If you're absolutely brand new to lilypond, using the terminal may
not be the best solution. Unless you are very familiar with terminal
applications, in which case, I would suggest the instructions in the
documentation at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/
lilypond-program/Setup-for-MacOS-X#Setup-for-MacOS-X for setting up
lilypond, otherwise, I would suggest that as a completely new person
to lilypond, you start with jedit and lilypondtool. It's probably
more along the lines of what you're looking for. More information can
be found here: http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/
Also, I would suggest starting reading the learning manual, it's
designed as a do-it-yourself course in how lilypond works, and how to
typeset your music with lilypond.
Good luck!
Am 06.06.2009 um 05:45 schrieb kje...@u.washington.edu:
I attempted to follow instruction set C for LilyPond & Terminal
install on Mac
OS X Leopard. I've run into problems.
"Download the latest stable release (2.12.2-1) of LilyPond and put
LilyPond.app
in your Applications folder."
Check.
"Download this shell script and start it using Terminal."
I right-clicked and Saved Link As... lilypondshscript to my Desktop
without
appending any file extension. I wasn't having any success "starting
it using
Terminal" until, eventually, I found instructions online for the
syntax for
running a non-executable sh script.
Upon doing so, a "Drop your LilyPond source file here and press Enter"
instruction line appeared.
I assume that the instructions online mean this same file when it
says: "Drop
your .ly file into the Terminal window and follow the instructions."
There are no instructions online regarding the location of this .ly
source file.
I right-clicked and selected Show Package Contents on the LilyPond
icon in my
Applications folder. After poking around through it and trying
different things,
I eventually came across an .ly file.
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/Welcome-to-LilyPond-
MacOS.ly
I dragged this file to the terminal window (its path appeared) and
hit enter.
Here is my Terminal printout:
Macintosh:~ kjell$ sh /Users/kjell/Desktop/lilypondshscript
****************************************************************
Drop your LilyPond source file here and press Enter
****************************************************************
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/Welcome-to-LilyPond-
MacOS.ly GNU LilyPond 2.12.2
Changing working directory to: `/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/
Resources'
Processing
`/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/Welcome-to-LilyPond-
MacOS.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.ps'...
Converting to `./Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.pdf'...
The file
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources//Welcome-to-LilyPond-
MacOS.midi
does not exist.
****************************************************************
Continue to work. When finished, save your document and choose :
****************************************************************
Refresh: 1
Quit: 2
Very encouragingly, a pdf file with "A scale in LilyPond" header
and picture of
an ascending c scale popped up. But then nothing else.
Once I realized I could click on the notes, I tried that. A new
window appeared
with the following content:
%{
Welcome to LilyPond
===================
Congratulations, LilyPond has been installed successfully.
Now to take it for the first test run.
1. Save this file
2. Select
Compile > Typeset file
from the menu.
The file is processed, and
3. The PDF viewer will pop up. Click one of the noteheads.
That's it. For more information, visit http://lilypond.org .
%}
\header{
title = "A scale in LilyPond"
}
\relative {
c d e f g a b c
}
\version "2.12.2" % necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond
versions.
But there appears to be no menu, drop down or otherwise, in
LilyPond and thus no
way to save, compile, or do much of anything, besides type
pointlessly in a
blank window (Furthermore, the only way to stop LilyPond from
appearing as an
active program is to Force Quit it).
I closed the Welcome to LilyPond window and decided to see if
double-clicking
the LilyPond icon could accomplish anything new. A blank, Untitled
window
appeared that I was able to type in and save(!), but again, no way
to compile it
and no menu of anything to access.
So what's going on? Please assist.
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