Francisco Vila wrote:
El lun, 19 de mar de 2007, a las 01:33:45 +0100, Francisco Vila dijo:
Really you can simply open notepad and save the document as
whatever.ly and it will keep its given filename extension, so it
should work as a lilypond file.
Not true unless you have experience managing Notepad. When you save the
Lilypond test file in Notepad, you must not only type the filename
"test.ly" but also change the "Save as type" to "All Files". Otherwise
the result will indeed be "test.ly.txt".
Similarly, when you go to open an existing Lilypond file to edit in
Notepad, you must take care to change the "Files of type" to "All
Files." Otherwise you won't see the complete file list, and Notepad
won't be able to find the Lilypond file.
In Notepad, you have to reset the file type to "All Files" each time you
open a new Lilypond file, even if you saved another Lilypond file
immediately before in the same working session. And Notepad lets you
have only one file open at a time, so you can't easily compare files or
copy from file to file.
Because of this lack of flexibility, I don't think most Windows Lilypond
users would choose Notepad, even though it can be made to work. There
are lots of other editors for Windows, most of them free downloads.
Windows newbies who don't have an established preference should check out
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors>
It would be nice if LilyPond, besides its context menu entry "generate
PDF..." would also add a "new->lilypond text file" entry in the
right-click mouse menu. This would simplify things a lot, I think.
To me it seems simpler just to open the file in the text editor of my
choice. There's lots of typing to be done before the file will be ready
to run through Lilypond. And I want to be free to try different editors
and decide for myself which one I like best. Based on previous
discussions in this list, there is no one clear choice that suits everybody.
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