Hello Xavier, I haven't tested either of these versions - I read something that I interpreted to mean that something that LilyPond depends on had been upgraded and no longer runs on Windows 7 or 8.1 with the effect that later versions of Lilypond won't. This is beyond my technical understanding of the composition of the environment and I don't recall what the something was (though I think it begins with "g") so I took it at face value.
Best Giles ________________________________ From: Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> Sent: 14 May 2024 15:15 To: Giles Boardman <giles.board...@hotmail.co.uk> Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Naming lines of music On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 15:43, Giles Boardman <giles.board...@hotmail.co.uk<mailto:giles.board...@hotmail.co.uk>> wrote: > > Thanks again Xavier. You are very patient - I have just sat down at my > up-to-date computer and the difference between the versions' functionality is > enormous. If I'd realised, I would have bitten the bullet and had fewer > questions and taken up less of everyone's time. My apologies. Out of > interest, is there somewhere that tells me the last version of Lilypond that > would run on Windows 8.1. Perhaps there is a sweet spot for me - my layout > requirements are largely satisfied by these very simple layouts. Hello, Well apparently Jean added the sentence "(Windows 7 and Windows 8 are not supported)" for 2.24.0. https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/commit/c9fa78c28d26661f1176bd8e1b13c574e71e9664 That being said, LilyPond >2.24 does not support Windows <8.1 mainly because Microsoft itself has ended support for Windows 8.1. Maybe LilyPond 2.24 or 2.25 still do run on Wondows 8.1. Have you tested? Kind regards, Xavier
