Actually, Tim, there *is* an incantation for Homebrew too, it just doesn't
really work very easily.  It seems people are working on it.


On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote:

> Oh, dear.  Very sorry for what seemed no doubt like an entire school of
> red herring.
>
> There is an incantation to use for installing Frescobaldi via MacPorts
> (sudo port install lilypond) but not AFAIK Homebrew.
>
> Much, much easier is David L’s .dmg Frescobaldi package that has already
> been identified with URL.  Had my answer been more complete (i.e., had I
> thought to include the flamin’ URL for the Frescobaldi package) things
> would have been much, much simpler for you.
>
> IMHO Frescobaldi works better than Emacs and lilypond-mode, but some folks
> have Emacs keybindings coded into their fingers and prefer to stay with
> that.
>
> In this case the incomplete answer was much worse than no answer at all.
>  I apologize, rif!
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 10, 2014, at 8:01 AM, rif <r...@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I spent multiple hours in install hell trying to get a homebrew
> install of frescobaldi to work, with zero success.  AFAICT homebrew doesn't
> really have forums or mailing lists?  I might stick with emacs for now.
> >
> > rif
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:32 PM, rif <r...@mit.edu> wrote:
> > And just to be clear, when you see Frescobaldi is easy to install, it
> looks to me like I have to first install Homebrew, then I have to manually
> install XQuartz and and MacTeX [neither of which is packaged with
> Homebrew], and *then* I can just do a "brew install frescobaldi"?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:15 PM, rif <r...@mit.edu> wrote:
> > Cool.  Maybe it makes sense to update the documentation to indicate the
> elisp files are in the precompiled tarball and just to point at them?  That
> "make install" is a red herring.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:15 PM, R. Mattes <r...@mh-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 May 2014 13:44:31 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote
> > > [...snip...]
> > > (setq path
> > >
> >
> "/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/tim/bin:/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin")
> > > (setenv "PATH" path)
> > >
> > > (setq load-path (append (list
> >
> (expand-file-name"/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/site-lisp"))
> > load-path))
> >
> > Much easier to do:
> > (add-to-list 'load-path
> >
> (expand-file-name"/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/site-lisp"))
> >
> >
> > Cheers, Ralf Mattes
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
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