Richard-
If you know anything about abc files? It's a system mostly for trad
(read folk) music usually single line though it is more flexible than
that. Anyway the 'programing' is similar, rather simple and then you
just need a program to translate it to notation.
Again similar to the convert.ly part of lily except lily doesn't read
abc files.
Tabledit does and it's something else that you could be familar with as
it is both a notation/guitar program and does some of what lily does too.
What age/levels are you working with?
Jay
Richard Glascodine wrote:
Wow! Thanks for the quick response. Done what you said and it works! I
like the example files! It really does look classy. I think I agree
with you, re: the teaching. However it could be a link between
programming and music - I dont know, as I know next to nothing about
the former,
Anyways
Thankyou for your time
Rich.
From: "Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing on Windows XP
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:30:47 -0700
Richard-
I teach also and I'm not sure if this program will do the trick at
this stage in it's development. It's very time consuming and
constantly changing.
That said.
Run the set up exe and that's when you should be able to place the
icon and other info where you need it.
Ex. For convenience in my mind I made a lily folder everything is in
there.
There will be a welcome file and it will tell you what to do next.
From there it's a matter of really using the documentation- cutting
pasting and constantly correcting.
In all honesty I have found that working with lily... in linux is
about 8x easier than in XP even though running linux is probably 7x
harder to run in a usual way.
If you've had experience with Sibelius/Finale/Sunhawk/Noteworthy/ and
some programing then lily will be just another step into the world of
control but it's a really tall step.
Jay
Richard Glascodine wrote:
Sorry about that, I pressed Enter by accident!
Hi,
Yeah, I'm really keen to try out lilypond. I too agree with you that
Sibelius Scores et al just dont look right- they look really amatuer
dont they. Anyway I digress....
I followed your instructions about downloading lilypond for WIndows
XP through setup.exe. My question is what happens after it has
downloaded, does an icon appear on my start menu or do I have to
type a command line or something? (Which I'm not sure how to do).
Some things which may help: I chose a differerent download site
because the one on the top took ages (about 0.6kbs) - I have
boadband - thats a shit rate!
Also, the installer kind of 'froze' at 99% (annoying) but when I
clicked cancel a window popped up and said installation complete, so
I carried on anyway.
If you could clarify a few points for me that would be great as I
really want to see what the results are like.
I'm starting a music teaching course in September (for schools) and
I'm just sussing out open source software, to see if they are
suitable in my music teaching. (I'm also sussing out linux as well
but its confusing!)
Many thanks
Richard Glascodine
(wannabe lilypond user)
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