>> The link feature from the "Preview" app pointing back to the editor isn't working (it doesn't show an error message, just an >>audio alert sound instead of opening the editor at the correct point)
>This has in my experience never worked. The Preview.app apparently has no way to communicate back to the editor. It is an >exceedingly basic little application and philosophically Apple does not particularly like apps interacting and communicating with each >other. If Acrobat works, then I would suggest using that. Hi Tim, The feature has worked wonderfully for me for many years. It uses PDF links that point to lilypond as a "helper app." I would guess I'm probably not the only one using it despite frescobaldi being popular. The change happened when I got a new computer. The links work with Acrobat... and I'd happily use Acrobat, but as I mentioned before it is a "known issue" that it won't update the PDF file when you typeset repeatedly. The lilypond website says to use Preview.app. Thanks, Travis On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: > > > > On Jan 17, 2018, at 10:46 PM, Travis Weller <tra...@newmusic.coop> > wrote: > > > I'm using the default editor which is included in the MacOS build of > lilypond. I'm not using Frescobaldi. > > > > And yes, I've checked that I'm using preview mode. The links are there. > I can see them when I mouse over, and they work in Acrobat. I've looked > through all the options I can find in the Preview app and haven't seen > anything that might be blocking the links. I'd use Acrobat if the PDF would > update properly, but there is a disclaimer in the documentation that says > only the Mac preview app will auto-update after you typeset the file. > > <snip> > > > On 18 January 2018 at 10:16, Travis Weller <tra...@newmusic.coop> wrote: > > > > The link feature from the "Preview" app pointing back to the editor > isn't working (it doesn't show an error message, just an audio alert sound > instead of opening the editor at the correct point) > > This has in my experience never worked. The Preview.app apparently has no > way to communicate back to the editor. It is an exceedingly basic little > application and philosophically Apple does not particularly like apps > interacting and communicating with each other. If Acrobat works, then I > would suggest using that. > > Personally I switched to Frescobaldi several years ago and would never go > back to dealing with the default Lilypond editor or Preview.app for > engraving music. With Frescobaldi my time spent putting charts together is > easily cut in half. The somewhat crude screen display is of no concern to > me, only the printed output is. That is the domain of Lilypond and is no > different with Frescobaldi or another editor. > > If you don't want to use Frescobaldi, would wonder if you would have > better luck using an XWindow setup and more Unix tools, as those are > designed to communicate with each other (xpdf, etc.). I’ve never tried > that myself. Installing Lilypond via Homebrew or similar would result in > that kind of system. > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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