Sarah Cordish schrieb: > Sirs: Hi,
> Mandrake lets me upload Thac's RPM's and install Lilypond. The Joe text > editor is awful; is there a better one? Do you have a graphical Interface? If yes, try using nedit or gedit/kwrite (if you have Gnome/KDE). I'm using wrtie and it works well for me. If you don't have a graphical interface, try using nano or mcedit, which I for myself think to me more intuitive(?) than vi/vim/joe... But I know it's a matter of taste. > After much fooling I got a > Lilypond code on a Joe file in my home folder. I called Lilypond from a > terminal OK, you seem to have X. > 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. No, don't screem, just tell about your error messages and we will be able to help you. > 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. Are you trying to install 2.2.x? 2.0.x does not call acroread. But maybe the binary is not in your $PATH (at least in the terminal your starting lily in)? > 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. Please post the complete output when you execute lily. > Sarah Cordish > Musician about to give up. HTH, so don't give up! Best regards Jan -- Caution, new Key!!! OpenPGP public key available: http://home.arcor.de/jan.kohnert/gnupg_publickey.asc Key-Fingerprint: 0E9B 4052 C661 5018 93C3 4E46 651A 7A28 4028 FF7A _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
