Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread Daniel Miller
Thanks Ralf (and everyone!). Editing the abjads configuration file fixed my problem immediately. Abjad now writes to LilyPond exactly as it should. My apologies for my general incompetence in explaining my problem and following all of your helpful instructions. As I'm sure is obvious, I'm pretty n

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread Ralf Mattes
Am Freitag, 25. September 2015 17:03 CEST, Daniel Miller schrieb: > That's certainly a valid criticism, David, and my intention is certainly > not to waste anyone's time. However, I think it's natural that as users > (particularly very new users) search for information online, they will find

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 25.09.2015 um 17:13 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 25.09.2015 um 16:53 schrieb David Kastrup: Now it sounds as if you did not get a useful answer on Stackoverflow. But he did on Facebook. So I am one of the people who spent time and posted a solution that was no longer needed (I did this before

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 25.09.2015 um 16:53 schrieb David Kastrup: Now it sounds as if you did not get a useful answer on Stackoverflow. But he did on Facebook. So I am one of the people who spent time and posted a solution that was no longer needed (I did this before reading the mails from the list) … ___

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread Daniel Miller
That's certainly a valid criticism, David, and my intention is certainly not to waste anyone's time. However, I think it's natural that as users (particularly very new users) search for information online, they will find increasingly specialized help forums and/or will fail to find answers in one p

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread BB
That thread was a piss-take! On stackoverflow the search for "Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line" does not give any hit. One wonders about what peaople are to romp about on this blog? Apple developers in adversity? On 25.09.2015 16:53, David Kas

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread David Kastrup
Daniel Miller writes: > Thanks for your help Federico (and David). > > As to posting a question in multiple places, I don't see that as a problem. > Different online communities have different specialties and knowledge > areas. As you can see, very few LilyPond users saw my post on > stackoverflo

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread Daniel Miller
Thanks for your help Federico (and David). As to posting a question in multiple places, I don't see that as a problem. Different online communities have different specialties and knowledge areas. As you can see, very few LilyPond users saw my post on stackoverflow... so I came here instead. At wor

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread BB
Sorry therre are some errors in my lost post: 1. I tried chmod u+x is citated wrong. Correct in the post is written I tried chmod +x ("u" would mean make executable for user, for the owner of the file, but that was not written in the post) 2. chmod a+x does mean, make it executable for

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread BB
No problem at all, the net is as it is! But I definitely must declaire that I cannot find something like a clear "thread" and I cannot find the "core" of the question. But the thread is building yet. Obviously the other people trying to help are to be groping in the dark as well. One of the

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread Ralf Mattes
Am Freitag, 25. September 2015 15:52 CEST, BB schrieb: > May be you do not know that MxOs is a BSD unix? Ohhh puahhhleease! Give me a break. I do know the origins of OS X, but that's beside the point. Neither is any BS derivate "a Linux" nor does either Linux nor BSD support Appication

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread Federico Bruni
I didn't mean to be rude... I guess that you don't know what ~ means. That page is written by a Linux-minded/command-line user and a Mac user may not understand it well. When you save the file called lilypond using your favorite editor, make sure you save it in the folder bin under your home

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread BB
May be you do not know that MxOs is a BSD unix? On 25.09.2015 15:43, BB wrote: Thank you for your noisy mail. Help him yourself! On 25.09.2015 15:38, Ralf Mattes wrote: Am Freitag, 25. September 2015 15:29 CEST, BB schrieb: The OP wrote: "followed the steps at http://www.lilypond.org/

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread BB
Thank you for your noisy mail. Help him yourself! On 25.09.2015 15:38, Ralf Mattes wrote: Am Freitag, 25. September 2015 15:29 CEST, BB schrieb: The OP wrote: "followed the steps at http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html"; If you are on Linux type Can we please read (and understand) q

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread Ralf Mattes
Am Freitag, 25. September 2015 15:29 CEST, BB schrieb: The OP wrote: "followed the steps at http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html"; > If you are on Linux type Can we please read (and understand) questions before adding noise? Cheers, Ralf Mattes

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno ven 25 set 2015 alle 8:34, Federico Bruni ha scritto: Il giorno ven 25 set 2015 alle 4:28, Daniel Miller ha scritto: I'm new to the mailing list. I'm hoping that someone can give me some help with getting LilyPond to run on the command line. I followed the steps at http://www.lilypo

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread BB
If you are on Linux type find lilypond in a trminal window to check if and where lilypond is on your machine. To refine your search check find -help for options, in short: find {dir-name} -name {file-name} action On 25.09.2015 09:18, Urs Liska wrote: Am 25.09.2015 um 09:04 schrieb David Kast

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.09.2015 um 09:04 schrieb David Kastrup: > Federico Bruni writes: > >> Il giorno ven 25 set 2015 alle 4:28, Daniel Miller >> ha scritto: >>> I'm new to the mailing list. I'm hoping that someone can give me >>> some help with getting LilyPond to run on the command line. I >>> followed the st

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-25 Thread David Kastrup
Federico Bruni writes: > Il giorno ven 25 set 2015 alle 4:28, Daniel Miller > ha scritto: >> I'm new to the mailing list. I'm hoping that someone can give me >> some help with getting LilyPond to run on the command line. I >> followed the steps at http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html for >> inst

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-24 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno ven 25 set 2015 alle 4:28, Daniel Miller ha scritto: I'm new to the mailing list. I'm hoping that someone can give me some help with getting LilyPond to run on the command line. I followed the steps at http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html for installation. I then got through step 3,

Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

2015-09-24 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi everyone, I'm new to the mailing list. I'm hoping that someone can give me some help with getting LilyPond to run on the command line. I followed the steps at http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html for installation. I then got through step 3, creating lilypond-book, convert-ly, etc. However, I'm