Well,actually TeXnicCenter IS the best GUI for LaTeX under Windows, and MikTeX is definitely the best distribution. But: I don't know how lilypond-book can be used with that. In former releases, LilyPond was based upon cygwin, which was hard to communicate with if you use DOS commands (what you do when setting up TXC), but possible (I managed it some time ago, in my dark Windows days, but unfortunately didn't save a note how I did that. I utilized the cygwin bash somehow... Now I use Ubuntu and I'm perfectly happy with it ;-) ). In the recent version, I have no idea how to do that, since it doesn't use cygwin any more.
But let's get back to the way I recommended: I was contacted privately by a student writing her PhD thesis. She got my email address from the list's archive. She wanted to do the same things as you, with the same environment. I suggested her to use pdfcrop, which is much faster and doesn't require any tweaking. One day later she happily replied that it worked perfectly. One day - setting up TXC took me weeks... Best regards, John P.S.: For the benefit of other users, please keep the discussion on the list. Note that, by pressing the reply button, you will only reply to the author if your email client isn't setup properly. Ross Donaldson schrieb: > John – > > > > Thanks for pointing me to that particular chunk of documentation – I > have, in fact, read a fair heap of documentation for lilypond and > lilypond-book, but none of it was quite as useful as this. The creation > of PDFs is also something I just figured out on my own, and is also > quite helpful. Thanks for both of these things! > > > > So MikTeX/TeXNicCenter aren’t ideal for lilypond? Fine by me – I’m not > attached to either (they’re just what I wound up with on my own). I can > easily change GUIs or LaTeX implementations, but I can’t change my OS. I > could probably even handle command-line LaTeX if it meant a > well-functioning lilypond-book. All this said: can you recommend a LaTeX > implementation and/or a GUI for Windows that will work well with > lilypond? If not, I can handle taking the PDF route – I would simply > prefer a different one. > > > > Again, thank you for your time! > > > > Very best, > > Ross M. Donaldson > > > > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
