Re: GUI

2009-12-18 Thread Robert Ley
Thanks. I had found most of that. What I had meant is more along the lines of what Tim McNamara said: IMHO here is where we run into the issue of what LilyPond *is.* It's a backend with no face, basically. This is something that most Windows and Mac users will find hard to grasp initially,

Re: Lilypond not working on internal disk on Mac

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Ley
Yup. I don't know enough about using a Terminal program or anything else to get LilyPond to run without using the GUI. I need the GUI and that's what doesn't work. RDL ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailma

Re: Lilypond not working on internal disk on Mac

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Ley
The hard disc format is determined by the type of processor you have in the machine: GUID format for Intel chips, MacOS Extended for PPC chips. I have a G4 [PPC] chip, so both Ext. and Int. are formatted with MacOS Extended. The EXTERNAL has a different system, 10.4.11, under which LilyPond

Re: No Work! 10.5.8 vs. 10.4.11

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Ley
So i do not think the problem is with you at all. Thanks. I was beginning to wonder... Indeed you are able to get this working on an external disk - which makes no real sense to me, only because if it works on an external disk it should work on an internal disk, the operating system is the

No Work!

2009-12-13 Thread Robert Ley
Re: Version 2.12.2-1 Downloaded both documentation and program. Downloaded fine. Dragged ap to applications folder. Put documentation folder there too. Double-clicked the application and I get a text file that says: "save this file" "Select 'compile>typeset file' from the menu--" NOTHING comes up w