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Help with Lilypond on Windows
From: |
J L |
Subject: |
Help with Lilypond on Windows |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:45:37 +1200 |
Hi,
Recently I found out about Lilypond. On the homepage there are many good
reports from users of Lilypond. Curious, and wanting a music
layout/typesetting/etc. program that I wouldn't have to spend in the
hundreds or thousands to obtain, I downloaded a copy. Note: I am running a
Windows XP computer, not Linux.
For one thing, the current installation process for Lilypond is clumsy and
troublesome. Can't someone make a proper installer for it?
Is there a possibility that some changes be made to the interface of
Lilypond? Although I've read how normal programming languages (i.e. C, C++)
are not flexible enough, and don't allow users to customize how they want
the output to be, is it possible to have bits of the program that allow it
to load different settings? If this is possible, then hopefully the Cygwin
environment will be dumped in favour of a totally or nearly standalone
Windows program. Also, are there any people out there who are annoyed about
how console windows always terminate when they are finished? This means that
unless it writes all its display to a file, the user can't tell what
problems might have been encountered. This is the first problem I have
running Lilypond, as well as the fact that it doesn't seem to be able to
produce any output (hence the complaint about the Cygwin environment). The
scripts that are supposed to run Lilypond by default don't work at all, and
a bit more luck is gained by directly calling Lilypond-bin.exe. Still,
although the display lasts longer, showing stuff other than the Cygwin
startup stuff, it terminates without any output. I've tried many different
command-line operations to no avail.
Lord Sneezalot
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