Thankyou for helpful responses from Knute, Brian, David and Saul. This may all
be an issue with windows 11 on my new dell laptop.
I removed everything and reinstalled to c:\program files (x86)\lilypond-2.24.4
I associated .ly files with lilypond, and set the path to the lilypond
directory as above. SET in cmd didn't recognise this until I rebooted.
I ran convert-ly e .. from the folder with the lilypond scripts, but it
reported that convert-ly is not recognised ....
I repeated that after copying a convert-ly.px to the scripts file, but with the
same result.
I also tried compiling a script, but despite the path and the default
association, it just suggested a list of apps to open the .ly file 'just once',
and then looped without achieving anything.
I repeated the whole process, reinstalling to c:\program files rather then
(x86), but still no change.
HOWEVER
If I use Frescobaldi, convert works properly, though from 2.23.12 there is a
change to the plainchant engraver, and it reports errors when I compile, though
it says it has compiled successfully. No doubt I can sort these out. I thought
it hadn't produced any output, but it just took a couple of minutes!
So I can't really ask for any more advice, though I really don't want to use
Frescobaldi as I prefer to type straight into notepad.
If you have any more thoughts, I'll let you know how I get on..
Regards
Jonathan
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Sent: 19 January 2025 12:20
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Subject: 2.24.4 installation and convert.ly
I have installed this after hanging on to 2.18.2 for years.
When I run convert.ly I get the following..
File "C:\Users\jenny\Documents\Music\Lilypond\Isaac\Coralis C\Pentecost XVIII
Communion\convert-ly.py", line 82, in <module>
import convertrules
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'convertrules'
I set my environment to find everything in the bin directory:
Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program
Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Lilypond\lilypond-2.24.4\bin;
I'm hoping this is well known and trivial!!
Jonathan
