Hi,

Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:

> 1.
> Did you install only lilypond and use it?
> When I installed it, there was no icon/symbol in my menu
> so I didn’t know how to open lilypond.

Lilypond is a commandline program that turns textual descriptions of the
score into a PDF (or midi). You use

lilypond THE_FILENAME.ly

to create the document, so automation is much easier.

You edit the .ly-files with any text editor you choose.

> 2.
> How could I have opened lilypond?

If you open a command shell, you should be able to simply type lilypond
(or, on Windows: lilypond.exe) to run it.

> 4.
> I would have to learn it from scratch
> and additionally through importing songs from Musescore
> I would see what the code looks like.

That’s one of the advantages of lilypond: you actually see what it does.
It’s the LaTeX of music and provides the most beautiful scores.

Best wishes,
Arne
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