Hello David: Thanks for this.
Your suggestions are, of course, the obvious ones, and very good indeed. But I am not sufficiently familiar with Unix-style command-line syntax to make the task of following them as easy as I would like it to be. Have you any suggestions for a quick way for one to familiarize oneself with this syntax? Anyway, the error I made was to assume that the particular example of source code I chose to play with in the Tutorial was correctly produced. After some patient experimentation I was able to diagnose and resolve the problem. Thanks, Mel Bellefontaine ----- Original Message ----- From: David Boersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mel Bellefontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 7:13 AM Subject: Re: Question about Getting MIDI Output > Hello! > > > I am a new user of Lilypond as of last week. I love the idea because I > > have been looking for a way for a blind person to get music into print > > without sequencing and then having someone else edit the resulting > > score. Thanks so much for developing this tool. Don't ever forget > > those of us who want and need a text-based interface. > > Wow! I had not yet seen that argument for text-based input (as opposed to > GUI approaches). > > > Anyway, here is my question: > > > > I tried to get version 1.4.12 to output MIDI, but when I ran LY2DVI on > > the source file with a MIDI block in it (copied from the examples in the > > tutorial), I got a pile of error messages and no output. > > > > What do I do? > > I think the best thing to do is to send a copy of your input file as well > as the resulting 'pile of error messages' to this list. It is often also > helpful to give specifications about the operating system (and > distribution, if relevant) you run on your computer. > > Then a loosely organised team of developers and experienced users will > perform the autopsy on it (in which stage did the program die and & > whodunnit). > EITHER they will immediately come up with a diagnoses & solutions, OR they > will do suggestions for tests (check for incompatible packages in > installation) and improvements (point out grammar/syntax errors input) et > cetera. > > Cheers, > David Boersma > _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
