Hi,

thanks for your help

> You use
>> 
>> lilypond THE_FILENAME.ly
>> 
>> to create the document, 


I tried to go into my lilypond profile
and to create a lilypond file:

lilypond test.ly

but it doesn’t create a document.

message:
test.ly can’t be found.

Than I created a file:
touch test.ly

and opended it with:
gedit test.ly

So I can edit this file but
terminal message:
TypeError: Couldn't find foreign struct converter for 'cairo.Context'


Do I have to install something else?

How can I create a .ly file in the terminal?

On the lilypond website they create a file with frescobaldi, but they 
don’t explain how to do it in the terminal.



Kind regards

Gottfried


Am 20.03.23 um 15:43 schrieb Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide:
> 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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