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Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?
From: |
Trevor Daniels |
Subject: |
Re: How do you run/open Lilypond? |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:22:00 -0000 |
I agree with all you suggest, Carl. How do we
make this change?
Trevor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl D. Sorensen" <address@hidden>
To: "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <address@hidden>; "Jonathan Kulp"
<address@hidden>
Cc: "Jeb" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?
On 3/24/09 9:13 AM, "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <address@hidden>
wrote:
Op dinsdag 24-03-2009 om 09:55 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef
Jonathan
Kulp:
Check the third question/answer on this page:
http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=FAQ
Why do we have to send a mail to point to a faq on some off-site
wiki?
There is a Help link on lilypond.org, which tells the user exactly
how to
fix things. So we don't need to have the mail point to the off-site
wiki.
It could point to
<http://lilypond.org/web/help/>
Can't we make lilypond pop-up a web page when invoked without
arguments
or something like that?
On my fresh installation of LilyPond 2.12 in Win XP, when I
double-click on
the LilyPond icon on my desktop, it opens up to the source file
Welcome_to_LilyPond.ly which mentions the non-GUI nature of
LilyPond.
Granted, you have to read it carefully, because it's in the source,
but...
Similarly, when I use the program menu to run LilyPond, it opens up
Welcome_to_LilyPond.ly.
So I think we're already getting a pop up window, just not a pop-up
html
window.
Perhaps we need to put more explicit links in Welcome_to_LilyPond.ly
Currently it reads:
%{
Welcome to LilyPond
===================
Congratulations, LilyPond has been installed successfully.
Now to take it for the first test run.
1. Save this LilyPond file on your desktop with the name
"test.ly".
2. Pick it up from the desktop with your mouse pointer, drag and
drop
it onto the LilyPond icon.
3. LilyPond automatically produces a PDF file from the musical
scale
below.
4. To print or view the result, click on the newly produced file
called
test.PDF
That's it.
LilyPond's interface is text-based. Please read the documentation.
For more information, visit http://lilypond.org .
%}
\version "2.12.0" % necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond
versions.
\header{
title = "A scale in LilyPond"
}
\relative c' {
c d e f g a b c
}
%%%%%%%%%% END OF ORIGINAL FILE
What if we changed it to:
%{
Welcome to LilyPond
===================
Congratulations, LilyPond has been installed successfully.
Now to take it for the first test run.
1. Save this LilyPond file on your desktop with the name
"test.ly".
2. Pick it up from the desktop with your mouse pointer, drag and
drop
it onto the LilyPond icon.
3. LilyPond automatically produces a PDF file from the musical
scale
below.
4. To print or view the result, click on the newly produced file
called
test.PDF
5. If you see a piece of music with a scale, LilyPond is
performing
properly.
Next, you'll want to get started on your own scores. To do this,
you'll
need to learn about using LilyPond.
LilyPond's interface is text-based, rather than graphical. Please
visit
the help page at http://lilypond.org/web/help. This will point
you to
a quick tutorial and extensive documentation.
Good luck with LilyPond!
%}
\version "2.12.0" % necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond
versions.
\header{
title = "A scale in LilyPond"
subtitle = "For more information on using LilyPond, please see
http://lilypond.org/web/help/"
}
\relative c' {
c d e f g a b c
}
%%%%%%% END OF REVISED FILE
Maybe we could also put a comment on the download page for Windows.
For
FreeBSD, there is a comment that talks about what to do when you
download
the file. Perhaps it could say something like "After installing,
please
visit http://lilypond.org/web/help"
Perhaps we could also put a message in the main installing box for
Windows.
Right now it's blank. It could read: "Please note that LilyPond is
a
command-line application, not a GUI application. After
installation, please
visit http://lilypond.org/web/help"
I can imagine that not everyone who hits this goes through the
trouble
of mailing lilypond-user...?
On the positive side, since the Help page was added to the website,
we've
had *far* fewer comments saying "Where's the GUI?" So either it's
helped,
or we've had lots fewer Windows downloads.
Carl
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- How do you run/open Lilypond?, Jeb, 2009/03/24
- Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?, Jonathan Kulp, 2009/03/24
- Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2009/03/24
- Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?, Carl D. Sorensen, 2009/03/24
- Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?,
Trevor Daniels <=
- Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?, Carl D. Sorensen, 2009/03/24
- Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2009/03/24
- Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?, Carl D. Sorensen, 2009/03/24
- Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?, Carl D. Sorensen, 2009/03/24