Running Frescobaldi on Mac OS 15.5 - no problems. In Frescobaldi under Preferences I choose Lilypond 2.25.27 and it installs flawlessly.
Lilypond is then located here: /Users/[USER]/Library/Application Support/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/lilypond-binaries /Mats-Olof > 21 juli 2025 kl. 20:56 skrev Robert Schmaus via LilyPond user discussion > <[email protected]>: > > Dear Lilypond community, > > I have a strange question (if one could call it a question at all). > I've been using Lilypond in the past quite intensively to write Jazz Music - > mainly lead sheets and bigband scores. Also (for those who remember) I took > part in Urs Liska's "Das Trunkne Lied" Project. Now I haven't used Lilypond > in years. > > I'm a Mac user, and I always found it hard to upgrade Lilypond to a new > version. As a rule I would stick to an old version as long as I possibly > could because upgrading it was ... not exactly straightforward. I know, that > might partly have been the case, because I used the program in a wrong way, I > don't know. But it wasn't just getting the new version, there was always the > issue of copying the font files for the jazz font somewhere to the right > folders and stuff like that. > > As for editors, I used Frescobaldi, and that too doesn't run well on a mac. > My current version is 3.1.3, and at least that one is still opening. I don't > really dare trying to install a new one. Again, it always was a lot trying to > find out what extra programs (ghostview? poppler? python?) in which version > I'd have to install until I finally got it running. > > I know that some folks on this list might find this strange, but in > particular as someone who creates software as a profession, I actually have > no interest in having to administer and tinker with my computer at home too. > I would simply like to concentrate on the music. And I love to use LaTeX, so > Lilypond is just perfect for me :-) But because my old Lilypond version > stopped working after a system upgrade, I put upgrading off ... for some > years now. Simply stopped using lilypond, because I couldn't face doing that > upgrade again. > > So I guess my questions are this: Would I be better off, using Lilypond and > Frescobaldi on a Windows machine? My hope is: For Windows, you get some .exe > files that already contain everything. No need to check what python or > whatever needs to be installed. Also, in particular in case of Frescobaldi, > sometimes the available Windows versions were of higher version number that > the available Mac version. > > BTW, I'm using MacOS 15.5 on an iMac. > > Best, > Robert > > >
