Re: Starting up

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Tomas Valusek <address@hidden>:

> Hello,
>
> I'm a Czech music teacher. I'm visually impaired, so creating scores 
> graphically is very tiring for my eyes. I just downloaded and 
> installed LilyPond 2.8.1 on WindowsXP Pro Czech edition. As a Czech 
> user, I'd like to use Czech accented characters within text elements 
> in LilyPond.
>
> 1. I have never used Unicode-capable text editor, all my plain-text 
> files are stored using cp1250 codepage. I'd like to use Notepad++ 
> (based on Scintilla engine) as an input file editor. Is there any 
> support for this editor? How to save an input file so that CZ 
> characters appear correctly in output?

The simple answer is that you need an editor that can save
files using UTF-8 encoding. You know more about Notepad++ than I do. 
There are a number of proposed editors listed somewhere in the on-line 
documentation.

> 2. Is there a way to output LilyPond score as a raster image with 
> preset dpi value (e.g. 300, 600 dpi), so that I could create short 
> music examples and insert them as images into Windows word processor?

See the section on Invoking LilyPond. I hope you are familiar to the
command prompt in Windows. Then it's easy to use whatever flags to 
LilyPond, such as
lilypond --png myfile.ly

  /Mats