Re: Newbie problems

[Federico Bruni]

2013/4/14 Peter Toye <address@hidden>

Just starting to try out Lilypond, and finding a few problems in getting to work at all.

The OS is Windows 7, if that makes any difference.

which version of lilypond?

 

1) Double-clicking on a .ly file gets into Wordpad, and doesn't compile the file. To compile it I have to drag-and-drop the file onto the Lilypond icon on the desktop. This doesn't seem to conform to the documentation.

I think that you have to associate the .ly extension with Lilypad.

BTW, I recommend using Frescobaldi instead of Lilypad:

http://frescobaldi.org/download

 

2) Once it's compiled there's no output, just a log file without errors (see below).

# -*-compilation-*-
Processing `D:/Peter/Music/Lilypond/Warlock1.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...[8]
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
  

can you see a pdf file here?

D:/Peter/Music/Lilypond/Warlock1.pdf