windows ? Is this a
> separate program I cannot find or it is a command to add with
> lilypond(-windows).exe I did not find ? The doc is only dealing with unix
> or
> Mac.
> 
> And one suggestion : You should add in your text at the top of the .chl
> file
> to turn on the option : "Capture console output" for the compile user key
> (F9...), else we don't know what happens (because the windows console
> auto-close at the end of the compilation).
> 
> Anyway thanks very much for your work on the highlighting !
> 
> 
> Thibaut.
> 
> 
> 
> On 24/07/06, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just created and uploaded a syntax highlighting file for the ConTEXT
>> editor.
>>
>> www.context.cx
>>
>> http://www.context.cx http://www.context.cx
>>
>> Look in the "forum" section for the highlighting file I uploaded and some
>> instructions at the top for setting up the Function keys to do compiles,
>> views, midi, etc.
>>
>> After using jEdit for a while I found ConTEXT to be far, far, far
>> superior
>> on the Windows platform.  ConTEXT editor is light and very fast, whereby
>> jEdit would take 30 seconds or more to open large or many files (over 1
>> meg).  (But Java apps generally do run slow on Windows.)  Also the jEdit
>> highlighter misses a lot of reserved words.
>>
>> I have included every LilyPond user-public reserved word I can find
>> through
>> version 2.8.5.  Also it will highlight imbedded Scheme code separately
>> making LP proper much easier to read and keep separated from Scheme.  It
>> also separates Context objects from Layout objects, hilights strings,
>> comments, markup commands, properties, action words like \set and
>> \override
>> differently, etc.  I came up with several thousand LP reserved words and
>> categorized them all, I also tested this hilighter with all the LP
>> regression and input files.
>>
>> The only minor highlighting glitch I found with ConTEXT is that string
>> ending quotes cannot be on a line by themselves (they must end the string
>> immediately, or if they are on their own line they must be preceeded with
>> a
>> space and not the carriage return)  Other than that, this editor is
>> pretty
>> simple and pretty darn good at hilighting LP syntax.  I've also had about
>> 100 files open simultaneously with no performance problems in it.
>>
>> As new versions of LP arise I'll add reserved words as needed to the
>> highlighting file.
>>
>> After installing ConTEXT, just download "LilyPond.chl" from the forum
>> area
>> and copy it to:
>>
>> "C:\Program Files\ConTEXT\Highlighters"
>>
>> Close and Re-Open ConTEXT.
>>
>> Now whenever you open up .LY files in ConTEXT they will be syntactically
>> highlighted.
>>
>> Then read the blurb I wrote at the top of the LilyPond.chl file to show
>> how
>> to set up your F9 and F10 keys to compile and view your music in the
>> ConTEXT
>> command shell.
>>
>> Have fun
>> Rick
>>
>>
>>
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