On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Jazzed <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm new to Lilypond (first post here!) and I had the same problem upon > trying to install on Snow Leopard. > > On first compile, Lilypond has to analyse system fonts or something. I took > a look at the process and it seemed to be getting stuck on LastResort.ttf, > which is a system font you can't remove. I never figured out why, but I > managed to get it working anyway by installing 2.12.2-1. I compiled a file > with 2.12, which worked. Note that this version of the graphical application > does not open properly on Snow Leopard, but the actual compiler works fine, > so you can compile from a Terminal shell or with something like TeXShop. > > I then replaced Lilypond.app (2.12.2-1) with the one from 2.13.3. It didn't > seem to need to analyse fonts again (which is where it was getting stuck), > so now it works!
Hi, Thanks for your report! It's great to know that 2.12.2 (from the terminal) works on Snow Leopard. That really narrows down the problem. I suspect something may have broken in GUB... Specifically, does 2.13.3 halt at the "Building font database" step? Thanks, Patrick _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
