Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

[Hans Aberg]

On 12 Dec 2012, at 16:32, David Kastrup 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?

This directory contains other stuff that might be conflicting with other same 
named executable. For example, ps2pdf and such comes with the TeXLive 
installation.

Hans