> On 1 Nov 2024, at 21:57, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Fri 01 Nov 2024 at 11:57:41 (-0400), Lydia Westerberg wrote:
>> Thank you. If I upgrade to the new LP version, then I need assistance.
>
> There's a lot of assistance in §1.3 of the Learning Manual.
> You download the binary from the LP website, unpack it in
> the finder, and place whatever it produces into wherever
> you want to keep it and run it from.
>
> Presumably you're familiar with running LP.
IIRC 2.18.2 was also the last one to have the minimalistic GUI editor for
lilypond files (the Lilypond App), so not quite sure whether that would hold
true, Lydia may well have been using the minimalistic app to compile the
sources into rendered scores.
So Lydia, in case you’re expecting to have an application that opens a window
to allow you to enter lilypond code and build it into its rendered score you
may also want to take the recommendation from the same section of the learning
manual regarding installing Frescobaldi to have a (much more powerful than
before) application in which you edit / save / build your lilypond-scores.
Lilypond itself is nowadays only an application that is run by users using the
command-line shell (so manual commands from within the Terminal app on MacOS)
or by applications that execute the same command-line hidden in the background.
