2009/6/6 Kjell <kjel...@hotmail.com>: > I attempted to follow instruction set C for LilyPond & Terminal install on Mac > OS X Leopard. I've run into problems. [...] > So what's going on? Please assist.
Greetings, and sorry for the delay. Porting LilyPond to Mac OS 10.5 has been really painful for the past couple of years (we recently had a breakthrough, but it's not officially implemented yet). First of all, I hope you know how LilyPond works: all it does is take a text file, written with a special syntax, and turn it into a music score. So, basically, all you need is some kind of a text editor. We (try to) ship one with LilyPond, but it's a very limited one; there are much better editors out there, to begin with jEdit (which has a special LilyPondTool plugin) and Smultron (which has native support for coloring LilyPond code). What I'd do is to follow the instructions on http://ivo.bouwmans.name/lilypondleopard/ either with Smultron or jEdit/LilyPondTool (Smultron is lighter, but less powerful when it comes to LilyPond code). I hope that you haven't been discouraged by this bad first experience with LilyPond; once again, we're hoping to fix this Apple compatibility problem very soon. Regards, Valentin _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
