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Re: issues with installing Lilypond
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tim |
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Re: issues with installing Lilypond |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:26:20 -0400 |
On 19 Sep 2022 at 17:55, Cluanie Fraser wrote:
>
> Hi Tim,
> Thanks for responding. I´m really struggling as I´m quite out of depth
> with this tech stuff.
> This is what shows up when I download the Lilypond file from the website
> and double
> click to open it.
You've opened it in Notepad, which is for text files. What you have opened is
definitely NOT a
text file.
> I tried downloading Denemo and that kind of worked but doesn´t let me
> edit the music in
> the lilypond text file, I can only do it graphically which isn´t ideal.
I know next to nothing about Denomo, but I think it's a graphical music editor,
which would
work with files in its own format, and would know nothing about Lilypond (*.ly)
files.
I you have an existing *.ly file, open it in a text editor (or maybe better yet
Frescobaldi, which I
gave you a URL for). And read the Learning manual, which I also gave you the
URL for. The
*.ly file probably will make no sense to you until you read the Learning manual.
There is certainly a learning curve with Lilypond, but the results are worth it.
> I appreciate any help; I feel like it shouldn´t be this difficult!
>
> Cluanie
>
>
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows
>
> From: tim@risingdove.com
> Sent: 09 September 2022 15:16
> To: li.lypond-user@gnu.org; Cluanie Fraser
> Subject: Re: issues with installing Lilypond
>
> On 9 Sep 2022 at 11:21, Cluanie Fraser wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > I´m struggling to download lilypond and wondering if it´s supported on
> Windows 11?
>
> It certainly runs on Win11, that's how I use it.
>
> > When I download the Lilypond file it opens as a huge encrypted text
> file on
> Notepad.
>
> It's basically a command line application. You prepare a file for it to
> process and it spits
> out a
> PDF. For the basics of how to use it, download the Learning manual at
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/learning/index.html
>
> Also, check out Frescobaldi at frescobaldi.org. That's a multiplatform
> front-end for Lily
> that
> makes writing, editing, and compiling your Lilypond input easier.
>
> And continue to ask questions here.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> tim@risingdove.com
>
>
--
Tim Slattery
tim@risingdove.com