I use BBedit, the great text editor for MacOS, for all of my editing of .ly
files since it gives me things like grep, search and replace over a
selection, keyboard shortcuts, and many many other features that make text
editing more efficient. Highly recommended.
However, I grew tired of switching back and forth between Lilypond and
BBedit to compile output, so I created this small script that lets you
assign it a hot key and will compile the front most window using Lilypond
from within BBedit.
This script will work with any application that lets you get the name and
location of the front most window, but you will need to change that to match
the program you are using yourself.
You also will need to add where your copy of Lilypond is (mine is in the
applications folder) and this script currently puts the output .pdf file on
the Desktop, where Preview then opens it.
To use this script:
1) Copy the text below
2) Paste into Script Editor
3) Change the path to your copy of Lilypond
4) Modify the output destination to another folder if you don't want it on
the desktop.
5) Place the script in BBedits Scripts folder
6) Edit your file in BBedit and when you want to see the output, select the
script
I assigned this script a keyboard command (shift-control-R) so I edit, hit
that command, and in a few seconds, my output appears in Preview.
Lilypond does not even launch (the UI anyway). However, I still need to
launch Lilypond with the file sometimes, since it offers better error
reporting. Usually only at the beginning of a project, just to get the
errors are ironed out.
I am trying to figure out how to get the console output of Lilypond back
into BBedit, so any errors appear there and that will eliminate the need to
have to launch the Lilyond app.
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set TheOutputPath to the POSIX path of (path to desktop)
set ThelilyPath to POSIX path of
/Volumes/HD01/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond -o
tell application BBEdit
copy file of window 1 to TheFile
copy name of window 1 to TheFilename
end tell
set TheUnixPath to the POSIX path of TheFile
set FinalPath to quoted form of the POSIX path of (TheOutputPath
TheFilename)
set TheCommand to ThelilyPath FinalPath quoted form of the POSIX
path of TheUnixPath
try
do shell script TheCommand
end try
set TheOutputFile to TheOutputPath TheFilename .pdf
try
do shell script open quoted form of the POSIX path of TheOutputFile
end try
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Daniel
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