It has benn said several times, but I understand your misunderstanding. You have probably used Cygwin to install lily. You have also saved test.ly in a directory c\:\myfiles, for example. Click on the cygwin icon : il will open the famous "terminal window". Make : cd c: cd myfiles lilypond test.ly It will end with : test.pdf created. Then close the terminal and fetch your test.pdf in your directory myfiles. Click on it, and that's it. To create your own lily files, just use test.ly : you can copy it with another name, and start to write some code into it, following the doc. Have fun ! Tanguy Léost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envoyé par : Pour : Sacha Standen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lilypond-user-bounces+jean-marc.legrand=total. cc : lilypond-user@gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: Starting up Lilypond 20/04/2005 12:58 Sacha Standen wrote: > Hello > > I have just downloaded Lilypond onto Windows ME, but don't have the > faintest idea where to go from here! All the instructions seem to be > in technical language that I can't follow. I've saved the text file, > which opens a PDF window with an extract of music in, which I presume > means the installation has worked, but I can't find any icon to > load the Lilypond programme. > > In the Tutorial section 2.2 it tells me to open a terminal window > (what's that?) and start a text editor (?) e.g. open an xterm(??) and > execute Joe(???). I'm getting confused here. Please excuse my > technical ignorance. Perhaps I should be using Finale! > > Regards > > Sacha > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Hello, maybe this link will be useful: http://olympus.het.brown.edu/doc/lilypond/html/Documentation/windows/out-www/installing.html Lilypond has no GUI, so maybe that's why you're so confused. It's quite easy to use, anyway... you have to type the score with a text editor, save it (e.g. test.ly) and then run lilypond on the file (lilypond test.ly) to get a nice sheet of music. As far as i know, if you use windows you have to use the 'cygwin' software to be able to run lilypond. Maybe you already installed it? -- Unix IS user friendly , it is just selective about who his friends are _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user