Re: Lilypond Installation Problems

[Jan Kohnert]

Hello,

Am Freitag, 5. März 2004 18:17 schrieb Edwin Spector:
> Hello,
>
> I just ran through the installation of Cygwin/Lilypond. I downloaded the
> test.ly file, but it does not appear to have any association with Lilypond.
> The PC doesn't know what to open it with.

You can open *.ly-Files with every editor (maybe notepad on Win???, but there 
are surely better progs available).

> I'm running Win2k. I do have the
> Cygwin icon on my Start menu.

That's good. :-)
Open a cygwin console by clicking on the icon. Lilypond is not as most (all) 
progs you might know on Win. There is no graphical interface. You just write 
a textfile in your favorite editor, surely in a special way; see the 
indroduction on the website.
Then you can run
lilypond FILE.ly OR ly2dvi FILE.ly (depends on what version you use; versions 
since 2.0.0 use the first one, prior the last)
and you get some files of the music you just wrote. Most likely you want to 
have the ps/pdf-Files which you can wach in Acrobat Reader or Ghostview.

> Where is the Lilypond program?

If installed correctly, it should be in "/usr/bin/lilypond" in the 
cygwin-console. But just typing lilypond should work.

> Thanks

Your welcome!!!

> Edwin
> Bath, UK.

Regards Jan

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