Re: Newbie problems

[Peter Toye]

Phil,

The obvious thing would (IMHO) seem to be to add right-click menu items for .ly files. "Edit" goes to Lilypad (or Frescobaldi etc....), "Engrave" goes to Lilypond. All with suitable arguments in the command lines. Unfortunately, since MS withdrew support for this feature for normal users, I can't help in the registry manipulation details. No doubt they're somewhere hidden in the MS application developer kit documentation (which I don't have).

There's a possible conflict here in that 3rd party editors such as Frescobaldi manipulate the default program as I understand it. I have no idea what the implications are - sorry.

Now I've discovered Frescobaldi it may not be such an issue. But I'm still trying to get it to work (only tried for about a minute so far, though).

Best regards,

Peter
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Monday, April 15, 2013, 10:06:34 AM, you wrote:



If you would be willing to make suggestions about what the changes should be, we would try to incorporate them. -- Phil Holmes     ----- Original Message -----  From: Peter Toye To: Federico Bruni Cc: lilypond-user Mailinglist Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 9:46 AM Subject: Re: Newbie problems I've realised that there's a silly problem here, which isn't Lilypond's fault. One really needs two different defaults for opening a .ly file: one to edit it (Lilypad, Frescobaldi etc.) and one to engrave it (Lilypond). And Microsoft, curse them, in Windows 7 and later removed the possibility for users to add menu items to the right-click on an icon. I'm told that you can still do it with a registry fix (dangerous), but that's not much consolation. Maybe the documentation could do with a bit of tweaking here? ------------------------- Sunday, April 14, 2013, 1:38:44 PM, you wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list address@hidden https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user