FAQ - GNU LilyPond Frequently Asked Questions
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General
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I'm stuck, HELP!
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   Please read the full online FAQs
(http://appel.lilypond.org/wiki?LilyPondFaqs).  Also, please look in
the searchable mailinglist archives:

   * help-gnu-music (http://www.mail-archive.com/help-gnu-music@gnu.org)

   * bug-gnu-music (http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnu-music@gnu.org)

   * gnu-music-discuss
     (http://www.mail-archive.com/gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org)

   If you are still at loss, send your questions to the *mailing list*,
and not to authors directly.

Installation
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Where is guile, libguileX, guile-config?
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   RedHat users need to install guile-1.4 and guile-devel-1.4, Debian
users need to get guile1.4, libguile9 and libguile9-dev.

   If you're building from source, you need guile 1.3.4 or newer.
Verify that the correct guile, guile-config, and libguile* in your PATH
and LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or `/etc/ld.so.conf').

I upgraded by applying a patch, and now my configure/build breaks.
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   Patches don't include automatically generated files, i.e.
`configure' and files generated by `configure'.  Regenerate them
yourself:

         autoconf
         configure

Is there an emacs mode?
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   Yes.  It is included with the source archive as `lilypond-mode.el'
and `lilypond-font-lock.el'.  If you have an RPM or .deb it is in
`/usr/share/doc/lilypond-X/'.  You have to install it yourself.

   Add this to your .emacs.el:
         (load-library "lilypond-mode.el")
         (setq auto-mode-alist
          (append '(("\\.ly$" . LilyPond-mode) auto-mode-alist)))

I downloaded the windows32 port, and it doesn't match the website!
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   The website is usually made from the latest snapshots.  Binary
releases, in particular the windows32 binaries, are only made every
once in a while.  They may lag several versions behind the latest
version.