Thanks Jan, Rune and Nicolas for your help. My French accent problem is solved, and I'm giving up on guile ( I reloaded Mandrake 8.0 which came with guile 1.4 and lilypond still complained about not being able to find guile-config ) and will take Jan's suggestion of upgrading to mdk8.2 and trying th RPM.
Thanks also to Laura Conrad, whose web page full of wonderful music me convinced me to try Lilypond. And I'm delighted with what Lilypond can do and how little time it takes to input music. Greg _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user