Re: Suggestion for Mac OS 10.4

[Graham Percival]

On 11-Aug-05, at 2:44 AM, Hans Aberg wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2005, at 01:53, Graham Percival wrote:
> > I don't understand.  You can use any text editor you like; just save 
> > the file
> > and run lilypond on it.  Lilypond doesn't know what text editor
> > you used to create the file.
>
> The MAc OS X Application has its own editor, and evidently expects one 
> to open the file from within the program, and then compile it. So it 
> is not very convenient if one is working in another editor, especially 
> if the same file is open at the same time in both that editor and the 
> LilyPond editor.

Ah, I see.  The OSX application is a very new thing; previous versions 
of lilypond
were completely command-line driven (like latex).  I still run lilypond 
from the
command line all the time (using vim, my favorite text editor).  If 
you're interested
in that, take a look at the readme for configuration details.

The OSX editor is a fairly basic text editor; when you "compile" a 
score, it just
saves the text file somewhere and calls lilypond on it.  There's 
absolutely
no disadvantage to using another text editor.

In any case, this is a discussion for -user instead of bugs-.

Cheers,
- Graham