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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: abc2ly on Windows XP
From:       Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengtsson () ee ! kth ! se>
Date:       2006-06-29 12:34:09
Message-ID: 44A3C8C1.6060801 () ee ! kth ! se
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Laura Conrad wrote:

>I've searched both google and the mailing list archives and can't
>find a good answer to this question:
>
>Is there documentation somewhere of what you have to do to run abc2ly
>in Windows XP?
>
>I remember from reading the mailing list that there's an issue with
>the Python that's in the GUB, and that one has to install python
>separately and make sure that abc2ly is using the separate install and
>not the one in the GUB.  My ability to support non-technical users in
>windows is limited, so I was hoping someone had already written
>instructions for doing this.  My windows and ABC using friend says she
>has not installed any version of python except the one that came with
>lilypond.
>
>  
>
It seems that this is no longer an issue. You can just open a command prompt
and run the program.

>A related question -- if this is indeed still the problem I read about
>on the mailing list a few months ago, why?  I can understand that the
>lilypond developers may not be able to fix a python bug, but why go on
>including a python version that doesn't work?
>
>Below is the ABC file that works (generates a compileable lily
>file) on my LINUX installation and fails to work on her Windows
>installation.   If this is some other problem than the one I vaguely
>remember from the list, I'll send it to the bugs list.
>
>|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||test.abc file||||||||||
>X:1
>T:Test Title
>C:A. Composer "with a quote next to it"
>K:B
>C D E F G
>|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||end test.abc|||||||||||||
>
>On linux, the C: line is correctly translated to:
>
>	composer = "A. Composer \"with a quote next to it\""
>
>On Windows, the line is translated to:
>
>         composer = "A. Composer \\"with a quote next to it\\""
>
>which lily 2.8.5 complains about:
>
>  
>
Weird! I just tried your example on WinXP with lily 2.8.5-1 and it works
without problems, i.e. I get the same .ly file as you get on Linux and the
file compiles without problems in LilyPond.

   /Mats



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