Hi MJ,
> I am trying to transpose a Messiah lilypond file from mutopia: > http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/HandelGF/HWV56/Messiah/Messiah-lys.zip > > However I'm not getting very far, could use a bit of help.... > > Extracting the zip gives a folder structure like: > > > |-common > |-Haendel > |---Oratorio > |-----Messiah > |-------AAsinfonia > ..... (many more) > |-------CGchorus > |-------CHairSoprano > |-------CIchorus > |-------CJchorus > |-lilypond-patches > |-out > |-templates > > So, looking at this, there is a main.ly in ./Haendel/Oratorio/Messiah > which I opened in frescobaldi, but I can't compile it, as all the paths > in main.ly look like "\include "Haendel/Oratorio/Messiah/common.ily" The aforementioned include tries to include the file common.ily, which is in the same folder as the main.ly you are trying to convert. Given that there is also a directory ./common which hold a couple of other to-be-included files I'd add the directory that you extracted your ZIP in to frescobaldi's include paths. E.g. the absolute path to your main.ly would be /home/mj/my-lp-scores/from_mutopia/Haendel/Oratorio/Messiah/main.ly then add "/home/mj/my-lp-scores/from_mutopia/" (or ~/my-lp-scores/from_mutopia/) to frescobaldi's include paths. Kind regards, Michael -- Michael Gerdau email: m...@qata.de GPG-keys available on request or at public keyserver _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user