I doubt we'll dive that far into Microsoft and
Windows 7. I was asking for documentation tweak suggestions.
-- Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 10:30
AM
Subject: Re: Newbie problems
Phil,
The obvious thing
would (IMHO) seem to be to add right-click menu items for .ly files. "Edit"
goes to Lilypad (or Frescobaldi etc....), "Engrave" goes to Lilypond. All with
suitable arguments in the command lines. Unfortunately, since MS withdrew
support for this feature for normal users, I can't help in the registry
manipulation details. No doubt they're somewhere hidden in the MS application
developer kit documentation (which I don't have).
There's a possible
conflict here in that 3rd party editors such as Frescobaldi manipulate the
default program as I understand it. I have no idea what the implications are -
sorry.
Now I've discovered Frescobaldi it may not be such an issue. But
I'm still trying to get it to work (only tried for about a minute so far,
though).
Best regards,
Peter mailto:address@hidden www.ptoye.com
------------------------- Monday,
April 15, 2013, 10:06:34 AM, you wrote:
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If you
would be willing to make suggestions about what the changes should be,
we would try to incorporate them.
-- Phil Holmes -----
Original Message ----- From: Peter Toye To: Federico Bruni Cc: lilypond-user
Mailinglist Sent: Monday,
April 15, 2013 9:46 AM Subject: Re: Newbie
problems
I've realised that there's a silly problem here, which
isn't Lilypond's fault. One really needs two different defaults for
opening a .ly file: one to edit it (Lilypad, Frescobaldi etc.) and one
to engrave it (Lilypond). And Microsoft, curse them, in Windows 7 and
later removed the possibility for users to add menu items to the
right-click on an icon. I'm told that you can still do it with a
registry fix (dangerous), but that's not much consolation.
Maybe
the documentation could do with a bit of tweaking
here?
------------------------- Sunday, April 14, 2013,
1:38:44 PM, you wrote:
2013/4/14 Peter Toye <address@hidden> Just starting to
try out Lilypond, and finding a few problems in getting to work at
all.
The OS is Windows 7, if that makes any
difference.
which version of lilypond? 1)
Double-clicking on a .ly file gets into Wordpad, and doesn't compile the
file. To compile it I have to drag-and-drop the file onto the Lilypond
icon on the desktop. This doesn't seem to conform to the
documentation.
I think that you have to associate the .ly
extension with Lilypad. BTW, I recommend using Frescobaldi instead of
Lilypad: http://frescobaldi.org/download 2) Once it's
compiled there's no output, just a log file without errors (see
below).
# -*-compilation-*- Processing
`D:/Peter/Music/Lilypond/Warlock1.ly' Parsing... Interpreting
music...[8] Preprocessing graphical objects... Finding the ideal
number of pages... Fitting music on 1 page... Drawing
systems...
can you see a pdf file
here? D:/Peter/Music/Lilypond/Warlock1.pdf
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