Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-23 Thread Brett Duncan
On 24/8/05, Trevor Baca wrote: On 8/20/05, Bec and John Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Brett, A more GUI-based solution is to output to PDF as normal, then just "Save as..." from Preview.app as a PNG. An even more Mac-ish GUI-ish solution is to output to pdf as normal, open the pdf in

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-23 Thread Trevor Baca
On 8/20/05, Bec and John Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Brett, > > A more GUI-based solution is to output to PDF as normal, then just > "Save as..." from Preview.app as a PNG. An even more Mac-ish GUI-ish solution is to output to pdf as normal, open the pdf in Preview, and then avail yours

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-22 Thread David Fedoruk
Hello: I'd like to suggest to all the Mac OS X users here that if they do not already know the basics of a UNIX shell like what you find when you open Terminal, that you take some time to find a tutorial on the web and follow it through. When you have done a few of the tutorials you will find usi

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-22 Thread Hans Aberg
On 21 Aug 2005, at 14:47, Rutger Hofman wrote: Hans Aberg wrote: On 21 Aug 2005, at 11:08, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I think /usr/local/bin/lilypond is the shell script to invoke it from the command line. It currently says # run the program python "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/Contents

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-22 Thread Henrik Frisk
If you have the OSX version installed, you can create a symlink to lilypond.sh in /usr/local/bin and use it just as the commandline tool would work on Linux or with the Fink version of LilyPond. Do ln -s /usr/local/bin/lilypond.sh /usr/local/bin/lilypond and open a new terminal window. /Henri

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread David Fedoruk
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 wh

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Rutger Hofman
Hans Aberg wrote: On 21 Aug 2005, at 11:08, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I think /usr/local/bin/lilypond is the shell script to invoke it from the command line. It currently says # run the program python "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lilycall.py" \ "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.ap

RE: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Fairchild
Does Win XP have similar capabilities? - Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Fedoruk Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 12:15 PM To: Mailinglist Subject: Re: Output other than PDF I'm currently using

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread David Fedoruk
I'm currently using jEdit wtithe Mac OS X Panther, and while I regret that the preferences pannel has nto been enabled, this isn't a major problem. Using the llilytool plugin I can write my code and compile it from within jEdit. The output is a pdf file but most mac users have several applications

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: ># run the program >python "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lilycall.py" \ >"$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/" $* > > but if you put "$*" it doesn't work for multiple arguments What about "$@". Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPo

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Hans Aberg
On 21 Aug 2005, at 11:08, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I think /usr/local/bin/lilypond is the shell script to invoke it from the command line. It currently says # run the program python "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lilycall.py" \ "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/" $* but if you p

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2005-08-21 um 10:49 schrieb Brett Duncan: Many thanks to those who responded. FWIW, even though I'm now able to call Lilypond from the command line and specify PNG output, I think that enabling the GUI version on Mac to let the user select the output format could be a useful addition. I

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Normally you can quote spaces as "\ "like in /User/me/My\ Documents The file completion, single or double quotes all produce the same result, like: $ /usr/local/bin/lilypond foo\ bar.ly GNU LilyPond 2.7.4 warning: can't find file: `foo' warning: can't find file: `bar.ly

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Brett Duncan wrote: Many thanks to those who responded. It turns out that I had a case of brainfade - I had put the shell script that came with Lilypond where it could be triggered by LilyTool in jEdit, but not in a directory that was in $PATH. Hence a call to lilypond from the command line d

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Brett Duncan
Many thanks to those who responded. It turns out that I had a case of brainfade - I had put the shell script that came with Lilypond where it could be triggered by LilyTool in jEdit, but not in a directory that was in $PATH. Hence a call to lilypond from the command line did nothing. FWIW, e

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hans Aberg writes: >> Normally you can quote spaces as "\ "like in /User/me/My\ Documents > > The file completion, single or double quotes all produce the same > result, like: > $ /usr/local/bin/lilypond foo\ bar.ly > GNU LilyPond 2.7.4 > warning: can't find file: `foo' > warning: can't find file:

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 20 Aug 2005, at 20:48, fiëé visuëlle wrote: One limitation seems to be that one cannot have spaces in the filepath, as the command "lilypond" does not seem to be able to handle it. Normally you can quote spaces as "\ "like in /User/me/My\ Documents The file completion, single or doub

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 20 Aug 2005, at 20:22, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: One limitation seems to be that one cannot have spaces in the filepath, as the command "lilypond" does not seem to be able to handle it. LilyPond can handle any sort of file name. LilyPond 2.4.x and earlier had problems with it, because of

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2005-08-20 um 20:01 schrieb Hans Aberg: One limitation seems to be that one cannot have spaces in the filepath, as the command "lilypond" does not seem to be able to handle it. Normally you can quote spaces as "\ "like in /User/me/My\ Documents Greetlings from Lake Constance --- fiëé vis

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hans Aberg writes: > One limitation seems to be that one cannot have spaces in the > filepath, as the command "lilypond" does not seem to be able to > handle it. LilyPond can handle any sort of file name. LilyPond 2.4.x and earlier had problems with it, because of the tex backend. Jan. -- Jan

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 20 Aug 2005, at 14:25, Brett Duncan wrote: I'm using the GUI application on Mac OS X, not a version that runs from the command line. The ReadMe file that came with the installer provides a shell script that uses Python to call Lilypond, and I've been able to use this in conjunction wit

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread Bec and John Silva
Hi Brett, A more GUI-based solution is to output to PDF as normal, then just "Save as..." from Preview.app as a PNG. -- John Brett, I am also using Lilypond on Mac OS X. The Python script is how you run Lilypond in the terminal as well. Open a terminal and type lilypond -h If you

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread Kris Shaffer
Brett, I am also using Lilypond on Mac OS X. The Python script is how you run Lilypond in the terminal as well. Open a terminal and type lilypond -h If you get the Lilypond help output, then you're all set to use Lilypond in the terminal with commands from Chapter 5. (If not, see the R

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread Brett Duncan
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Saturday 20 August 2005 09.24, Brett Duncan wrote: I'm using the Mac OS X binary of Lilypond (2.6.1) and loving it. But how do I get the output as something other than PDF? Specifically, I want PNG, but PS would also be useful. Obviously I can't use the GUI to achieve th

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 20 August 2005 09.24, Brett Duncan wrote: > I'm using the Mac OS X binary of Lilypond (2.6.1) and loving it. But how > do I get the output as something other than PDF? Specifically, I want > PNG, but PS would also be useful. Obviously I can't use the GUI to > achieve this, so I'm assumi