Re: the difficulties of a beginner.....

[Markus Schneider]

Iwan,

you also have to put in some music. The dots in your example are to be
filled with musical content, like this:

%% Snippet Begin
\header {
  title = "Miniature"
  composer = "Igor Stravinsky"
}

{ c'' d'' e'' f'' }
%% Snippet End

HTH
Markus

"Iwan Roth" <address@hidden> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:address@hidden
> Hi, I am experimenting with Lilypond since about a week. I did use Finale
for 15
> years and Sibelius for about 7 years. During all this years I was not
satisfied
> with the visual output of the software. lilypond seams to be first
computerized
> music which can compete with the old way of doing things.
> While I am learning I did copy and paste a few samples from your manual
and some
> of them work but other do not. Here one not working sample:
>
> \header {
>   title = "Miniature"
>   composer = "Igor Stravinsky"
> }
>
> { ... }
> I did try to find out, but without any success
>
> Iwan