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Re: Too many icons on desktop


From: Francisco Vila
Subject: Re: Too many icons on desktop
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:47:11 +0200

2008/7/19 Riccardo La Spina <address@hidden>:
> The program is not starting,

It doesn't have to "start" in a traditional sense. Put an example of a
program that starts, LilyPond is not one of them.

> and all I get is the ".ly" file opening
> itself followed by a command prompt.

No, the "command prompt" comes before. It is a DOS session waiting for
you to close the editor.

> This happens in as many as 2 or 3
> manifestations of these files opening themselves up, simultaneously.

Once for each time you have double-clicked the lilypond icon.

> This
> happens no matter how often I follow rhe less-than-consistant
> instructions in the "ly" file, because the PDF it refers to as
> "Welcome_to_LilyPond.PDF" does not appear to exist.

If you have followed the steps 1 and 2, lilypond performs the step 3
creating this file.

I agree with you in a point: "File->Save" leaves the file with its
preset name in an unknown place, whereas "File->Save as" gets this
preset name lost and you'll have to write down your own name, do it,
please save the file as whatever.ly into the Desktop as step 1, then
follow the step 2 and you will obtain a PDF called whatever.pdf as
step 3.

> There's just no
> getting the program to run on my computer (I downloaded 'for windows'
> version, and have  the VISTA OS). Thanks

If you are able to reach the step 4, lilypond does not to be run
again, it has already run and finished, please read the tutorial
and/or
http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Where_is_the_app%3F
then return here and make any comments.

-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
http://www.paconet.org




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