That's weird, I just opened wtk-1-fugue2.ly (one of the examples from
the website) in Notepad and it seems like the newline character is
getting printed as an empty rectangle(???). The files I made in
emacs display fine though.
I use XEmacs on Windows XP, so I can get all the fun syntax
highlighting colors. For Windows I would recommend it over Gnu
Emacs, just because it allows you to take advantage of WinXP's
ClearType font smoothing ( _much_ easier on the eyes ). You can
get it for free at http://www.xemacs.org
Other things like jedit might be better or easier, I just haven't tried them.
-david.