Helge: Thank you for the explanation. Phil: Thank you for the link. Since I am not running lilypond in command mode. I use frescobaldi as front end to execute lilypond. I run both lilypond-windows.exc and lilypond.exc and I don't see any difference. I can see the log file under frescobaldi. Immanuel,Ming From: Phil Holmes <[email protected]> To: Helge Kruse <[email protected]>; MING TSANG <[email protected]> Cc: Lilypond-user Mailinglist <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 4:02 AM Subject: Re: lilypond-windows.exc vs lilypond-exc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helge Kruse" <[email protected]> To: "MING TSANG" <[email protected]> Cc: "Lilypond-user Mailinglist" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 4:59 AM Subject: Re: lilypond-windows.exc vs lilypond-exc
> There is lilypond.exe and lilypond-windows.exe in the Lilypond edition > for Microsoft Windows. > You use lilypond.exe when you want to capture the output of the > program, e.g. error messages. > lilypond-windows.exe opens a new window, outputs the messages in this > windows and closes it finally.I usually make mistakes and want to see > the messages, so I use always lilypond.exe > > Regards > Helge This is covered quite nicely in the documentation: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/command_002dline-usage "Note to Windows users: By default lilypond.exe outputs all progress information to the command window,lilypond-windows.exe does not and returns a prompt, with no progress information, immediately at the command line. The'-dgui' option can be used in this case to redirect output to a log file." -- Phil Holmes
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