Re: How to start Lilypond

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, Bonnie Rogers <address@hidden> 
writes
> Francisco Vila wrote:
> > El lun, 19 de mar de 2007, a las 01:33:45 +0100, Francisco Vila dijo:
> >   Really you can simply open notepad and save the document as
> > whatever.ly and it will keep its given filename extension, so it
> > should work as a lilypond file.
>
> Not true unless you have experience managing Notepad. When you save the 
> Lilypond test file in Notepad, you must not only type the filename 
> "test.ly" but also change the "Save as type" to "All Files". Otherwise 
> the result will indeed be "test.ly.txt".

An alternative (I haven't tried it as far as I can remember) is to save 
the file as ' "test.ly" '. Apologies for my strange typing, but that 
means "include the double quotes as part of the file name in the "save" 
dialog box".

Apparently wrapping the name in double quotes overrides the automatic 
"add .txt extension" in notepad (or indeed, any other app eg .doc in 
Word).

Cheers,
Wol
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