Re: Lilypond

[David Bobroff]

At 07:11 PM 4/3/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Jan and Han-Wen,
>
>    Thank you for making your program available. Unfortunately, I'm stuck.
I have a PC with windows XP. I have downloaded the Bertalan Fodor-Martin
Jozsec version and all seemed well. But when I click the icon or run the
program, all I get is a DOS type window with :
>
>William Bewley @ COMPUTER ~
>$
>I have tried entering lilypond, run and so on but whatever I enter it
replies bash: (my entry):command not found
>Advice please.
>
>        Yours sincerely,
>
>        Bill Bewley

Not sure what steps you've taken.  LilyPond does not exist as a stand-alone
program for Windows.  It runs under cygwin, a Linux like environment for
Windows.  It is necessary to download/install cygwin and include the
LilyPond package.  Directions for that can be found here:

http://lilypond.org/web/download/windows.html


Now, assuming you've installed according to the above you must understand
that LilyPond is not an interactive point-and-click program.  Simply
starting LilyPond won't do very much.  LilyPond is a batch program which is
run on an input file.  Go here to learn about the input syntax:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Tutorial.html

Hope this is helpful.

-David