Re: MAC help

[Music Teacher]

Hi,I just worked on Mac, knows then linux, windows, cygwin, and Mac.
All with lilypond and other music software. I would just first thow
away the Mac, the less ergonomical. OT but experienced.
Francois

2011/4/22, Mike Blackstock <address@hidden>:
> Great. Your next assignment is translating the manual to Russian :) Just
> kidding... I'm looking forward to typesetting together.
>
> M.
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Anna Anufriyva
> <address@hidden>wrote:
>
>> Hi, guys!
>>
>>  I used  the pre-compiled binary 5 days ago and everything stopped on the
>> step "Compile"
>>
>> After updating OS software pre-compiled binary works :-)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Anna
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Mike Blackstock <
>> address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Thx guys. Anna, could you try the pre-compiled binary at
>>> http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html? Sorry for not making it clear that
>>> you don't have to compile from scratch - pre-compiled binaries exist for
>>> all
>>> major platforms. If you want to kill me, I deserve it.
>>>
>>> M.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:46 AM, James Lowe
>>> <address@hidden>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From:
>>>> address@hidden
>>>> address@hidden on behalf of Tim McNamara address@hidden
>>>> Sent: 17 April 2011 14:57
>>>> To: Mike Blackstock
>>>> Cc: lilypond-user lilypond-user
>>>> Subject: Re: MAC help
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 17, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Mike Blackstock wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > I'm helping a friend install on Mac OS X 10.6.6 but I know nothing
>>>> about the Mac. I found this in the archive:
>>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-03/msg00246.html
>>>> >
>>>> > Is that the right approach for her?
>>>>
>>>> No.  That's not the right approach for almost any user, there is just no
>>>> reason to compile Lilypond from scratch.  Download the precompiled
>>>> binary
>>>> and put it in the Applications folder.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html
>>>>
>>>> Note that the 10.6.7 OS update from Apple may break Lilypond.  There
>>>> have
>>>> been several reports of problems after updating to 10.6.7 but I have no
>>>> idea
>>>> if the cause or a for-sure ix has been identified.
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Just to clarify that last statement, 10.6.7 didn't 'break' Lilypond
>>>> inasmuch as it caused some fonts to not display properly - the symptom
>>>> was
>>>> apparently the score would 'sometimes' (at least I never had it at all)
>>>> not
>>>> show note heads and only show stems, which one could argue breaks LP in
>>>> displaying PDFs, however...all those people that had this as far as I
>>>> can
>>>> tell on the thread, either ran Onyx (which you can download for free -
>>>> if
>>>> you don't know what it is use Google but I do recommend it generally for
>>>> Mac
>>>> as a useful tool -  and ran all the 'clean out/maintenance' scripts -
>>>> which
>>>> includes things like rebuilding the font cache and the like, then reboot
>>>> and
>>>> all was fine after that.
>>>>
>>>> I am not aware that this problem - which was reported on another website
>>>> to do with OTF type fonts (I think) so was a general than specific to LP
>>>> -
>>>> was ever 'resolved' in terms of what the underlying problem is or even
>>>> the
>>>> case of those users that had the issue with LP still had the issue after
>>>> this clean out.
>>>>
>>>> However, I myself had no such problems so don't want to put you or your
>>>> friend off from using LP on a Mac. Indeed I've literally just finished a
>>>> set
>>>> of 10 parts for our Local Wind Band with no issues at all.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>>
>>>> James
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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