Starting up Lilypond

[Sacha Standen]

Hello

 

I have just downloaded Lilypond onto Windows ME, but don't have the faintest idea where to go from here! All the instructions seem to be in technical language that I can't follow. I've saved the text file, which opens a PDF window with an extract of music in, which I presume means the installation has worked, but I can't find any icon to load the Lilypond programme.

 

In the Tutorial section 2.2 it tells me to open a terminal window (what's that?) and start a text editor (?) e.g. open an xterm(??) and execute Joe(???). I'm getting confused here. Please excuse my technical ignorance. Perhaps I should be using Finale!

 

Regards

 

Sacha