Sirs: I have spent hours trying to get Lilypond downloaded and working on my 3 systems: Win98, WinXP, and Mandrake Linux 10.0.
Win 98 the Python hung up; but I got the test to run once. When I copied a score example to try something more I got errors (lilylib missing or Bash won't run the Lilypond source). WinXP saves Lilypond input code as *.txt, no matter what; and I can't get it to calm down. The downloaded test file worked because WinXP didn't name it. WinXP also has a thing about calling Adobe Reader and wants to install the Windows Journal Reader, which I don't have on my computer. That way it kills the Adobe start-up. The Lilypond log says: error this error that, etc. Mandrake lets me upload Thac's RPM's and install Lilypond. The Joe text editor is awful; is there a better one? After much fooling I got a Lilypond code on a Joe file in my home folder. I called Lilypond from a terminal and gave the full filename before it could find it, then it says stuff like Dvips doesn't work, Adobe isn't around, error, scream, yell. I tried this from start many times and spent a whole day on it. I know the Adobe reader is installed; I can call it myself. Can you direct me? I tried to follow your instructions for installing the stable version of Lilypond and re-installed it a few times from the Internet. I don't know what else to try. Sarah Cordish Musician about to give up. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
