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 preformatted
8 LilyPond binaries for Windows NT 4.0 . This package is covered under the
9 GNU General Public License and all of the source and documentation are
10 available on the official
11 url(LilyPond Homepage)(http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html).
13 includefile(../BLURB.in)
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19 subsect(NEWS) label(news)
20 This is what the version @TOPLEVEL_VERSION@ brings:
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30 subsect(Required packages) label(packages)
32 LilyPond uses the code(TeX) package as its rendering engine. code(TeX)
33 represents the state-of-the-art in computer typesetting. It is used to
34 generate documentation, article, and book quality output. It is an
35 assume tool to have in your toolbox.
37 LilyPond uses a code(Python) script named code(ly2dvi) to render a
38 professional quality music score. code(Python) is an interpreted,
39 interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often
40 compared to code(Tcl), code(Perl), code(Scheme) or code(Java).
43 it()url(code(MiKTeX))(http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/)
44 it()url(code(Python))(http://www.python.org)
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51 subsect(Download) label(download)
54 it()lurl(lilypond-@TOPLEVEL_VERSION@.bin.zip)
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61 subsect(Installation) label(installation)
64 it()link(Download)(download) the distribution.
66 it()Set your path variable for lilypond and TeX
69 In a batch file you can add the following entries: nl()
70 bf(set LILYPONDPREFIX=em(LilyPond-dir)) nl()
71 bf(set path=%path%;%LILYPONDPREFIX%\bin;em(MiKTeX-dir)\miktex\bin) nl()
72 bf(set TEXINPUTS=%LILYPONDPREFIX%\texmf\tex\lilypond;;) nl()
73 bf(set MFINPUTS=%LILYPONDPREFIX%\texmf\mf\public\lilypond;;) nl()
74 COMMENT( dit(Windows Environment)
75 In the Windows environment you can select
76 properties menu of the My Computer icon. Click on
77 the environment tag and add the following to the user
78 variables path entry. nl()
79 bf(em(LilyPond-dir)\bin;em(MiKTeX-dir)\miktex\bin))
81 it() The first installation of LilyPond also requires these
84 dit(LaTeX geometry package)
86 it()url(download)(ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry.zip) the zip file to code(\Temp).
87 it()Extract the zip file into the LaTeX package area of
88 code(MiKTeX). This will be bf(em(MiKTeX-dir)\tex\latex)
89 it()From a Command Prompt change directory into geometry
90 directory that was just extracted.
91 it()In the geometry directory type bf(latex geometry.ins)
93 dit(Miscellaneous fonts)
95 it()In your favorite editor create a file named
96 code(cmbx14.mf). Add the following lines: nl()
97 bf(design_size=14.4; ) nl()
99 it()From a Command Prompt copy cmbx14.mf to the public font
101 bf(copy cmbx14.mf em(MiKTeX-dir)\fonts\source\public\cm\base)
104 MiKTeX-1.11 localtexmf configurations should use
105 bf(em(localtexmf-dir)) in place of bf(em(MiKTeX-dir)).
107 it()See the link(Running)(running) instructions below
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114 subsect(Running LilyPond) label(running)
117 it()Take a look at url(angels.ly)(angels.ly)
118 it()Save angles.ly to your local disk
119 it()From a Command Prompt run: nl()
120 bf(ly2dvi.py angles.ly) nl()
121 bf(dvips angles.dvi) nl()
122 bf(cmd /c angles.ps) nl()
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128 subsect(LilyPond resources) label(resources)
131 it()url(LilyPond Homepage)
132 (http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html)
133 it()url(LilyPond Ftp Site)(ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/)
134 it()url(gnu-music-discuss mail archive)
135 (http://jab.org/mail/gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org/)
136 it()Please feel free to mail us at url(gnu-music-discuss)
137 (mailto:gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org)
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