Re: convert-ly

[Knute Snortum]

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 8:25 AM Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> At 09:31 31/05/2021 -0400, Tim Slattery wrote:
> >On 30 May 2021 at 17:50, JxStarks wrote:
> >>Hi Ralph,
> >>I read that documentation and tried it. I'm running Windows 10 Pro,
> >>10.0.19041 and I still get the same response: " 'convert-ly is not
> >>recognized...". Am I missing something obvious?
> >
> >I think so. The name of the file is convert-ly.py, ...
>
> Are you sure? In my Windows 10 installation of Lilypond 2.22.1, the
> only file called "convert-ly" (in C:\Program Files
> (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin) has no extension. Is this an error?
>
> >When you type a command, the OS will look for a file of that name
> >with any of several extensions that it knows about: *.exe, *.bat,
> >*.cmd, *.lnk that sort of thing. It doesn't know about the *.py
> >extension, so you have to type it in as part of the command.
>
> Don't you first have to correct the name of convert-ly to what it
> should have been: convert-ly.py? Or what did I do wrong at
> installation time to cause this?

I don't think you caused anything.  I think it's this way in the 2.22
installation.  I don't know if it's intentional or not.

Since your system doesn't recognize python as an executable, you'll
have to launch it from python.  Type "python --version" to see if
python is in your path.  If so, type "python path\to\convert-ly ..."
or create a script.