Paul,
Thank you for the reassurance based on your experience.
Please bear with me and clarify some procedures.
I opened:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/learning/graphical-setup-under-windows
to read the process.
My current Frescobaldi is 3.3.0. So good there.
Then further down is the direction:
Click on the folder icon and navigate to the lilypond-x.y.z-mingw-x86_64 folder you previously created. Inside this folder, open ‘lilypond-x.y.z’, then ‘bin’, and finally select ‘lilypond’.
When was that done?
Your assistance is appreciated.
Mark
From: Paul Hodges [mailto:pwh@cassland.org]
Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2023 1:20 AM
To: Mark Stephen Mrotek <carsonmark@ca.rr.com>; 'Jean Abou Samra' <jean@abou-samra.fr>
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 2.22.2 and 2.24.2
Yes you can - they install by default into separate directories. I have installed in Windows the final version of every stable release from 2.6, and the current (and one other) development version so that I can compile and update any lilypond code I come across. Frescobaldi has them all linked in so the correct one is used automatically.
Paul
From: Mark Stephen Mrotek <carsonmark@ca.rr.com>
To: 'Jean Abou Samra' <jean@abou-samra.fr>
Cc: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: 09/09/2023 2:20
Subject: RE: 2.22.2 and 2.24.2
Jean,
Thank you.
My error in not being precise.
I am installing under Windows 10.
Mark
Can I keep an operational 2.22.2 while I attempt to download and install 2.24.2?
Depends on the installation method. With a package manager on Linux or macOS, usually no, but if you're just downloading the official binaries from lilypond.org, then yes, no problem at all.