> Sorry, I am new to Lilypond and I am afraid I am all questions. If you have a question, there are almost always at least ten other people who have same question, or will have them in the future. Don't feel ashamed for asking. You will help also the others, both since the answer will be in the mailing list archives and since it hopefully is possible to improve Lilypond to avoid the question in the future.
> I am trying to download the manual, but when doing so and trying to open with gzip >-d it says it is not the correct type. I am using Windows 2k and I have tried to >change the extension but it does not work. It's a problem with these gzipped Postscript files. In fact, GSview is certainly able to read the file you downloaded even though you may have to save the file to disk, then start GSview and finally open the file from within the program. The problem is that different web browsers (even different versions of the same browser) handle compressed files in different ways. I have seen browsers who: - Unzip the file but fail to associate it with the correct viewer even if GSview is installed as Postscript viewer. - Unzip the file but keep the suffix .gz when saving to disk (or maybe it was the other way around). - Start winzip, which in its turn is unable to start GSview when you click on the file. - ... you name it! I have actually seen these problems also in UNIX. As I mentioned above, GSview is able to uncompress the file on the fly if necessary. The problem is that you can't associate the suffix .gz with GSview if you want to be able to handle also other compressed files. > Is there a form to get a PDF version of the Manual with the tutorial included. There was a long discussion between .ps.gz and .pdf on the mailing list for the Werner Icking music archive some year ago and the final conclusion was to switch to PDF as the default format. I would recommend the same for our WWW pages. I know the disadvantage is that you have to build the .pfa fonts before being able to build the web site. /Mats _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
