Re: lilypond and mac under leopard -- the simple solution!

[Simon Bailey]

hi ivo,

On Feb 29, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Ivo Bouwmans wrote:
> There is a very simple solution, which can be found on:
>   http://ivo.bouwmans.name/lilypondleopard/
<...SNIP...>
> I asked for a link on the Lilypond download page, just to avoid  
> problems like Claude is experiencing, and I don't know why no link  
> has been made yet... Does the development team have any objections  
> to my LilypondScript? Please let me know!


i know this isn't very nice of me, but i'm going to disagree with  
"simple" here. here are the reasons:

step 2:
forcing me to use ~/Documents/LilypondFiles for ALL my lilypond files  
is a no-go. any larger project i work on has multiple lilypond files  
and gets its own directory in

/Volumes/NFS/my/home/dir/sheetmusic


step 4:
open the script and edit it by hand in scripteditor? for every single  
different lilypond file i ever want to compile? no thank you.

btw, in leopard, preview automagically updates the view if the file  
changes, so you don't really need to close preview...

otoh, in TeXShop (or JEdit, or whichever other editor you use which  
integrates nicely with lilypond), you can save the files whereever you  
want and compiling them is as simple as pressing a button or a key  
combination.

so, both approaches require some fancy footwork to get you started,  
but i feel that using texshop or jedit is the far more intuitive.

please don't misunderstand me, i think your approach an interesting  
one, but the usability is a bit lacking.

regards,
sb