Philippe de Rochambeau <phi...@free.fr> writes: > Hello, > > could someone please explain how to run Lilypond from Fraise?
I haven't used Fraise. I did use Smultron a little bit a long time ago. There may be an elegant way, eliminating the use of the terminal emulator and making steps 2 through 4 of my description obsolete; there is definitely a non-elegant way that will always work with any text editor, and here it is: 1. Type your Lilypond file in Fraise, or any text editor that saves as plain text. Make sure it is saved with .ly at the end of the name, such as MyNewPiece.ly - also make sure that there are no spaces in the name of your piece, no spaces in the name of the folder it's in, and no spaces in any of the names of any of the folders that contain that folder. If you want the visual effect of spaces, you can always use underscore characters like My_New_Piece.ly . 2. Open Terminal (it's in the Utilities folder, inside of Applications). In your terminal window, type the following and press Enter afterwards: cd ~/Documents/LilypondScores (that is, type "cd", then a space, and then the name of whatever folder you have put your piece in - your pieces can go anywhere you like, as long as there are no spaces in any folder names and as long as you can remember what folder they're in. The special character "~" is used in terminal commands as an abbreviation for "My own home folder", and folders always have a slash between their names.) 3. Just to make sure you're in the right folder, type the following and press Enter afterwards: ls (This will list everything in the folder - all that matters is that the name of your piece is one of the things in the list) 4. Type the following (using the real name of your piece, obviously) and press Enter afterwards: lilypond MyNewPiece.ly (This command will cause the terminal to display Lilypond's messages, along with any errors that occur. If errors occur, it's either because Lilypond isn't installed correctly or because there was a typing mistake in your piece.) 5. Assuming it worked, there will now be MyNewPiece.pdf in the same folder with MyNewPiece.ly. Go and open that to see the results. ___________________________________ The elegant method of using Fraise would be to eliminate my steps 2 through 4, by adding a Lilypond command into Fraise itself so that you don't need to use Terminal. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user