Problem with Lilypond in Windows - need help

[Nguyen Quoc Toan]

Hi

I tried to use Lilypond several times with complete failure. This is my last attempt and really need you guys' help.

 

After installing Lilypond on Windows exactly as instructed in the web, I was able to see the Welcome screen with

 

GNU Lilypond 1.6.0.

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The problem started when I tried to test by typing

 

$  notepad foo.ly

 

and  after saving foo.ly (with the typing as you suggested) and  I run

 

ly2dvi -p foo

 

Here is what I got:

 

$ ly2div -p foo

Running LilyPond...

GNU LilyPond 1.6.8

warning: can't file the file: 'Quoc'

warning: can't file the file: 'Toan'

warning: can't file the file: '-I'

warning: can't file the file: '/home/Nguyen'

warning: can't file the file: 'Quoc'

warning: can't file the file: '-I'

 

and a series of similar warning like that

 

 

and it ends with

 

warning: no LilyPond output found for 'foo'

Running Latex...

Running dvips...

error: dvips: command exited with value 256

Traceback (most recent call back):

       File "usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 1088, in ?

             run_dvips (outbase, extra_init)

       File "usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 819, in run_dvips

          quiet_system (cmd, 'dvips' )  

       File "usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 504, in quiet_system

         return system (cmd, ignore_error, quiet=1)

       File "usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 256, in system error (msg)

       File "usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 152, in error

            sys.exit (2)

SystemExist:2

 

Nguyen Quoc address@hidden  ~

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Note:

Nguyen Quoc Toan is my full name.

I am using Windows XP Professional. The computer is running just fine.

 

 

Thanks a lot.

 

 

Toan