On May 14, 2014, at 12:56 PM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Tim McNamara <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>>> On May 13, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Davide Liessi <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> @Marnen: can you confirm that `brew install frescobaldi` asks the user
>>> to manually install XQuartz and MacTeX? Maybe we should clarify this
>>> in [2].
>>> 
>>> I don't think it asks for XQuartz.  Rather, installing Lilypond
>>> displays the following message:
>>> 
>>> lilypond: A LaTeX distribution is required to install.
>> 
>> Out of curiosity, why is a LaTeX distribution required?  Lilypond
>> doesn’t use LaTeX.
> 
> lilypond-book can produce LaTeX input which is at least required for
> compiling LilyPond's documentation.

Ah.  Thanks.
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