Re: Trying to start once again...

[Tim Woodall]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Michael Falkenburg wrote:

> ...after a VERY Long hiatus.
>
> There a couple of problems I'm experiencing:
>
> 1) Trying to use Ubuntu (it's Ibex), I just can't seem to install LilyPond 
> (ver. 2.10.33-1) correctly. There's no icon for it on the Desktop.  JEdit 
> (4.3pre16) works fine...but there no "obvious" connection between the 
> two...hence WHY I think I haven't installed LP the way it should. And then 
> again, I'm pretty sure that LilyPondTool is set up OK with jEdit.
>
> 2) In the past (pre-Ubuntu or ANY Linux use on my part), and now, I've also 
> installed these 3 programs on my XP box. At least there I've got the icon on 
> the Desktop. But dragging the sample to it produces an error message about 
> how the .pdf file doesn't exist.
>
> I sort of remember that in the past that a path needed to be set a certain 
> way...but like I said, 'sort of remember'.
>
> If you can respond (soon) it sure would help me a lot...it's snowing (again) 
> and I have no need/plans to go anywhere. Just the perfect time to start 
> working with Lilypond once again.
I can't help you with Ubuntu specifics but just to get started, once
you've created your .ly file just open a terminal, cd to the directory
where you're .ly files are and then type lilypond whatever.ly

On my Debian system that would be:
<start>->Debian->Applications->Shells->bash

And then in the window that appears:
address@hidden:~$ cd cvs/lilypond
address@hidden:~/cvs/lilypond$ lilypond beethoven-liszt.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.10.33
Processing `beethoven-liszt.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...  [8][16][24][32][40][48][56][64][72][80][88][96]
[104][112][120][128][136][144][152][160][168][176][184][192][200][208]
[216][224][232][240][248][256][264][272][278]
Preprocessing graphical objects...
beethoven-liszt.ly:1089:39: warning: ignoring too many clashing note
columns
    \times 2/3 {a gis fis} \times 2/3 {
                                       e b' e}
Layout output to `beethoven-liszt.ps'...
Converting to `beethoven-liszt.pdf'...
address@hidden:~/cvs/lilypond$

And they you can view that pdf however you normally view it.

Tim.


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