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Re: making the actual music
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Peter Wright |
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Re: making the actual music |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:26:05 +0900 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) |
On 18/12 03:35:48, henry wrote:
> i just downloaded this today, and tried fiddling with a few
> notes...i just can't figure out how to make the actual sheet music
> document.
Start with a Lilypond text file, eg. "bling.ly", then run (from a
command line) "lilypond bling.ly" - it should create (among other
things) a file "bling.pdf". View that in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Get the above working first, then everything should be clear. :-)
There are lots of different .ly files you can try "lilyponding" on
http://mutopiaproject.org/ , and there should also be a few examples
in the Lilypond distribution you've installed.
Or you can grab a copy of this, which I put together while teaching
myself Lilypond a few months ago:
http://flooble.net/~pete/deep-river.ly
> also, how do you get the view seen in the sample, the on
> one with the three windows (one with the code, one with the sheet
> music and one with some other stuff..=/ ) its on the top of the
> "crash course" page.
This one? http://lilypond.org/web/switch/howto
> is it a certain software? if it is, could someone tell me how/where
> to get it, and what the heck to do with it? lol
There's three separate GUI programs in that screenshot - one is a
terminal, one is Emacs (a text editor, being used to edit the file
les-nereides.ly), and the third is gv (a program that can view the
Postscript output from Lilypond).
(I normally convert the postscript straight into PDF and use a PDF
viewer (like, eg. Adobe Acrobat Reader) to look at it, not bothering
with the Postscript output)
Depending on how good your eyesight is :), you can see from the
terminal that the user has run
lilypond input/les-nereides.ly
...which generates some text messages, along with the postscript file
les-nereides.ps, then the user runs:
gv les-nereides.ps
...to run the "gv" program to view the generated postscript file.
You can also see just before running the "gv" program, there's a line:
Converting to `les-nereides.pdf'...
...which is what modern Lilyponds do by default. So the user could
also have run Acrobat Reader (or another PDF viewer) to view the PDF.
Hope that helps a bit,
Pete.
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