Re: issues with installing Lilypond

[tim]

On 19 Sep 2022 at 17:55, Cluanie Fraser wrote:

>
>     Hi Tim,
>     Thanks for responding. I´m really struggling as I´m quite out of depth 
> with this tech stuff.
>     This is what shows up when I download the Lilypond file from the website 
> and double
>     click to open it.

You've opened it in Notepad, which is for text files. What you have opened is 
definitely NOT a
text file.

>     I tried downloading Denemo and that kind of worked but doesn´t let me 
> edit the music in
>     the lilypond text file, I can only do it graphically which isn´t ideal.

I know next to nothing about Denomo, but I think it's a graphical music editor, 
which would
work with files in its own format, and would know nothing about Lilypond (*.ly) 
files.

I you have an existing *.ly file, open it in a text editor (or maybe better yet 
Frescobaldi, which I
gave you a URL for). And read the Learning manual, which I also gave you the 
URL for. The
*.ly file probably will make no sense to you until you read the Learning manual.

There is certainly a learning curve with Lilypond, but the results are worth it.

>     I appreciate any help; I feel like it shouldn´t be this difficult!
>
>     Cluanie
>
>
>
>     Sent from Mail for Windows
>
>     From: tim@risingdove.com
>     Sent: 09 September 2022 15:16
>     To: li.lypond-user@gnu.org; Cluanie Fraser
>     Subject: Re: issues with installing Lilypond
>
>     On 9 Sep 2022 at 11:21, Cluanie Fraser wrote:
>
>     >
>     > Hi,
>     > I´m struggling to download lilypond and wondering if it´s supported on 
> Windows 11?
>
>     It certainly runs on Win11, that's how I use it.
>
>     > When I download the Lilypond file it opens as a huge encrypted text 
> file on
>     Notepad.
>
>     It's basically a command line application. You prepare a file for it to 
> process and it spits
>     out a
>     PDF. For the basics of how to use it, download the Learning manual at
>     http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/learning/index.html
>
>     Also, check out Frescobaldi at frescobaldi.org. That's a multiplatform 
> front-end for Lily
>     that
>     makes writing, editing, and compiling your Lilypond input easier.
>
>     And continue to ask questions here.
>
>     --
>     Tim Slattery
>     tim@risingdove.com
>
>



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Tim Slattery
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