Rutgers, I see what you're trying to do. (and silly me for not seeing this before to!)
You are trying to type the contents of lilypond.sh into the command line. You have failed because its meant to be run as a single command. $INSTALL in that script is a variable which is set to /Applications which is where Lilypond is. The rest of the script burrows into the application bundle and calls lilypond. I tested it like this: First I typed just lilpond.sh ------------------ terminal snip ----------- LilyPond produces beautiful music notation. For more information, see http://lilypond.org Options: -b, --backend=BACK use backend BACK (gnome, ps [default], scm, svg, tex, texstr) -d, --define-default=SYM=VAL set a Scheme program option. Uses #t if VAL is not specified Try -dhelp for help. -e, --evaluate=EXPR evaluate scheme code -f, --formats=FORMATs dump FORMAT,... Also as separate options: --dvi generate DVI (tex backend only) --pdf generate PDF (default) --png generate PNG --ps generate PostScript --tex generate TeX (tex backend only) -h, --help print this help -H, --header=FIELD dump a header field to file BASENAME.FIELD -I, --include=DIR add DIR to search path -i, --init=FILE use FILE as init file -o, --output=FILE write output to FILE (suffix will be added) -j, --jail=USER,GROUP,JAIL,DIR chroot to JAIL, become USER:GROUP and cd into DIR --no-print do not generate printed output -p, --preview generate a preview of the first system -s, --safe-mode run in safe mode -v, --version print version number -V, --verbose be verbose -w, --warranty show warranty and copyright Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------- end teminal snip -------------- That told me the right flag to use to get lilypond to produce png files instead of pdf. I tested it on a Bach Invention i had just finished typsetting: lilypond.sh -f png invention.ly After rendering I was left with this list of files: invention-page1.png invention-page2.png invention-page3.png invention.ly invention.midi invention.ps If you type this: lilypond.sh -f png <yourDocument.ly> the output will be similar. There is yoru PNG and its way easier than I thouught The out put will be (assuming there are no errors) your typset music as post script file, a midi file and you will find PNG files for each page of music manuscript you produced. I hope this makes things WAY easier! Let me know if there are any other questions. -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for music" Sergei Rachmaninov _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
