Re: Lilypond-book problem

[Knute Snortum]

Well, I had the same experience as you.  One solution is to type:

    python3 "C:Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book"

You could put that in a batch file somewhere in your PATH.  There may
be other solutions too.

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Knute Snortum


On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 10:26 PM Rip _Mus <ripetizioni.musica@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good morning,
> thanks for the reply!  You're right, I could have added a few more details.
> The operating system is Windows 10. For using Lilypond on command line, I 
> followed the instructions on the site.
> I added the folder "C:Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin" to the 
> environmental variable “Path”.
>  I think I followed them well, as the "ilypond" command works.  The other 
> commands "lilypond-book" and "convert-ly" instead give me the following 
> message:
>
> 'lilypond-book' is not recognized as an internal or external command
>
> What I notice is that in the folder in question there are lilypond-book and 
> convert-ly scripts, but they are without extension (for example * .py)
>
> What do you think about?
>
>
> Il lun 5 set 2022, 02:13 Knute Snortum <ksnortum@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 9:06 AM Rip _Mus <ripetizioni.musica@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Good morning,
>> > I have installed the version 2.22.1, wich I used for a lot of big project.
>> > A lot of times I tried to open terminal and run "lilypond-book" but 
>> > without success. I already add the folder "...\usr\bin" to the 
>> > environmental variabile path, in fact the command "lilypond" runs.
>> > Someone could help me?
>>
>> It would be helpful to know exactly what is going wrong.  Do you get
>> error messages?  Post them.  Not doing what you think it should?  Tell
>> us what it's doing and what you think it should be doing.  Also, tell
>> us the OS, is it linux?
>>
>> --
>> Knute Snortum