Thanks for the replies Jan and Mats, very much appreciated.
Have got Lily running now by:
Installing 1.8.0 on Curr from cygwin-get-software, then updating with
Exp option from the same site.
With the overwrite bash.exe to sh.exe, ly2dvi works OK, but I'm getting I
can't find lilyponddefs.tex
Thanks Mats for the advice on Unix (BASH). I must try and learn BASH, I'd
love to be able to set up a script file to update my 90 odd lily files for
the new version number, and to change those dummy \transpose c' 's to
\transpose c' c' I used to do this sort of thing with DOS batch files in
I'm getting the same
Running Latex...cannot create/dev/stderr: directory
error from my downloaded Lily 1.8.0 (cygwin).
Comparing my files with those you mention 26 Aug, Mats,
(albeit that those files were for Heinz Wallisch's 1.6.11 installation)
the following are missing on mine:
base-files
I hope you saw Jan's answer,
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-08/msg00390.html
If you are not that familiar to UNIX, you could for example do:
- Start the Cygwin command window
- Run the command: cp /bin/bash /bin/sh
- Close the command window with exit
Now, LilyPond should
Warren Stickney writes:
I'm getting the same
Running Latex...cannot create/dev/stderr: directory
error from my downloaded Lily 1.8.0 (cygwin).
Could you try and reinstall, 1.8.1 has been uploaded and should fix
this.
Comparing my files with those you mention 26 Aug, Mats,
(albeit that
Thorkil Wolvendans writes:
I just installed Lilypond 1.8 (cygwin edition), and tested 'Petite
Ouverture a Danser' with it (example file on the website). Now, it
seems to work allright, but it doesn't make a pdf file. Could it have
something to do with Latex? When installing from the cygwin
