I attempted to follow instruction set C for LilyPond & Terminal install on Mac
OS X Leopard. I've run into problems.
"Download the latest stable release (2.12.2-1) of LilyPond and put LilyPond.app
in your Applications folder."
Check.
"Download this shell script and start it using Terminal."
I right-clicked and Saved Link As... lilypondshscript to my Desktop without
appending any file extension. I wasn't having any success "starting it using
Terminal" until, eventually, I found instructions online for the syntax for
running a non-executable sh script.
Upon doing so, a "Drop your LilyPond source file here and press Enter"
instruction line appeared.
I assume that the instructions online mean this same file when it says: "Drop
your .ly file into the Terminal window and follow the instructions."
There are no instructions online regarding the location of this .ly source file.
I right-clicked and selected Show Package Contents on the LilyPond icon in my
Applications folder. After poking around through it and trying different things,
I eventually came across an .ly file.
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.ly
I dragged this file to the terminal window (its path appeared) and hit enter.
Here is my Terminal printout:
Macintosh:~ kjell$ sh /Users/kjell/Desktop/lilypondshscript
****************************************************************
Drop your LilyPond source file here and press Enter
****************************************************************
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.ly GNU LilyPond 2.12.2
Changing working directory to: `/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources'
Processing
`/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.ps'...
Converting to `./Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.pdf'...
The file
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources//Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.midi
does not exist.
****************************************************************
Continue to work. When finished, save your document and choose :
****************************************************************
Refresh: 1
Quit: 2
Very encouragingly, a pdf file with "A scale in LilyPond" header and picture of
an ascending c scale popped up. But then nothing else.
Once I realized I could click on the notes, I tried that. A new window appeared
with the following content:
%{
Welcome to LilyPond
===================
Congratulations, LilyPond has been installed successfully.
Now to take it for the first test run.
1. Save this file
2. Select
Compile > Typeset file
from the menu.
The file is processed, and
3. The PDF viewer will pop up. Click one of the noteheads.
%}
\header{
title = "A scale in LilyPond"
}
\relative {
c d e f g a b c
}
\version "2.12.2" % necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond versions.
But there appears to be no menu, drop down or otherwise, in LilyPond and thus no
way to save, compile, or do much of anything, besides type pointlessly in a
blank window (Furthermore, the only way to stop LilyPond from appearing as an
active program is to Force Quit it).
I closed the Welcome to LilyPond window and decided to see if double-clicking
the LilyPond icon could accomplish anything new. A blank, Untitled window
appeared that I was able to type in and save(!), but again, no way to compile it
and no menu of anything to access.
So what's going on? Please assist.
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