Re: How to get it working.

2004-10-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christ van Willegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Sarah wrote: WinXP saves Lilypond input code as *.txt, no matter what; and I can't get it to calm down. Do you edit this in Notepad? Here's a tip if you di use it: Enclose the filename in the save dialog in... When you

How to get it working.

2004-10-09 Thread Sarah Cordish
Sirs: I have spent hours trying to get Lilypond downloaded and working on my 3 systems: Win98, WinXP, and Mandrake Linux 10.0. Win 98 the Python hung up; but I got the test to run once. When I copied a score example to try something more I got errors (lilylib missing or Bash won't run the

Re: How to get it working.

2004-10-09 Thread Jan Kohnert
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

How to get it working. Part 2.

2004-10-09 Thread Sarah Cordish
The input example was copied from your documentation web page. \score { \notes { \time 3/4 \clef bass c2 e4 g2. f4 e d c2 r4 } } The above was saved on desktop as LILY2.ly and I called cygwin. This is a copy of the screen: Your group is

Re: How to get it working. Part 2.

2004-10-09 Thread Bertalan Fodor
For Windows: I recommend using WinXP, because 98 can't run python well. For editing I recommend jedit,(www.jedit.org) it has syntax highlighting and a downloadable plugin for LilyPond that makes it easy to compile and view scores. For learning I recommend using the Document Wizard of this

Re: How to get it working.

2004-10-09 Thread Christ van Willegen
Sarah wrote: WinXP saves Lilypond input code as *.txt, no matter what; and I can't get it to calm down. Do you edit this in Notepad? Here's a tip if you di use it: Enclose the filename in the save dialog in... When you save a file as test.ly with the quotes included, it will be saved as