Hi Jean Abou Samra,
Yes! I have now followed the instructions for running LilyPond with
Frescobaldi. But I do not like it.
Indeed, I will not use it. The coding (on the left) is far too small
for my eyes. (I was in the habit of using font-size 18 when typing in the
code.) And I have not found a way to enlarge it. (The music I can enlarge, but
is in any case readable.)
In August 2022, trying to implement Lilypond 2.20.0 build
20..311175017-darwin-64, I did load MacPorts-2.7.2-12-Monterey.pkg . But I do
not remember if I used it, nor if it worked. I now have Ventura, and the
MacPorts seems not to work. Writing in terminal "sudo port install lilypond
Copy" produced the error "sudo: port: command not found". (I do not know
anything about running in Terminal, but occasionally do it and it occasionally
works. )
So, I shall try to operate 2.24.2 without Frescobaldi. But that may not
be possible, or easy. Then I shall try to find an earlier (simpler) version of
Lilypond that still works on my 64-bit machine; perhaps 2.22.z. or back to
2.20.0.
If all else fails I can go back to my old 2009 MacBook 5,2 with OS X
10.5.8 and run LilyPond 2.18.2. It does everything I want, and is legible using
18pt font size.
But if you have a suggestion, I am willing to try it.
Yours, Ian
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Ian West
9 Thenford Road, Middleton Cheney,
BANBURY, OX17 2NB,
Tel: 01295 713 889; (Mobile: 07474 572 588)
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> On 1 Sep 2023, at 17:43, Jean Abou Samra <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Le vendredi 01 septembre 2023 à 17:38 +0100, Ian West a écrit :
>> I have used Lilypond very happily for many years on Apple laptops (2.12.3,
>> 2.18.2).
>> My latest computer is a MacBook Air running OS Ventura 13.4.1 with M2. I
>> understood I needed a 64 bit version of Lilypond, downloaded 2.20.0 August
>> 2022, and ran it successfully for 12 months till 1st August 2023. It then
>> stopped working and said I had hit a bug.
>> I discarded the installation and re-clicked the *.tar , placed the file in
>> applications. But again there was a bug.
>> I downloaded 2.24.1 but find it is too complicated. There is no single file
>> that I can double-click to run.
>> I did manage to put a previously written amaryllis.ly <http://amaryllis.ly/>
>> file into a file with all the bin files and did get a pdf but this is no
>> good.
>>
>> I want my Lilypond.exe back. Do I have to use my old 2010 MacBook, with its
>> shot battery and no bluetooth?
>
> Have you followed the setup tutorial to get LilyPond running with Frescobaldi?
>
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/learning/graphical-setup-under-macos.html
