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LilyPond Windows NT 4.0/95 Distribution

This page documents the NT port of LilyPond. It reflects the latest version of lilypond that was ported.

Introduction

This page is dedicated to the distribution of precompiled and preformatted LilyPond binaries for Windows NT 4.0 . This package is covered under the GNU General Public License and all of the source is available on the official LilyPond Homepage. A full set of documentation in various formats is also available.

LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.

News


BUG FIXES
  • The Windows NT 4.0/95 precompiled preformatted release 1.3.42 is available.

NOTES
  • We have had preliminary reports that the Windows 95 installation works on Windows 98. Many thanks to Christian Mondrup.
  • Please use the Add/Remove program control panel entry to unistall your current version of Lilypond before you attempt to install this one.
  • If you are upgrading from a previous version of lilypond you will most likely need to flush your font cache. I generally just toss D:\localtexmf\fonts\tfm\public\ehrhardt and D:\localtexmf\fonts\pk\ljfour\public\ehrhardt in the Recyle Bin. Your local font directory may be different, please refer to your local installation of TeX.
  • The FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS file system problems have been corrected. I have tested various installations that are known to be operational.

The installer was created with CreateInstall. This is a shareware application that has capabilities close to the high dollar installers InstallShield, Install Vise, and WiseInstaller. CreateInstall does cost $38 to register which is probably going to be frowned upon, but I was unable to find a freeware install builder that was suitable. The self extracting distribution currently:

  • Installs the lilypond distribution on any valid file system.
  • Optionally creates a Lilypond shortcut group on your start menu with the following shortcuts.
    • lilyshell
    • uninstall
  • Allows unistall through the Add/Remove Program interface on the control panel.
  • The lilyshell uses the /E and /K switches to extend the environment size and initialize the shell environment.
  • It has the look and feel of a real Windows installer

The lilyshell shortcut initializes the environment so you can generate music from a MSDOS prompt with commands like:

  • ly2dvi
  • convert-mudela
  • mudela-book
  • lilypond
  • midi2ly

This release has been tested on Windows NT 4.0sp3 and Windows 95 and found to be operational. If you have any troubles and or comments please do not hesitate to drop me a line Jeffrey B. Reed.

Bugs

  • Using any text that contains '{}' for the value of the any valid mudela header construct will cause ly2dvi to fail. A work around for the latexheaders construct is to create a TeX file and set latexheaders to "\input foo.tex".

Required Packages

LilyPond uses the TeX package as its rendering engine. TeX represents the state-of-the-art in computer typesetting. It is used to generate documentation, article, and book quality output. It is an assume tool to have in your toolbox.

LilyPond uses a Python script named ly2dvi to render a professional quality music score. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.

Gsview is used to display and print the music scores created by LilyPond.

  • MiKTeX. Versions 1.10b, 1.11, and 1.20b are known to work.
  • Python. Version 1.5.1 and possibly 1.5 work.
  • gsview. Version 5.10 is known to work.

Download

Installation

  • Download the distribution. See Download.
  • run downloaded executable.
  • The first installation of LilyPond also requires these additional steps:

    LaTeX geometry package
    • download the zip file to \Temp.
    • Extract the zip file into the LaTeX package area of MiKTeX. This will be MiKTeX-dir\tex\latex
    • From a Command Prompt change directory into geometry directory that was just extracted.
    • In the geometry directory type latex geometry.ins

    Miscellaneous fonts
    • In your favorite editor create a file named cmbx14.mf. Add the following lines: design_size=14.4; input b-cmbx;
    • From a Command Prompt copy cmbx14.mf to the public font area of MiKTeX: copy cmbx14.mf MiKTeX-dir\fonts\source\public\cm\base

    NOTE
    MiKTeX-1.11 localtexmf configurations should use localtexmf-dir in place of MiKTeX-dir.
    instructions below

Running LilyPond

  • Take a look at angels.ly
  • Save angels.ly to your local disk
  • Select the lilyshell shortcut from the Lilypond group
  • From a LilyPond Command Prompt run:
       % ly2dvi angels.ly
       % dvips angels.dvi
       % start angels.ps
      

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Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.

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