Phil,
The obvious thing would (IMHO) seem to be to add right-click menu items for .ly
files. "Edit" goes to Lilypad (or Frescobaldi etc....), "Engrave" goes to
Lilypond. All with suitable arguments in the command lines. Unfortunately,
since MS withdrew support for this feature for normal users, I can't help in
the registry manipulation details. No doubt they're somewhere hidden in the MS
application developer kit documentation (which I don't have).
There's a possible conflict here in that 3rd party editors such as Frescobaldi
manipulate the default program as I understand it. I have no idea what the
implications are - sorry.
Now I've discovered Frescobaldi it may not be such an issue. But I'm still
trying to get it to work (only tried for about a minute so far, though).
Best regards,
Peter
mailto:[email protected]
www.ptoye.com
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Monday, April 15, 2013, 10:06:34 AM, you wrote:
If you would be willing to make suggestions about what the changes should be,
we would try to incorporate them.
--
Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Toye
To: Federico Bruni
Cc: lilypond-user Mailinglist
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie problems
I've realised that there's a silly problem here, which isn't Lilypond's fault.
One really needs two different defaults for opening a .ly file: one to edit it
(Lilypad, Frescobaldi etc.) and one to engrave it (Lilypond). And Microsoft,
curse them, in Windows 7 and later removed the possibility for users to add
menu items to the right-click on an icon. I'm told that you can still do it
with a registry fix (dangerous), but that's not much consolation.
Maybe the documentation could do with a bit of tweaking here?
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Sunday, April 14, 2013, 1:38:44 PM, you wrote:
2013/4/14 Peter Toye <[email protected]>
Just starting to try out Lilypond, and finding a few problems in getting to
work at all.
The OS is Windows 7, if that makes any difference.
which version of lilypond?
1) Double-clicking on a .ly file gets into Wordpad, and doesn't compile the
file. To compile it I have to drag-and-drop the file onto the Lilypond icon on
the desktop. This doesn't seem to conform to the documentation.
I think that you have to associate the .ly extension with Lilypad.
BTW, I recommend using Frescobaldi instead of Lilypad:
http://frescobaldi.org/download
2) Once it's compiled there's no output, just a log file without errors (see
below).
# -*-compilation-*-
Processing `D:/Peter/Music/Lilypond/Warlock1.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...[8]
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
can you see a pdf file here?
D:/Peter/Music/Lilypond/Warlock1.pdf
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