Re: How to start Lilypond

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 managin

Re: Off-Topic: Orchestration Aid

Google found Mehmet Okonsar wrote: Does anyone in the list knows some helper software for instrumentation topics, instruments ranges, fingerboard positions on strings etc.. Please forgive the off-topic intrusion and reply to me personally if y

Re: Absolute Beginners

Manuel wrote: Bonnie, only a brief message for the moment to ask you if you would consider adapting the Absolute Beginners Guide for Windows users? I'll try to get the process started, at least, using the wiki. I may not have time to do much until next week. Cheers! Bonnie

Re: Absolute Beginners

Manuel wrote: John Mandreau: My offer to integrate your work into the official tutorial was premature, as it is not clear now how to integrate it (or add it) into the official docs, that's why I second Joe and Graham's suggestion: the ideal current hosting of your work is certainly a wiki, for

Re: Very Beginner's Guide

Manuel wrote: Here is the whole thing again, including Jay's suggestions and other corrections Manuel LilyPond's Beginners Guide for the Very Beginner Just a quibble, but in English we'd be more likely to say "Complete Beginner" or maybe "Absolute Beginner" or even "Complete and

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: All the import stuff is coming back to me, I only typed exactly what you typed, except I have to type "python" in front of it because my convert-ly file has no file extension on the file name. So if I just type convert-ly Windows does not know its a python file so

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

Just as I thought - you are trying too hard! I'm not a programmer either. What on earth is all that "import" stuff? If you have the music in a desktop folder and cd to that folder you won't have to bother with any of that. Just type convert-ly and the file name. Cheers! Bonnie Rick Hansen

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

Hi Rick, Actually the file is convert-ly.py - it's a python script. I use abc2ly, another python script. Try just "cd C:\Program > Files\LilyPond" or cd into whatever folder the music file is in and try the command there. After some initial struggles, I found that both work with abc2ly. You

Re: After install

richik neogi wrote: Ok i've got the scale pdf file but I need the program. how do I get it? Give us a sequence of events, please, Richik. If I understood your previous messages, you got so frustrated trying to create and save the test Lilypond file that you deleted the lilypad icon and tried

Re: After install

I'm not sure I'm the right person to help you. I'll try, but I'm no Windows techie, just a fellow user. How did you uninstall? Did you go to Control Panel and select "Add or Remove Programs"? If you do it that way I don't think you'll have to do any additional deleting. richik neogi wrote:

Re: After install

Great! One suggestion: when you are really working in Lilypond you wouldn't want a Lilypond file just sitting on your desktop outside of a folder. I suggest you make a new folder called say for example "musicfiles". (Notice the folder name has no spaces or special characthers). Put that fold

Re: After install

Hi Richik, I gather you are a fellow Windows user. Are you using Notepad and having trouble saving the sample file as test.ly? Select "save as" instead of just "save". Change "Save as type" to "All Files". That should make notepad obey you when you tell it to save the file as test.ly. The fil

Re: Problems with the server?

I have indeed noticed duplicate posts, especially over the last week or two. It isn't usually as many as 5 or 6 dozen messages at a time, but it feels like it, especially when some random number of them turn out to be messages I already read. Laura Conrad wrote: "Cameron" == Cameron Horsburg