Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Sorry, I can neither activate nor get updates for XP in my virtual machine with a proper licence. I'll bow out of this now. Andrew On 14/10/2022 3:21 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: OK./ I'm running up Windows XP 32 bit on a VM. I'll see if I can help out.

Re: another 'wrong type argument' error

2022-10-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> So you checked all of LilyPond's dependencies and can guarantee >> that it will stay like this forever? > > I am on Big Sur (11.6) and I can still choose 10.9 as a deployment > target. [...] >> I'm not going to work on anything. I have been alone trying to get >> a build for macOS even

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
OK./ I'm running up Windows XP 32 bit on a VM. I'll see if I can help out. Andrew

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I thought I had downloaded the Lilypond file from the list that you > mentioned, but to make sure, I repeated the download and made sure I > downloaded (lilypond-2.22.2-1.mingw.exe) from the list you suggested > for 32 bits systems. Unfortunately, I had the same result as the > first time: >

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread David Wright
On Fri 14 Oct 2022 at 00:16:39 (+), Dag Bergman wrote: > > On Wed 12 Oct 2022 at 23:51:22 (+), Dag Bergman wrote: > > > I have a Windows XP computer with Lilypond 2.10.25. It works fine with > > > simple program codes and advanced code developed with earlier versions of > > > Lilypond.

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Just saying I'm happy to help you out with XP etc but this is probably getting OT, so we could do it offline if you care to. Andrew

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
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RE: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Dag Bergman
Thanks again Werner for your reply. You stated in an earlier email: "You are trying to use a 64bit program in a 32bit environment, which always fails." I thought I had downloaded the Lilypond file from the list that you mentioned, but to make sure, I repeated the download and made sure I

RE: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Dag Bergman
Hi David, Thanks for your reply. I run Windows 10 on a rather powerful Dell-Precision with an i7-7700HQ CPU and 32.0 GB RAM. I run Windows XP on an old computer because I love that operating system as it has a superior user interface to Windows 10. XP makes much better use of the screen

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Still curious now about XP. There's no certainty next versions will work. Andrew On 14/10/2022 10:42 am, Dag Bergman wrote: Thanks Karlin and Michael for your kind replies, and for considering how to test Lilypond versions on a Windows XP machine. It appears to be far too complicated for you

RE: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Dag Bergman
Thanks Karlin and Michael for your kind replies, and for considering how to test Lilypond versions on a Windows XP machine. It appears to be far too complicated for you to do that and I only expected people to take the trouble to reply in case they already knew what was going on. Thank you,

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hello Dag, As mentioned in my post Windows XP is way, way past any support from Microsoft (EOL 2009!). A couple of others have queried why it is necessary for you to be running this system also. Before people go to extraordinary lengths to source XP machines to try to help, would you ever so

Re: Four eighth note beamed when first eighth note looks like a half note

2022-10-13 Thread Knute Snortum
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 1:45 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > > On 2022-10-13 1:31 pm, Knute Snortum wrote: > > I have a situation that seems like it would be straightforward. I > > want four eighth notes beamed with the first eighth looking like a > > half note. I thought I could just do this: > > > > {

Re: Four eighth note beamed when first eighth note looks like a half note

2022-10-13 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2022-10-13 1:31 pm, Knute Snortum wrote: I have a situation that seems like it would be straightforward. I want four eighth notes beamed with the first eighth looking like a half note. I thought I could just do this: { b2*1/4[ b'8 b' b'] } But that code doesn't attach the beam to the

Four eighth note beamed when first eighth note looks like a half note

2022-10-13 Thread Knute Snortum
I have a situation that seems like it would be straightforward. I want four eighth notes beamed with the first eighth looking like a half note. I thought I could just do this: { b2*1/4[ b'8 b' b'] } But that code doesn't attach the beam to the first note and produces two warnings: warning:

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Oct 2022 at 23:51:22 (+), Dag Bergman wrote: > > I have a Windows XP computer with Lilypond 2.10.25. It works fine with > simple program codes and advanced code developed with earlier versions of > Lilypond. It does not work so well when I try to use a newer program > developed

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Karlin High
On 10/13/2022 10:27 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: run legacy software on a Windows XP virtual machine That reminds me -- Windows 7 Pro with its XP Mode based on Microsoft Virtual PC, that would be less of an ask. I have remote access to one of those, but it is at a customer's place and is

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Michael Hendry
On 13 Oct 2022, at 15:35, Karlin High wrote: > > On 10/12/2022 6:51 PM, Dag Bergman wrote: >> I get the error message: “The system cannot execute the specified program.” > > This seems like a pretty broad error. I see mentions of needing Right-Click > -> Properties -> Unblock, to allow a

Re: another 'wrong type argument' error

2022-10-13 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > No problem for a 1.5GHz 32-bit processor with 512MB memory. > BTW the term "plain x86" is almost meaningless. For a start, > are you talking about the processor, or the architecture? > Debian's "amd64" architecture is still an x86, just 64-bit. Well, for one thing one

Re: another 'wrong type argument' error

2022-10-13 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Oct 2022 at 12:06:11 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > On 10/10/2022 06:43, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > The problem isn’t LilyPond’s or its dependencies’ support for older macOS, > > which is better than even the system support. The real problem is Apple > > preventing you from upgrading

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Karlin High
On 10/12/2022 6:51 PM, Dag Bergman wrote: I get the error message: “The system cannot execute the specified program.” This seems like a pretty broad error. I see mentions of needing Right-Click -> Properties -> Unblock, to allow a downloaded executable to run. Other cases involve system

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> How do I know which of the versions listed and offered for download > are for 32 bits or 64 bits systems? *All* versions given in my link are 32bit versions. Recent 64bit versions are provided on gitlab. Note that we no longer provide 32bit versions. Werner

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Hendursaga
Andrew Bernard writes: > Not exactly a supported platform nowadays. [...] I would be curious if (older) LilyPond versions would work under ReactOS[1].. ~ Hendursaga [1] https://reactos.org/

RE: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Dag Bergman
Thanks Karlin for your quick reply. Yes, I used the first link you asked about and found it in the list that your second link leads to. I will try the other two versions you suggested, but if all versions in that list are only for 64 bits system (if I understood Werner's reply correctly),

RE: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-13 Thread Dag Bergman
Thanks Werner for your quick and elaborate reply. I guess you are correct that the error messages I received are due to changes in the syntax between versions of Lilypond. The problem is that using `convert-ly` would probably only work if running an old script with a later version of

Re: another 'wrong type argument' error

2022-10-13 Thread Alex Harker
On 10 Oct 2022, at 20:29, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: > Yes, I build on macOS 10.15 and it will work on versions newer than > that, as also announced with the first release of this infrastructure: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-02/msg00155.html I wanted to say that I didn’t