Re: Trouble with lilypond-book on Mac OS X

[Siska Ádám]

Graham Percival wrote:
> Siska Ádám wrote:
> > Yes, since that I also created the suggested files, and I added them 
> > to a .profile file in the /Users/admin folder (my home folder),
>
> Your user name is admin?  That's unusual.

Well, this is my first Mac (and I switched from Windows not so many time 
ago), with a pre-installed OS, and since I'm the only one using it, I 
didn't thought on changing the predefined user name.

> > but still doesn't work. Is here anybody in the list that owes a Mac 
> > and runned these commands successfully?
>
> Yes, me.
>
> > The strange is, that the application works fine.
>
> That's not strange at all, since the GUI has nothing to do with the 
> command-line stuff.
>
> If you're not familiar with the command-line, please see some generic 
> information about using the terminal on OSX.  If you _are_ familiar 
> with the command-line, please investigate using the normal means: is 
> your PATH set correctly, are the files executable, etc.

Yes, I'm quite unfamiliar with command-line tools, and I never really 
needed any. For developing, you can use XCode or Eclipse or a lot of 
other tools, for TeX you can use texmaker or TeXShop quite well, for 
Lilypond you have the nice Lilypond.app (although it would be great if 
someone added a numerical indicator for the current cursor position 
because it's quite heavy to debug the source with an editor that doesn't 
show you where the cursor actually is), there are even good and powerful 
editors for CSound as well, etc. But I tried to follow the steps in the 
manual, I created a folder in the /Applications/Lilypond folder (that's 
where I have the Lilypond.app) with the file 'lilypond-book' containing 
the line 'exec 
/Applications/Lilypond/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond-book 
"$@"', as indicated in the manual, I runned the 'chmod u+x 
lilypond-book' command from the recently created bin folder, and I've 
put a .profile file with the content 'export 
PATH=$PATH:/Applications/Lilypond/Lilypond.app/Contents/Resources/bin' 
in my /Users/admin folder, but nothing changed, I get the same error log.

Might you have any idea about what's going on on my machine, taking in 
consideration these things?

Thank you for your help,
Adam


> Cheers,
> - Graham