Please read http://lilypond.org/web/download/windows.html to get started.
Are you sure that the third file was called .lytxt? If it was called .lytex, then you can't use the double-click feature of ordinary .ly files but have to do something like the following:
- Copy the files to the directory C:/cygwin/home/<your login name>/ - Click on the Cygwin window to get a Cygwin command prompt. - Run the following commands: lilypond-book <filename>.lytex latex <filename>.tex dvips -Ppdf -u+lilypond <filename>.dvi which should give you a .pdf file with the score.
However, since LilyPond is still under heavy development, there's a large risk that your .ly files don't match the LilyPond version that you installed. In that case, you may first have to run the command convert-ly -e *.ly which (hopefully) will update all the syntax to your version.
I know this seems like a big mess if you just want to see a single score, but there have been lots of emails on the list from people who after a week or so of LilyPond usage claim that it not only produces nicer typography than most other programs but that it also is faster to enter music this way.
Good luck!
/Mats
Tom Duda wrote:
Hello
Because I don't see that Lilypond 2.3 has been ported to Windows, I downloaded and installed 2.2. When I launch lilypond-bin.exe, I see an empty Command Prompt for a few seconds and then it closes.
My OS is Win XP Media Center with all critical updates installed. My CPU is Pentium IV 2.6 gHz with 512 megs RAM and 30+ gigs free space on the partition in which Lilypond resides. pagefile.sys is 1.6 gigs.
When I ran setup.exe, I left all packages at "Default" except for the folder that contains Lilypond. In that folder, I selected Lilypond and accepted the other items that became active in that folder. If it matters, I chose planetmirror.org as the source server.
What is most frustrating is that I have just one music score, apparently consisting of three files, that I want to see. For some reason, the person who made the score available did not save it in PostScript format. I have two files with a .ly extension and one with .lytxt extension.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. :-)
Tom Duda
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