Installation of Lilypond on Cygwin: Download setup.exe. (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe) Run it. Click Next Select Install from Internet. Click next. Use the Default setting for Root directory (c:\cygwin), Install for (All users), Default Text File Type (Unix). Click Next. Local Package Directory - Leave it default. Click Next. Select Your Internet Connection. Use the default (Direct Connection). Click Next. Select a download site near your location. Click Next. Make sure that "Curr" is selected in the top row of radio buttons. Scroll package list to Publishing. Click on the word "Publishing". Now you get Publishing expanded. Note the package names on the right side of the list. Scroll to "lilypond: A program for printing sheet music". In the column "New" click on the word "Skip", while it shows "Install" (Now the Current column should show the version number "2.0.1-1".) (If LilyPond 2.0.1 has already been installed, it shows Keep and the version number.) Click Next. Wait, until lilypond and the appropriate tools (e.g. tetex) are installed. At the end leave the two checkboxes checked to have shortcuts on the desktop and in Start menu.
Running lilypond: 1. Click on a ".ly" file. If you have Acrobat installed, it will open the compiled score. If there was some problem Acrobat will start with an error message. You can find the cause of the error in the ".log" file. For example, if you try to compile "test.ly", a "test.log" will be created, in which you can find the cause of the errors. This log file can be viewed with notepad. 2. Run cygwin with the Shortcut icon in Start menu or Desktop. Now you get a window with a command prompt. Type "lilypond -h" (without the quotes. You should get some information about the command line switches of lilypond. You can compile your files the command "lilypond myFile.ly". Using this command a pdf file will also be generated. In cygwin you can go back to your last commands with the up arrow. You can navigate in folders with a special command, chdir or cd (for short). Use /cygdrive/c for c: and /cygdrive/d for d:, for example to compile d:\doc\myFile.ly type 'cd /cygdrive/d/doc' - press Enter, type 'lilypond myFile.ly' - press Enter, and after some compiling you can find myFile.pdf (and others) in 'd:\doc'. If you don't want to type long folder names and file names, use the TAB key, which will automatically type the name if it can guess or show you a list of possible names. I hope this helps with some issues. Bert _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
