Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

[Paul Morris]

On Dec 12, 2012, at 10:32 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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?

I have no idea, as I am pretty unfamiliar with using the command-line.  I tried 
to follow those instructions recently (to try the png output) but was not able 
to get it to run.  There did seem to be more steps than I would have thought.  
I'm hoping to get together with a friend of mine who is experienced with unix 
on the mac to help me get it working.

-Paul