Great. Your next assignment is translating the manual to Russian :) Just
kidding... I'm looking forward to typesetting together.

M.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Anna Anufriyva <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi, guys!
>
>  I used  the pre-compiled binary 5 days ago and everything stopped on the
> step "Compile"
>
> After updating OS software pre-compiled binary works :-)
>
> Thanks
> Anna
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Mike Blackstock <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thx guys. Anna, could you try the pre-compiled binary at
>> http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html? Sorry for not making it clear that
>> you don't have to compile from scratch - pre-compiled binaries exist for all
>> major platforms. If you want to kill me, I deserve it.
>>
>> M.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:46 AM, James Lowe <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: 
>>> [email protected][lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=
>>> [email protected]] on behalf of Tim McNamara [[email protected]]
>>> Sent: 17 April 2011 14:57
>>> To: Mike Blackstock
>>> Cc: lilypond-user lilypond-user
>>> Subject: Re: MAC help
>>>
>>> On Apr 17, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Mike Blackstock wrote:
>>>
>>> > I'm helping a friend install on Mac OS X 10.6.6 but I know nothing
>>> about the Mac. I found this in the archive:
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-03/msg00246.html
>>> >
>>> > Is that the right approach for her?
>>>
>>> No.  That's not the right approach for almost any user, there is just no
>>> reason to compile Lilypond from scratch.  Download the precompiled binary
>>> and put it in the Applications folder.
>>>
>>> http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html
>>>
>>> Note that the 10.6.7 OS update from Apple may break Lilypond.  There have
>>> been several reports of problems after updating to 10.6.7 but I have no idea
>>> if the cause or a for-sure ix has been identified.
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Just to clarify that last statement, 10.6.7 didn't 'break' Lilypond
>>> inasmuch as it caused some fonts to not display properly - the symptom was
>>> apparently the score would 'sometimes' (at least I never had it at all) not
>>> show note heads and only show stems, which one could argue breaks LP in
>>> displaying PDFs, however...all those people that had this as far as I can
>>> tell on the thread, either ran Onyx (which you can download for free - if
>>> you don't know what it is use Google but I do recommend it generally for Mac
>>> as a useful tool -  and ran all the 'clean out/maintenance' scripts - which
>>> includes things like rebuilding the font cache and the like, then reboot and
>>> all was fine after that.
>>>
>>> I am not aware that this problem - which was reported on another website
>>> to do with OTF type fonts (I think) so was a general than specific to LP -
>>> was ever 'resolved' in terms of what the underlying problem is or even the
>>> case of those users that had the issue with LP still had the issue after
>>> this clean out.
>>>
>>> However, I myself had no such problems so don't want to put you or your
>>> friend off from using LP on a Mac. Indeed I've literally just finished a set
>>> of 10 parts for our Local Wind Band with no issues at all.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>
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