Hello, On 27 March 2012 17:38, Michael Ellis <michael.f.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been collaborating with some other members of my choral group who've > decided to learn LilyPond (more converts, hooray!) to help with transcribing > individual parts. For the OS X users, it was very easy to set up a folder > in Dropbox that included the latest LilyPond.app bundle so I don't have to > troubleshoot installation and version issues on their individual machines. > Works great so far. > > Now I'm getting inquiries from Windows users. Is it possible to do the > same thing for them, i.e. have a LilyPond Windows install self-contained in > a Dropbox folder that they can just run with no other installation effort? > I really want to avoid spending time figuring out why things aren't working > in Vista :-(
All my LilyPond files reside in a DropBox folder (if not the binary itself) - this means no matter what machine I am on (Linux/Mac/Windows) I can easily access all my files. It works well, although on a slow network connection it can, depending on the size of the .ly file and the resulting output - slow down the compilation, perhaps by a few seconds my scores rarely go more than 8 pages. Because you are creating a few temp files (.ps for instance) that then get deleted, Dropbox will still replicate the creation and then replciate the deletion. However when I am doing lots of changes you can 'pause' syncing very easily and then when you are all done and finished, just resume sync and dropbox updates the most current files. I cannot speak about Vista but Windows 7 works great. Installing LilyPond in a dropbox folder is no different to say installing it on the 'd' drive. What I am not sure of though is You *might* need to set your path (or at least check it is set properly) so that LilyPond can run http://lilypond.org/windows.html See 'running on the command line' half way down. Regards James _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
