Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> You are very kind. I shall give it a go. But I think you will have > to agree that this is some 5 orders (***) of magnitude more complex > than versions: 2.12.3, 2.18.2-1, and 2.20.0. I never would have got > into Lilypond were I starting from here. Please always bear in mind that *none* of t

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 6 oct. 2023 à 01:23, Knute Snortum a écrit : > > I don't think you ever had the ability to just press a button and install > LilyPond. It used to be true on macOS and Windows. There was a (very minimal) GUI application with basically a simple text editor and a menu button to compile

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
David, > Perhaps that might be made clearer in the macOS section of > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/web/download . Could you provide better wording for this and the other issues you are mentioning? I can then incorporate your changes into the documentation. Werner

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 Oct 2023 at 23:12:44 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 5 oct. 2023 à 22:39, Ian West a écrit : > > Dear David (copied to Jean, and Paul,) > > You are very kind. I shall give it a go. But I think you will have to > > agree that this is some 5 orders (***) of magnitude more comp

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread Knute Snortum
I'm going to jump in here and hopely not muddy the waters. You say that you need to know the terminal and many other things to install Lilypond 2.24, but I don't think this is true. I'm not on a Mac; I'm on Ubuntu GNU/Linux but they are similar, I believe. First you go to the download page: htt

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread Jean Abou Samra
  > Le 5 oct. 2023 à 22:39, Ian West a écrit : > Dear David (copied to Jean, and Paul,) > You are very kind. I shall give it a go. But I think you will have to > agree that this is some 5 orders (***) of magnitude more complex than > versions: 2.12.3, 2.18.2-1, and 2.20.0. I never would

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread Ian West
Dear David (copied to Jean, and Paul,) You are very kind. I shall give it a go. But I think you will have to agree that this is some 5 orders (***) of magnitude more complex than versions: 2.12.3, 2.18.2-1, and 2.20.0. I never would have got into Lilypond were I starting from here.

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 5 oct. 2023 à 21:26, David Wright a écrit : > > I'm sorry—perhaps I attached too much significance to the OP's > "I do not want to use Frescobaldi." If a GUI is required, > I would have thought a Mac editor could supply that, and > drag-and-drop could run LP on the file that's dropped ont

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 Oct 2023 at 19:43:27 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 5 oct. 2023 à 17:36, David Wright a écrit : > > > > Is this the way you should be going? > > No, it's not going to give him the GUI that he regrets. I'm sorry—perhaps I attached too much significance to the OP's "I do not want

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 5 oct. 2023 à 17:36, David Wright a écrit : > > Is this the way you should be going? No, it's not going to give him the GUI that he regrets.

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 5 oct. 2023 à 15:49, Ian West a écrit :Dear Lilypond team, continuing from 1 Sept 17:43hrs. (similar problems to Mark Stephen Mrotek though he is Windows.) I successfully used version 2.20.0 on my MacBook Air M2 2022, macOS 13.4.1 from August 2022 till July 2023. Now I cannot, and I have faile

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 Oct 2023 at 14:49:41 (+0100), Ian West wrote: > Dear Lilypond team, continuing from 1 Sept 17:43hrs. (similar problems to > Mark Stephen Mrotek though he is Windows.) > > I successfully used version 2.20.0 on my MacBook Air M2 2022, macOS > 13.4.1 from August 2022 till July 2023.

Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

2023-10-05 Thread Ian West
Dear Lilypond team, continuing from 1 Sept 17:43hrs. (similar problems to Mark Stephen Mrotek though he is Windows.) I successfully used version 2.20.0 on my MacBook Air M2 2022, macOS 13.4.1 from August 2022 till July 2023. Now I cannot, and I have failed (for a month) to overcome the