2 article(LilyPond Windows NT 4.0 Distribution)(nemail(Jeffrey B. Reed)(daboys@bga.com))(label(contents))
3 sect(Windows NT Distribution)
5 subsect(Introduction) label(introduction)
7 This web page is dedicated to the distrubution of LilyPond for Windows
8 NT 4.0. This package is covered under the GNU General Public License
9 and all of the source and documentation are available on the official
11 Homepage)(http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html).
13 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. This program can print
14 beautiful sheet music from a music definition file. It can also play
15 mechanical performances to a MIDI file. Features include multiple
16 staffs, meters, clefs, keys, lyrics, versatile input language,
17 cadenzas, beams, slurs, triplets, formatting scores, part
18 extraction. It includes a nice font of musical symbols.
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24 subsect(NEWS) label(news)
26 Version 1.0.3 is available
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32 subsect(Required packages) label(packages)
34 LilyPond uses the code(TeX) package as its rendering engine. code(TeX)
35 represents the state-of-the-art in computer typesetting. It is used to
36 generate documentation, article, and book quality output. It is an
37 assume tool to have in your toolbox.
39 LilyPond uses a code(Python) script named code(ly2dvi) to render a
40 professional quality music score. code(Python) is an interpreted,
41 interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often
42 compared to code(Tcl), code(Perl), code(Scheme) or code(Java).
45 it()url(code(MiKTeX))(http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/)
46 it()url(code(Python))(http://www.python.org)
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53 subsect(Download) label(download)
56 it()lurl(lilypond-1.0.3.zip)
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63 subsect(Installation) label(installation)
66 it()link(Download)(download) the distribution.
68 it()Set your path variable for lilypond and TeX
71 In a batch file you can add the following entry: nl()
72 bf(set path=%path%em(LilyPond-dir)\bin;em(MiKTeX-dir)\miktex\bin)
73 dit(Windows Environment)
74 In the Windows environment you can select
75 properties menu of the My Computer icon. Click on
76 the environment tag and add the following to the user
77 variables path entry. nl()
78 bf(em(LilyPond-dir)\bin;em(MiKTeX-dir)\miktex\bin)
80 it() The first installation of LilyPond also requires these
83 dit(LaTeX geometry package)
85 it()url(download)(ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry.zip) the zip file to code(\Temp).
86 it()Extract the zip file into the LaTeX package area of
87 code(MiKTeX). This will be bf(em(MiKTeX-dir)\tex\latex)
88 it()From a Command Prompt change directory into geometry
89 directory that was just extracted.
90 it()In the geometry directory type bf(latex geometry.ins)
92 dit(Miscellaneous fonts)
94 it()In your favorite editor create a file named
95 code(cmbx14.mf). Add the following lines: nl()
96 bf(design_size=14.4; ) nl()
98 it()From a Command Prompt copy cmbx14.mf to the public font
100 bf(copy cmbx14.mf em(MiKTeX-dir)\fonts\source\public\cm\base)
103 it()See the link(Running)(running) instructions below
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110 subsect(Running LilyPond) label(running)
111 link(Back to top)(contents)
114 subsect(LilyPond resources) label(resources)
117 it()url(LilyPond Homepage)
118 (http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html)
119 it()url(LilyPond Ftp Site)(ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/)
120 it()url(gnu-music-discuss mail archive)
121 (http://jab.org/mail/gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org/)
122 it()Please feel free to mail us at url(gnu-music-discuss)
123 (mailto:gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org)
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