Hi,

thanks for your help.

It gives the same result:

if I go into my lilypond manifest or open lilypond with
guix shell lilypond nano mercurial timidity++

I can’t create a document with:
lilypond THE_FILENAME.ly

with:
guix shell lilypond nano -- nano test.ly
I can create a document.

I was able to clone your songbook
but
listen to it: > timidity delfini-tune.midi
was impossible. nothing happend after entering this command

to create a pdf was possible.

May be missing packages
like gtk stuff and something for midi.
 >

with which command can I copy the songbook from this guix shell into my 
home folder?


kind regards

Gottfried



Am 21.03.23 um 08:24 schrieb Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide:
> Hi Gottfried,
> 
> Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:
> 
>>> You use
>>>> lilypond THE_FILENAME.ly
>>>> to create the document,
>>
>>
>> I tried to go into my lilypond profile
> 
> How do you go into the lilypond profile?
> guix shell lilypond?
> 
>> 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'
> 
> This sounds like gtk stuff is missing.
> 
>> Do I have to install something else?
>>
>> How can I create a .ly file in the terminal?
> 
> As a start you can use the simplest editor: nano
> 
> guix shell lilypond nano -- nano test.ly
> 
> Just edit the file there, then press CTRL-o to save and CTRL-x to exit
> nano.
> 
> for starters:
> 
> # get a shell with the required programs
> guix shell lilypond nano mercurial timidity++
> 
> hg clone https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/draketos-songbook
> cd draketos-songbook
> # edit the file
> nano delfini-tune.ly
> # create pdf and midi
> lilypond delfini-tune.ly
> # see the output
> evince delfini-tune.pdf
> # listen to it
> timidity delfini-tune.midi
> 
> (that example is a song I set for my kids, so don’t expect anything fancy)
> 
> Best wishes,
> Arne