Thank you. If I upgrade to the new LP version, then I need assistance.
> On Oct 31, 2024, at 8:35 PM, David Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu 31 Oct 2024 at 12:22:12 (-0400), Lydia Westerberg wrote: >> How can I have someone assist me in downloading >> the lily;ond 2.24.4 on m iMac Sonoma 14.5? >> >> It doesn’t seem possible to simply download >> my old 2.18.2. > > Presumably 2.18.2 was never built for this architecture so such > a binary might not even exist. If the machine is enough like a > 10-yr older one, then binaries might be found at: > > http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/Li > > where some architectures go back to 2.10, 2.8, and even 2.6. > >> If there is a way to install my 2.18.2 lilypond program, >> please let me know. > > To some extent, that depends on why you want to stick with 2.18.2. > If it's because, say, you have a large codebase of 2.18.2 scores > and need to tweak them (or avoid retweaking them), then the easiest > way may be to acquire a cheap PC, install linux and LilyPond onto > it, and run LP on it as a server from the mac, using ssh (secure > shell) or vnc (Virtual Network Computing). > > Otherwise, like anybody else, I'd recommend upgrading to the > new version of LP, and converting your source files to match. > > Looking back at some of your posts over the past four years (which > might not be representative of course), some of the suggestions > have involved upgrading from 2.18.2, and I can't see much in the > sources that would complicate that. The differences in white space > that result from conversion are much more subtle than the alterations > you have presumably made to achieve the spacings that your posts > were asking for. > > Cheers, > David.
