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 Windows
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           Note: LilyPond is a *text-based* music engraver; it is more
           similar to a programming language than a graphical score
           editing program.  Before downloading LilyPond, please read
           about our SeeText input.
 
 Packages
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 Download
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    • [lilypond/pictures/logo-windows]Windows: LilyPond 2.18.2-1
      (http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/mingw/lilypond-2.18.2-1.mingw.exe)
      For Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 8.
 
 Install
 .......
 
   1. Locate the downloaded file and double-click on it to start the
      installer.  Follow the instructions given to you by the installer;
      we recommend that you leave all the install options checked and use
      the default installation location.  Click the ‘Finish’ button when
      the installer has completed.  LilyPond is now installed.
 
 Uninstall
 .........
 
 To uninstall LilyPond either:
 
   1. Locate the LilyPond folder from the ‘Start’ menu and click on the
      ‘Uninstall’ icon.  Click the ‘Finish’ button when the uninstaller
      has completed.
 
   2. Or from within the Control Panel, locate and select LilyPond and
      then choose the option to uninstall/remove the software.  Click the
      ‘Finish’ button when the uninstaller has completed.
 
 Running on the command-line
 ---------------------------
 
           Note: If you are happy with the GUI instructions below, then
           please ignore these instructions.
 
 Windows on the command line
 ...........................
 
 The most convenient way to run LilyPond is by adding the folder which
 contains LilyPond executable files to the environmental variable “Path”.
 
   1. Open your “System” on the Control Panel, select Advanced tab and
      click Environmental Variables button.
 
   2. Select the Variable “Path” from Environmental variables list and
      click the Edit button.  You will be presented a window titled “Edit
      System Variable”; append to “Variable value” the name of the folder
      which contains LilyPond executable files like this:
 
           [PRE-SET PATHS];DIR\LilyPond\usr\bin
 
                Note: DIR will generally be ‘C:\Program Files’.
 
      and click “OK” button to close the window.
 
 Invoking individual executable files
 ....................................
 
 LilyPond executable files – such as lilypond, lilypond-book, convert-ly,
 and so on – can be run from the command-line by invoking them:
 
      lilypond test.ly
 
 Compiling a file
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           Note: These instructions assume that you are using the
           built-in LilyPad editor.  If you are using any of the programs
           described in See(lilypond-web)Easier editing, please
           consult the documentation for those programs if you have any
           problems compiling a file.
 
 Step 1. Create your ‘.ly’ file
 ..............................
 
 Double-click the LilyPond icon on your desktop and an example file will
 open.
 
 [lilypond/pictures/LilyPad]
    From the menus that appear along the top of the example file, select
 ‘File > Save as’.  Do not use the ‘File > Save’ for the example file as
 this will not work until you have given it a valid LilyPond file name.
 
 [lilypond/pictures/FileSave]
    Choose a name for your file, for example ‘test.ly’.
 
 [lilypond/pictures/SaveAs]
 Step 2. Compile
 ...............
 
 To turn your LilyPond file into a music score, you need to compile it.
 This can be done a number of ways – using drag and drop, with
 right-click, double-clicking or using the command line (a DOS box).
 We’ll look at the first three to start with.
 
    1.  Drag-and-drop the file directly onto the LilyPond icon on the
 desktop.
 
 [lilypond/pictures/DragDrop]
    Not much will seem to happen, but after a short while, you should see
 two new files on your desktop – ‘test.log’ and ‘test.pdf’.
 
    2.  Right-click on the file and from the pop-up context menu and
 choose ‘Generate PDF’.
 
 [lilypond/pictures/GenPDF]
    3.  Or simply double-click the ‘test.ly’.
 
 Step 3. View output
 ...................
 
 ‘test.pdf’ contains the engraved ‘test.ly’ file.  Double-click it and it
 should open in your PDF viewer:
 
 [lilypond/pictures/PDFRead]
 Other commands
 ..............
 
 To create a new file, begin by selecting ‘File > New’ from within any
 previously created file or ‘File > Open’ to open and edit any files you
 have saved before.  You can also edit a file by right-clicking it and
 selecting ‘Edit source’.
 
 [lilypond/pictures/EditFile]
    You must save any edits you make before you try to compile your file.
 If the PDF file is not created or the output is not what you expected,
 check the log file that will have been created during the compilation
 attempt for any errors.
 
 [lilypond/pictures/BadLog]
    This log file is overwritten each time you compile your LilyPond
 file.
 
    If you are viewing your file in a PDF viewer, then you must close the
 PDF if you wish to try a new compilation as it may fail to create the
 new PDF while it is still being viewed.
 
 [lilypond/pictures/BadLog2]
 Legalese
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 All logos and product images are copyright and trademark acknowledged.
 
    The “four colored rectangles image” is not a registered trademark.
 It was created by Rohitbd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rohitbd)
 and placed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2.  We
 found the image on this Wikimedia Commons page
 (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Microsoft_Windows_logos).
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