Re: [Help-gnu-music] Lilypond error

[Helgi Örn]

Ok, Ok, I'll study!

I'm running SuSE 7.0, the Lilypond directory is in /usr/share/doc/packages/ and
there are a whole lot of sample files too ,so perhaps I can try to figure out
how this beast works.
Of course I'll use Emacs and nothing else....;o)

Thank's,
Helgi Örn


[snip]
> > 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/
> 
Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>
> I think it's pretty clear in the tutorial, it says:
> "Enter it (in a text file called menuet.ly) ... invoke lilypond with 
> 'ly2dvi menuet' ... view it with 'xdvi menuet'. 
> 
> If you want to print it on paper, run 'ly2dvi -P menuet.ly'
> which will give you a printable Postscript file menuet.ps.
> 
> To enter the text file describing the music, use your favourite
> text editor (my favourite is Emacs). If you're used to a mouse
> controlled music editor, this is a completely different way of
> thinking, but it's mostly faster than using a mouse interface.
> 
> If you installed from a RPM, the ready-made example file menuet.ly
> is probably available in 
> /usr/doc/packages/lilypond/input/tutorial/menuet.ly
> 
>      /Mats
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