Re: Point-and-click on Frescobaldi?

[Father Gordon Gilbert]

Hi guys,

For whatever reason, Fresco was not showing the full path to LilyPond.
 Never had this problem before, but when I put it in there, all
worked!

Thanks!

Gordon+

On 15/03/2012, James <address@hidden> wrote:
> Father Gilbert
>
> On 14 March 2012 23:35, Father Gordon Gilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Thanks, Wilbert,
>>
>> I had figured it was something like that, but I am too far from geeky
>> to be able to implement something that complicated.  I certainly do
>> make use of it, though!
>>
>> I have another problem now, however.
>>
>> When I upgraded Lily to the latest (2.15.33) and began to use Fresco
>> again to work on a new file, the whole thing seems broken!  Not sure
>> what I did, but in the compliation panel, all I get is the following:
>>
>> Starting lilypond-windows.exe. [file.ly]...
>> Could not start lilypond-windows.exe.
>> Please check path and permissions.
>>
>> I didn't *actively* do anything to the path or permissions, and I even
>> tried uninstalling and reinstalling both Frescobaldi and LilyPond,
>> with no improvement.
>>
>> Where to I look to find the problem, and how can I fix it?  Holy Week
>> is coming up, and I have some things I need to do!  Help!
>>
>> Thanks for a fantastic program.
>>
>
> I have realised that *if* you do not have LilyPond in your 'path' (see
> my last email to you) and you need to add it, the instructions will be
> slightly different depending if you are running Windows XP or Windows
> 7 - as things like file names and where settings are have changed.
>
> What I would do because I forgot we had added this to our instructions
> on teh website is to look here
>
> http://lilypond.org/windows.html
>
> See 'Running on the command line' section. This tells you how to check
> and configure.
>
> I do not know your technical ability (so sorry if I am patronizing you
> - many of us on these lists take it for granted users know how to
> configure these settings in Windows) to understand how to set a PATH
> etc. and as I know you have a very limited internet connection so are
> not permanently online, can you let me know if my last response is
> helpful and if not which version of Windows you are using and I can
> give you more detailed instructions in 'one go'
>
>
> --
> --
>
> James
>


-- 
Fr. Gordon Gilbert
Penetanguishene, ON