2 article(LilyPond Windows NT 4.0 Distribution)(nemail(Jeffrey B. Reed)(daboys@bga.com))(label(contents))
3 sect(Windows NT Binary Distribution)
5 subsect(Introduction) label(introduction)
7 This page is dedicated to the distribution of precompiled and
8 preformatted LilyPond binaries for Windows NT 4.0 . This package is
9 covered under the GNU General Public License and all of the source is
10 available on the official
11 url(LilyPond Homepage)(http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html).
12 A full set of url(documentation)(http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/Documentation/tex/out-www/index.html) in various formats is also available.
14 includefile(../BLURB.in)
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20 subsect(NEWS) label(news)
21 This is what the version @TOPLEVEL_VERSION@ brings:
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31 subsect(Required packages) label(packages)
33 LilyPond uses the code(TeX) package as its rendering engine. code(TeX)
34 represents the state-of-the-art in computer typesetting. It is used to
35 generate documentation, article, and book quality output. It is an
36 assume tool to have in your toolbox.
38 LilyPond uses a code(Python) script named code(ly2dvi) to render a
39 professional quality music score. code(Python) is an interpreted,
40 interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often
41 compared to code(Tcl), code(Perl), code(Scheme) or code(Java).
44 it()url(code(MiKTeX))(http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/)
45 it()url(code(Python))(http://www.python.org)
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52 subsect(Download) label(download)
55 it()lurl(lilypond-@TOPLEVEL_VERSION@.bin.zip)
58 link(Back to top)(contents)
62 subsect(Installation) label(installation)
65 it()link(Download)(download) the distribution.
67 it()Set your path variable for lilypond and TeX
70 In a batch file you can add the following entries: nl()
71 bf(set LILYPONDPREFIX=em(LilyPond-dir)) nl()
72 bf(set path=%path%;%LILYPONDPREFIX%\bin;em(MiKTeX-dir)\miktex\bin) nl()
73 bf(set TEXINPUTS=%LILYPONDPREFIX%\share\lilypond\tex;;) nl()
74 bf(set MFINPUTS=%LILYPONDPREFIX%\share\lilypond\mf;;) nl()
75 COMMENT( dit(Windows Environment)
76 In the Windows environment you can select
77 properties menu of the My Computer icon. Click on
78 the environment tag and add the following to the user
79 variables path entry. nl()
80 bf(em(LilyPond-dir)\bin;em(MiKTeX-dir)\miktex\bin))
82 it() The first installation of LilyPond also requires these
85 dit(LaTeX geometry package)
87 it()url(download)(ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry.zip) the zip file to code(\Temp).
88 it()Extract the zip file into the LaTeX package area of
89 code(MiKTeX). This will be bf(em(MiKTeX-dir)\tex\latex)
90 it()From a Command Prompt change directory into geometry
91 directory that was just extracted.
92 it()In the geometry directory type bf(latex geometry.ins)
94 dit(Miscellaneous fonts)
96 it()In your favorite editor create a file named
97 code(cmbx14.mf). Add the following lines: nl()
98 bf(design_size=14.4; ) nl()
100 it()From a Command Prompt copy cmbx14.mf to the public font
102 bf(copy cmbx14.mf em(MiKTeX-dir)\fonts\source\public\cm\base)
105 MiKTeX-1.11 localtexmf configurations should use
106 bf(em(localtexmf-dir)) in place of bf(em(MiKTeX-dir)).
108 it()See the link(Running)(running) instructions below
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115 subsect(Running LilyPond) label(running)
118 it()Take a look at url(angels.ly)(angels.ly)
119 it()Save angels.ly to your local disk
120 it()From a Command Prompt run: nl()
121 bf(ly2dvi.py angels.ly) nl()
122 bf(dvips angels.dvi) nl()
123 bf(cmd /c angels.ps) nl()
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129 subsect(LilyPond resources) label(resources)
132 it()url(LilyPond Homepage)
133 (http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html)
134 it()url(LilyPond Ftp Site)(ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/)
135 it()url(gnu-music-discuss mail archive)
136 (http://jab.org/mail/gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org/)
137 it()Please feel free to mail us at url(gnu-music-discuss)
138 (mailto:gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org)
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