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The Score Extension transforms LilyPond or ABC markup into musical scores and / or midis

Installation [edit]

The Score extension depends on LilyPond. This package is fairly large (90 MB) and not portable (i.e.: it must be installed).

The following are installation instructions per operating system.

Windows [edit]

  • Go to the LilyPond Windows download page and download the "Windows: LilyPond *.**.*-*" package. At time of writing, this link is "Windows: LilyPond 2.16.2-1"
  • Run the exe. Choose the default installation path (C:\Program Files\Lilypond) or your XOWA bin directory (C:\xowa\bin\windows\lilypond)

Linux (Ubuntu, Mint) [edit]

  • Open up a terminal and run the following:

sudo apt-get install lilypond

This should install to /usr/bin/

Mac OS X [edit]

[Note: No testing has been done with Mac OS X machines, so these are best guesses]

Configuration [edit]

After the installation completes, you will need to specify the directory.

  • Go to Options/Score.
  • Configure the lilypond binary to whatever directory you chose above.
For Windows, that will probably be "C:\Program Files\Lilypond\usr\bin\lilypond.exe"
For Linux, that will probably be "/usr/bin/lilypond"
For Mac OS X, that will probably be "/bin/lilypond"
  • Configure the abc2ly binary
For Windows, that will probably be "C:\Program Files\Lilypond\usr\bin\python" (note that lilypond ships with python)
For Linux, that will probably be "/usr/bin/python" (note that the abc2ly.py script must be in the same directory as python)
For Mac OS X, that will probably be "/bin/python". (note that the abc2ly.py script must be in the same directory as python)

Testing [edit]

When you're done, visit Diagnostics and click on the Score links

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