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kje...@u.washington.edu wrote:
I attempted to follow instruction set C for LilyPond & Terminal install
on Mac
OS X Leopard. I've run into problems.
"Download the latest stable release (2.12.2-1) of LilyPond and put
LilyPond.app
in your Applications folder."
Check.
"Download this shell script and start it using Terminal."
I right-clicked and Saved Link As... lilypondshscript to my Desktop without
appending any file extension. I wasn't having any success "starting it
using
Terminal" until, eventually, I found instructions online for the syntax for
running a non-executable sh script.
Upon doing so, a "Drop your LilyPond source file here and press Enter"
instruction line appeared.
I assume that the instructions online mean this same file when it says:
"Drop
your .ly file into the Terminal window and follow the instructions."
There are no instructions online regarding the location of this .ly
source file.
I right-clicked and selected Show Package Contents on the LilyPond icon
in my
Applications folder. After poking around through it and trying different
things,
I eventually came across an .ly file.
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.ly
I dragged this file to the terminal window (its path appeared) and hit
enter.
Here is my Terminal printout:
Macintosh:~ kjell$ sh /Users/kjell/Desktop/lilypondshscript
****************************************************************
Drop your LilyPond source file here and press Enter
****************************************************************
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.12.2
Changing working directory to:
`/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources'
Processing
`/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.ps'...
Converting to `./Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.pdf'...
The file
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources//Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.midi
does not exist.
****************************************************************
Continue to work. When finished, save your document and choose :
****************************************************************
Refresh: 1
Quit: 2
Very encouragingly, a pdf file with "A scale in LilyPond" header and
picture of
an ascending c scale popped up. But then nothing else.
Once I realized I could click on the notes, I tried that. A new window
appeared
with the following content:
%{
Welcome to LilyPond
===================
Congratulations, LilyPond has been installed successfully.
Now to take it for the first test run.
1. Save this file
2. Select
Compile > Typeset file
from the menu.
The file is processed, and
3. The PDF viewer will pop up. Click one of the noteheads.
That's it. For more information, visit http://lilypond.org .
%}
\header{
title = "A scale in LilyPond"
}
\relative {
c d e f g a b c
}
\version "2.12.2" % necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond versions.
But there appears to be no menu, drop down or otherwise, in LilyPond and
thus no
way to save, compile, or do much of anything, besides type pointlessly in a
blank window (Furthermore, the only way to stop LilyPond from appearing
as an
active program is to Force Quit it).
I closed the Welcome to LilyPond window and decided to see if
double-clicking
the LilyPond icon could accomplish anything new. A blank, Untitled window
appeared that I was able to type in and save(!), but again, no way to
compile it
and no menu of anything to access.
So what's going on? Please assist.
I had never heard of this method until your email arrived, but I
tried it out and I understand how it's supposed to work. From what
you said it seems to be working just right. First question,
though, is this your first time to use Lilypond? If so then you
have to understand that it's a very different program from what
you may be used to, inasmuch as you create your scores by writing
source code in plain text files, which are saved with the
extension .ly (that's why it said to drop your .ly source file
here). I'm guessing that the blank window that was open was an
editor window. If not, then you would need to open a text editor
and write some code in there and save it as something like
"test.ly". You can use mac's TextEdit application, but I'd
recommend something more robust like Smultron, which is free.
Open up an editor (not a word processor) and save this code with a
filename of your choice having the .ly extension (best not to put
spaces in the filename):
%% begin code
\version "2.12.1"
\relative c' { c d e f g a b c }
%% end code
Drop the file into the terminal window like you did before. The
way it works is that you keep your text editor window open and
write your code, then save it using the text editor's save
command. Then go back to the terminal window and type 1 <return>
to recompile it or 2 <return> to exit. Lilypond itself won't have
any menu items or anything, it's all operating in the background.
All of your work on the score is done in the text editor.
To get it to work this way on my 10.4 machine I had to hack the
script a bit, but I could tell from looking at it how it was
supposed to function. If you're brand new to Lilypond, then your
next step would be to go through the Tutorial in the Learning
Manual and it'll get you going pretty quickly.
Hope that helps,
Jon
--
Jonathan Kulp
http://www.jonathankulp.com
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