On Tue, 2022-09-20 at 09:26 -0400, t...@risingdove.com wrote: > On 19 Sep 2022 at 17:55, Cluanie Fraser wrote: > > > > > Hi Tim, > > Thanks for responding. I´m really struggling as I´m quite out > > of depth with this tech stuff. > > This is what shows up when I download the Lilypond file from > > the website and double > > click to open it. > > You've opened it in Notepad, which is for text files. What you have > opened is definitely NOT a > text file. > > > I tried downloading Denemo and that kind of worked but doesn´t > > let me edit the music in > > the lilypond text file, I can only do it graphically which > > isn´t ideal. > > I know next to nothing about Denomo, but I think it's a graphical > music editor, which would > work with files in its own format, and would know nothing about > Lilypond (*.ly) files.
just to set things straight - Denemo certainly does know about LilyPond files, it can write them and it can import them sometimes and can read chunks of music from LilyPond files via the clipboard. And you can insert LilyPond syntax at places in a Denemo score... Richard Shann
