Frescobaldi itself does not generate sheet music. You need to install Lilypond also. In my experience with Catalina, Hans Aberg's .mkpg installs with a double click and works fine(except for convert-ly, apparently).
Frescobaldi 3 does not work out of the box on the Mac; there are a half a dozen dependencies that have to be installed first. The 64-bit version of 2.20 does work well. I haven't gotten around to getting F3 running as obtaining and installing the dependencies on the Mac is kind of a nuisance due to how locked down MacOS is, unless one is using a package manager such as Homebrew, MacPorts, etc. I am not using one of those. > On Nov 14, 2019, at 3:20 AM, Jeremiah Reilly <jeremiah.p.rei...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Carl, thanks for both tips. > > The Frescobaldi Downloads page states "Install a copy of Lilypond as well." > Not sure how that jives with Catalina. > > Sorry to be inept re packages and making from source. I am a musician, not a > developer. > > Your help much appreciated. > >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 4:34 PM Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> wrote: >> >> >> From: Jeremiah Reilly <jeremiah.p.rei...@gmail.com> >> Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 3:14 AM >> To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> >> Subject: Mac OS 10.15 Catalina >> >> What is the status of running Lilypond under Mac os 10.15 Catalina? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> (Apologies if the answer is clearly posted on the website or Lilypond blog. >> I searched 20+ minutes without success. I cannot upgrade to Catalina until I >> know whether Lilypond will run. I found posting for folks running Lilypond >> in a virtual machine or Decker, but that's not my bag.) >> >> Search for 64-bit, and you’d find it. But putting a response on a thread >> with Catalina in a title is probably a good idea. >> >> You can get an installable LilyPond package created by Hans Aberg here: >> >> https://www.et.byu.edu/~sorensen/lilypond-devel-2.19.83_2.mpkg >> >> There is a 64-bit Frescobaldi installer for Version 2.20: >> >> >> https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/releases/download/v2.20.0/Frescobaldi-2.20.0-x86_64.dmg >> >> HTH, >> >> Carl >> >> >>
