Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

[David Kastrup]

Paul Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> On Dec 12, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Parham FH <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I am curious if it is possible to run lilypond from the Mac OS X 
>> (my case: 10.6.8) terminal
>
> Instructions are here:
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/web/macos-x
>
> "Running on the command-line"

Stupid question: why would one create executable shims to something like
DIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/* in ~/bin and then add ~/bin to
one's PATH when one can just add
DIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ instead?  Is DIR expected to
contain stuff that is bad for PATH?

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David Kastrup