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Re: question regarding midi2ly


From: Graham Percival
Subject: Re: question regarding midi2ly
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:58:01 -0800


On 11-Feb-06, at 5:28 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote:

Graham Percival wrote:
You do not type the command line into the ly file, you type it on the
command line.  Have you used terminal?  If not, try reading this:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/14/terminal_one.html

Just on this Graham, I wonder if it would be worthwhile adding info to
the docs about using terminals on various platforms. The GNU/Linux and
BSD crowds mightn't need such a thing, but Windows and Mac users might
certainly benefit.

Yeah, I was wondering about this.

I'll definitely add a note to the docs that midi2ly is a separate program, to be run on the command line. I might add some links to tutorials on basic command-line use, since OSX and window users don't know how to do that kind of thing. (which, IMO, is a truly sad thing -- how can you interact meaningfully without a keyboard? :)

I'm not going to try to explain how to use a terminal directly, though. There are a million basic terminal usage documents on the web; there's no point in adding one more. (well, three more :)


Another option is to add midi2ly and xml2ly (but probably not the other ones) to the lilypond app menus. If any windows/osx user would like to sponsor that, I'm sure it would be useful to lots of new users. :)

Cheers,
- Graham





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