On Thu 31 Oct 2024 at 12:22:12 (-0400), Lydia Westerberg wrote: > How can I have someone assist me in downloading > the lily;ond 2.24.4 on m iMac Sonoma 14.5? > > It doesn’t seem possible to simply download > my old 2.18.2.
Presumably 2.18.2 was never built for this architecture so such a binary might not even exist. If the machine is enough like a 10-yr older one, then binaries might be found at: http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/ where some architectures go back to 2.10, 2.8, and even 2.6. > If there is a way to install my 2.18.2 lilypond program, > please let me know. To some extent, that depends on why you want to stick with 2.18.2. If it's because, say, you have a large codebase of 2.18.2 scores and need to tweak them (or avoid retweaking them), then the easiest way may be to acquire a cheap PC, install linux and LilyPond onto it, and run LP on it as a server from the mac, using ssh (secure shell) or vnc (Virtual Network Computing). Otherwise, like anybody else, I'd recommend upgrading to the new version of LP, and converting your source files to match. Looking back at some of your posts over the past four years (which might not be representative of course), some of the suggestions have involved upgrading from 2.18.2, and I can't see much in the sources that would complicate that. The differences in white space that result from conversion are much more subtle than the alterations you have presumably made to achieve the spacings that your posts were asking for. Cheers, David.
