On 18/12 03:35:48, henry wrote: > i just downloaded this today, and tried fiddling with a few > notes...i just can't figure out how to make the actual sheet music > document.
Start with a Lilypond text file, eg. "bling.ly", then run (from a command line) "lilypond bling.ly" - it should create (among other things) a file "bling.pdf". View that in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Get the above working first, then everything should be clear. :-) There are lots of different .ly files you can try "lilyponding" on http://mutopiaproject.org/ , and there should also be a few examples in the Lilypond distribution you've installed. Or you can grab a copy of this, which I put together while teaching myself Lilypond a few months ago: http://flooble.net/~pete/deep-river.ly > also, how do you get the view seen in the sample, the on > one with the three windows (one with the code, one with the sheet > music and one with some other stuff..=/ ) its on the top of the > "crash course" page. This one? http://lilypond.org/web/switch/howto > is it a certain software? if it is, could someone tell me how/where > to get it, and what the heck to do with it? lol There's three separate GUI programs in that screenshot - one is a terminal, one is Emacs (a text editor, being used to edit the file les-nereides.ly), and the third is gv (a program that can view the Postscript output from Lilypond). (I normally convert the postscript straight into PDF and use a PDF viewer (like, eg. Adobe Acrobat Reader) to look at it, not bothering with the Postscript output) Depending on how good your eyesight is :), you can see from the terminal that the user has run lilypond input/les-nereides.ly ...which generates some text messages, along with the postscript file les-nereides.ps, then the user runs: gv les-nereides.ps ...to run the "gv" program to view the generated postscript file. You can also see just before running the "gv" program, there's a line: Converting to `les-nereides.pdf'... ...which is what modern Lilyponds do by default. So the user could also have run Acrobat Reader (or another PDF viewer) to view the PDF. Hope that helps a bit, Pete. -- The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day that they start making vacuum cleaners. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
