Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Tarenskeen" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user mailinglist" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: Lilypond for blind musicians


> On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, claudio garanzini wrote:
>
> >  Hi all! Thanks for your suggestions! Could you please give mee an
> >  example of how to create a lilypond file from a midi file? I've read
> >  the page Federico suggested but it's a bit complicated for mee. So, if
> >  I'm right, I would write, for example: midi2ly thenb the name of my
> >  midi file. But I don't understand in what directory have I to be for
> >  this operation!
>
> midi2ly should be in a directory that is listed in your system's PATH 
> environment variable. Then it will always be found wherever you are. (I am 
> not a Windows user. Does the LilyPond installer for Windows take care of 
> this automatically?)

No - it used to, but this caused problems for users with multiple versions.

> your source file can be anywhere if you call it with a complete pathname, 
> but easiest is when it is in your current directory where you can call it 
> with just the filename. Even without ".ly" it will work.
>
> you can provide an output name with the -o option
>
> If you don't use the -o option, midi2ly will automatically generate a 
> destination filename from the source file.
>
> BTW: the most important commandline option to start with is probably -h.
> Try
>  midi2ly -h

"c:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr"\bin\midi2ly

is likely to be the correct command line on a standatd windows install

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Phil Holmes