Re: [Denemo-devel] First Time Denemo [Mac] User - "LilyPond count not typeset this score"

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2017-05-06 at 17:09 +0000, Tony Ventura wrote:
> I've made slight progress. After "Showing package contents", and
> retrieving the path via the Mac's right-click + Option [to get the
> pathname] I was able to change the the path
> to /Users/anthonyventura/Desktop/Denemo.app/Contents/MacOS/LilyPond.app

I doubt if that is the right thing to point Denemo's LilyPond path to -
I would expect the correct file is named "lilypond", that is all lower
case and no extension - you may find it in a directory
labelled   .../usr/bin 
There will be others on the list that will know more about this than I,

Richard

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> Now the error message went away, but I can't get the Preview window to
> preview the LilyPond output. Think I need to start completely over
> again. I'll respond back when I've made some progress.
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> Kind regards,
> Tony Ventura
> www.tonyventura.com
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> On Friday, May 5, 2017 8:51 AM, Richard Shann
> <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 11:42 +0000, Tony Ventura wrote:
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> > I did download LilyPond and installed, however, that didn't seem to
> > help.
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> If this was the problem (I don't know if your denemo includes its own
> copy of LilyPond or not) then you may also need to set the path to
> LilyPond in the preferences:
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> Edit->Change Preferences->Externals
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> give the full path to the LilyPond executable.
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> HTH
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> Richard
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