Re: [Help-gnu-music] Lilypond error

[Helgi Örn]

Hi David,

You were right, I didn't start Lily with an argument, I know practically
nothing about how to use it. I do have a whole bunch of documents downloaded
from the web but it has obviously not made me any smarter. I have never been
able to find out what music-software to use in Linux, I am a musician and a
composer, the only software I've used as an aid to make music is Sibelius in
Windows. But I don't like working in Windows at all, I am a devoted Linux user
since one year back.
I need to be able to write sheet music for printing and have the possibility to
convert them to MIDI to listen to them.

Do you write the music in an editor or do you do that in Lilypond?

The Lilypond Tutorial starts with an example on a notation of a Bach piece, one
recommends to begin at once with experimenting, but I can't find anything on
how to invoke the program or 'where' to write the script. Cryptic? Yes, to me
it is....:o/

Greetings,
Helgi Örn


On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> Hello Helgi,
> 
> > I've installed Lilypond but when I try to run it with the command
> > 'lilypond this is what I get:
> > 
> > GNU LilyPond 1.2.17.
> > [/usr/share/lilypond/scm/lily.scm]
> > Parsing...[/usr/share/lilypond/ly/init.ly[/usr/share/lilypond/ly/declarations.ly[/usr/share/lilypond/ly/nederlands.ly][/usr/share/lilypond/ly/chord-modifiers.ly][/usr/share/lilypond/ly/script.ly[/usr/share/lilypond/scm/script.scm]][/usr/share/lilypond/ly/generic-paper.ly][/usr/share/lilypond/ly/paper20.ly[/usr/share/lilypond/ly/params.ly[/usr/share/lilypond/ly/a4.ly][/usr/share/lilypond/ly/paper.ly][/usr/share/lilypond/ly/engraver.ly[/usr/share/lilypond/ly/auto-beam-settings.ly][/usr/share/lilypond/ly/auto-beam-settings.ly]]]][/usr/share/lilypond/ly/midi.ly[/usr/share/lilypond/ly/performer.ly]][/usr/share/lilypond/ly/textscripts.ly][/usr/share/lilypond/ly/spanners.ly][/usr/share/lilypond/ly/property.ly]]
> >  
> 
> If this is all you get you probably just typed 'lilypond' without
> arguments. Lilypond is *not* a graphical sheet music editor; it is a
> typesetter. You prepare a text file mymusic.ly in which you formally
> describe your music in the grammar of `mudela' (music definition
> language). You then feed this file to lilypond ('lilypond mymusic.ly') to
> typeset it, after which you can convert the result to your favorite
> printing format (postscript for instance).
> 
> There is pretty much documentation, for instance on www.lilypond.org (I
> guess you got your lilypond straight from your SuSE 7.0 CDs, not from the
> web).
> 
> Cheers,
> David Boersma
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