Hi,I just worked on Mac, knows then linux, windows, cygwin, and Mac. All with lilypond and other music software. I would just first thow away the Mac, the less ergonomical. OT but experienced. Francois
2011/4/22, Mike Blackstock <[email protected]>: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lilypond-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
