Re: GUI

2009-12-18 Thread Robert Ley
Thanks. I had found most of that. What I had meant is more along the lines of what Tim McNamara said: IMHO here is where we run into the issue of what LilyPond *is.* It's a backend with no face, basically. This is something that most Windows and Mac users will find hard to grasp initially,

Re: No Work! 10.5.8 vs. 10.4.11

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Ley
So i do not think the problem is with you at all. Thanks. I was beginning to wonder... Indeed you are able to get this working on an external disk - which makes no real sense to me, only because if it works on an external disk it should work on an internal disk, the operating system is

Re: Lilypond not working on internal disk on Mac

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Ley
The hard disc format is determined by the type of processor you have in the machine: GUID format for Intel chips, MacOS Extended for PPC chips. I have a G4 [PPC] chip, so both Ext. and Int. are formatted with MacOS Extended. The EXTERNAL has a different system, 10.4.11, under which LilyPond

Re: Lilypond not working on internal disk on Mac

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Ley
Yup. I don't know enough about using a Terminal program or anything else to get LilyPond to run without using the GUI. I need the GUI and that's what doesn't work. RDL ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

No Work!

2009-12-13 Thread Robert Ley
Re: Version 2.12.2-1 Downloaded both documentation and program. Downloaded fine. Dragged ap to applications folder. Put documentation folder there too. Double-clicked the application and I get a text file that says: save this file Select 'compiletypeset file' from the menu-- NOTHING comes up when