Siena wrote > Hi all - I just downloaded LilyPond, ran the test which worked fine, and > now > I'm trying to follow the tutorial, and ran into a problem right off at the > command line section. When I open LilyPond, a command prompt box opens, > which is I assume where I'm supposed to type the command "lilypond > test.ly" > to compile. > > Here's the problem: I can't type in the command prompt box. No matter > what > I do, nothing shows up when I type. Am I making a really dumb mistake, or > has something gone wrong with installation? I'm on Windows 7, if that > helps, and searching the archives of this list makes me think I should > maybe > have something called cygwin installed, and I don't seem to, so maybe > that's > the problem, but those messages were also from a long time ago. > > Any ideas would be very appreciated... > > Siena > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list
> lilypond-user@ > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Hi Siena, Welcome to the LilyPond community! Hmm...sorry you're having a problem with Windows 7 and LP. You don't "need" to type into that CMD window at all, you can use LilyPad (the window/example file that loads on startup). Do you see that? You can open a non-LilyPond Windows7 CMD [start menu --> cmd] window and use LilyPond commands there if you'd like; did you add or change anything in Environment Variables yet? We'll make sure you get up and running soon, stick with it! :) Ben ----- composer | sound designer LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/beginner-problem-tp154828p154829.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
