When I'm on a Mac I use the Smultron editor, which has pretty nice
syntax highlighting and has a very nice interface. It's free
also. I got JEdit to work but I think it looks terrible both on
Linux and Mac. The fonts look all messed up probably because of the
Java environment.
Anyway I wrote a script for use on my Linux boxes and have a
modified version for Macs. It runs lilypond on a given file and
opens the pdf in Preview (easy enough to change it to Acrobat
Reader if you like). I'll attach the script in case anyone would
like to have it. Create a /bin directory in your home directory
and make sure it's included in your shell path. Once it's there
and the file is executable, you simply type "lily foobar.ly" and it
runs lilypond on foobar.ly then opens foobar.pdf in Preview. If you
comment out the Preview line and uncomment the Acrobat Reader line
then you can use Acrobat Reader for the previewing.
Jon
James E. Bailey wrote:
True, but textedit doesn't have syntax hilighting or bracket
matching. Speaking of which, I've been meaning to send my syntax
hilighting for lilypond to this list for ages, but haven't done
so. It isn't great, nor is perfect, but it hilights and helps me
spotting errors. And, the only time I've ever attempted anything
with regex was to do this, so I'm sure there are probably better
ways of expressing what's here (if anyone sees a better way, let
me know). For a pretty basic text editor, it has tons of features
that I learn more about as I use it.
You can use textedit to edit your lilypond files on OSX.
Carl
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