Re: convert-ly

[Brian Barker]

At 09:17 31/05/2021 -0700, Knute Snortum wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 8:25 AM Brian Barker wrote:
> >  At 09:31 31/05/2021 -0400, Tim Slattery wrote:
> > > On 30 May 2021 at 17:50, JxStarks wrote:
> > > > Hi Ralph,
> > > > I read that documentation and tried it. I'm running Windows 10 
> > > > Pro, 10.0.19041 and I still get the same response: " 'convert-ly 
> > > > is not recognized...". Am I missing something obvious?
> > >
> > > I think so. The name of the file is convert-ly.py, ...
> >
> > Are you sure? In my Windows 10 installation of Lilypond 2.22.1, the 
> > only file called "convert-ly" (in C:\Program Files 
> > (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin) has no extension. Is this an error?
> >
> > > When you type a command, the OS will look for a file of that name 
> > > with any of several extensions that it knows about: *.exe, *.bat, 
> > > *.cmd, *.lnk that sort of thing. It doesn't know about the *.py
> > > extension, so you have to type it in as part of the command.
> >
> > Don't you first have to correct the name of convert-ly to what it 
> > should have been: convert-ly.py? Or what did I do wrong at 
> > installation time to cause this?
>
> I don't think you caused anything.  I think it's this way in the 
> 2.22 installation.  I don't know if it's intentional or not.
>
> Since your system doesn't recognize python as an executable, you'll 
> have to launch it from python.  Type "python --version" to see if 
> python is in your path.  If so, type "python path\to\convert-ly ..."
> or create a script.

So (to answer the original enquirer's question) do we agree that the 
2.22 documentation about the use of convert-ly under Windows at
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/usage/invoking-convert_002dly 
is wrong?

Brian Barker