Re: lilypond-book setup for windows

[Hajo Dezelski]

Hello,

thanks for the input.

After some hours of working with latex and several editors on windows
and mac I decided to take the easy road: OpenOffice with the
OOoLilypond Macro. It works not always as I thought, but with time I
will find some workarounds.

Three reasons for the decision:

1. When I write a text I want to focus on the contents. I dont want to
see all these formating tags. It is for me also much harder to proof
read the text.

2. I am used to work with strongly structured contents.So I will
develop my stylesheet and stick to it. It will be similar to the
Lilypond-documentation.

3. Most importent: I have the possibility to export the notation and
the text to pdf, html and xml. So when there is a need, I can switch
back to LaTex.

By the way this is for me the easiest way to produce incipits for my wiki.

Thanks again

Hajo

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On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Carl D. Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 3/27/09 4:56 AM, "Hajo Dezelski" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> I was afraid of that - back to square one -
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>> In the early 90s I had a quarrel with my former boss who wanted to
>> force me to TeX and later LaTex and I, working on a Mac, was a vivid
>> Wysiwyg advocator. I won.
>>
>> Now - I have yet not decided which output would be appropriate (pdf or
>> html) so I will give it a try with Latex and WinEdt. Is there a
>> "stylesheet" for the Lilypond Documentationproject which I can use as
>> a starting point without the need to invent my own proper layout?
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>> @Carl: I am still switching between Mac and Windows (jEdit). What kind
>> of system are you actually using on your Mac?
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> I use Terminal and vim to do my LilyPond editing.  I have two terminal
> windows open:  one with vim, and one with the lilypond command.  I write the
> file from the vim window, switch to the command window, hit the up arrow key
> and the enter key, then switch to the Preview window to see how things came
> out.
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> I use Preview to display my PDF files.
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> I use TeXShop form my LaTeX work.
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> I've not done any work with lilypond-book; it's on my to-do list for my
> hoped-for guitar songbook.
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> As far as a starting point, try the two *.latex files found in
> Documentation/user.  That should get you started.
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> HTH,
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> Carl
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