Re: ver. 2.11.56 problems

[Gilles Sadowski]

Hello.

> [...]
>
> For what it's worth.
> 
> And again...thanks for all the help people have offered me since I've
> arrive here. I now have a very good looking score in front of me, as
> fruits for this labor - and more to come. I'm loving the experience I'm
> having here, mostly. I'd love to give a little talk about Lilypad at our
> lively local Classical Guitar Society, but I'm not going to. I don't
> want to witness the carnage.
> 

I've not read the whole thread, so some of the following might have been
said already but anyway...

1. Why try to install the development version of Lilypond if your
   distribution provides one which has probably been checked for smooth
   integration with the other packages it needs?
   If you are new to Lilypond, you can probably do whatever you need with
   the last stable version.

2. Using the software provided by a Linux distribution is not more
   complicated than using that other well-known operating system.
   Not everyone will be able to manage the system (i.e. install/configure/
   uninstall/troubleshoot) but the same is true for M$-Windows (where people
   usually just reinstall everything with the "recovery" CD when things
   start to behave strangely, as if this were perfectly normal).

3. Using the lilypond program (on Linux) amounts to learn the following 2
   commands:
    $ lilypond myfyle.ly
    $ xpdf myfile.pdf
   That certainly should not scare away people motivated by the nice printed
   scores which this software produces. [Of course, assuming that people
   know what a file is, how to edit its contents and what a command is.]


Best,
Gilles