Re: midi2ly

[Jim Sizelove]

Philip wrote:
> I'm have become familiar with the basics of this software, and am exploring some
> more advanced features.  One particular interest to me was converting MIDI files
> to .LY format.
>
> I'm running the latest vershon of LilyPond on Mac OS X v. 10.4.7 on an Intel
> processor.  I am also a Linux dabbler, so it was no big problem for me to
> discover that midi2ly uses the terminal.  However, when I tried to run the
> software, I was told that the command "midi2ly" was not found.  Is there
> something I'm overlooking?  I will admit that, while I'm modestly familiar with
> BASH, I haven't used it in OS X much.  Could that be the issue?
>
> Thanks for your help.  LilyPond seems to be a very good piece of software.

Yes, you almost certainly need to set your path.  See the page on "Notes 
for the MacOS X app" in the "Running LilyPond" section of the 
documentation. 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Notes-for-the-MacOS-X-app.html

hth,
Jim