Re: Handel's Messiah -- question about finding which ly file runs the whole shebang

[Hans Aberg]

On 16 Jan 2012, at 17:53, address@hidden wrote:

>> Well, the OS X version I have of lilypond I have is version 2.14.2-1.  I 
>> used to use lilypond on my debian box, so I myself am more accustomed to the 
>> CL-based interface.  I would hope there was some way of running it that way 
>> on OS X (?).  I think I may have converted it to 2.14.2 just now, but I'd 
>> have to re-download the original and see if there was a version statement in 
>> the main.ly file.
>> 
> 
> The website has great instructions about this for Mac OS X:
> 
> http://lilypond.org/macos-x.html
> 
> (the section "Running on the command line").

This section might add that a simple way to create this file from the command 
line is to enter (^D means <control>D):

cat > lilypond
exec /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond "$@"
^D

Quite useful on OS X is to open files using
  open -a <application> <files>

Hans