Re: LilyPondTool users on Mac?

[Carl Sorensen]

On 9/10/10 9:45 AM, "Seth Williamson" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I want to thank everybody who has helped thus far in the saga of my getting
> the LilyPond/JEdit/LilyPondTool combo up and running.
> 
> Thanks to several people's suggestions, I think I got the permissions problem
> fixed.  I have no idea how I could have had permissions trouble in the first
> place, since I have always installed things exclusively as a user, but
> whatever.
> 
> I have now gotten as far as getting the combination set-up to display the
> little scale that is included as a test file for beginners in LilyPond.  It's
> titled simply "A scale in LilyPond" and it displays fine in the PDF displayer
> that I have docked to the right of the JEdit workspace.
> 
> HOWEVER, the latest problem is that I can't seem to get the PDF displayer to
> STOP showing me this scale, even when I attempt to put in new files to be
> compiled.

> 
> For example, a buddy suggested that I use the LilyPondTool Score Wizard to
> make another four-note scale.  FYI, I append the output it created below.  But
> I can't get it to display -- even though I have the new file in JEdit, I still
> see the original scale to the right.
> 
> Here's what I put in with the Wizard:
> 
> 
> % Created on Fri Sep 10 11:36:20 EDT 2010
> \version "2.12.3"
> 
> \header {
> title = "Seth's Test Score" 
>  subtitle = "(suggested by Bob)" 
>   composer = "Seth Williamson" 
> 
> }
> 
> 
> 
> staffTrumpetInC = \new Staff {
> \time 4/4
> \set Staff.instrumentName = "Trumpet in C"
> \set Staff.midiInstrument = "trumpet"
> \transposition bes,
> \key c \major
> \clef treble
> \relative c' { 
> a b c d 
> 
> \bar "|."
> }
> 
> }
> 
> 
> \score {
> <<
> \staffTrumpetInC
>>> 
> \midi {
> }
> 
>   \layout {
>   }
> }
> 
> \paper {
> }
> 
> 
> 
> Here is what I think are the error codes the above code generated.  Anybody
> have any ideas what went wrong?
> 
> This is a console shell for running LilyPond and related commands. Enter %help
> to see the available special commands.
>> %lilypond %args "/Users/hazelmotes/Downloads/Seth's Test Score.ly"
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond: line 1: fg: no job
> control
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond: line 2: version:
> command not found
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond: line 4: header:
> command not found
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond: line 5: title:
> command not found
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond: line 6: subtitle:
> command not found
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond: line 7: composer:
> command not found
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond: line 9: syntax
> error near unexpected token `}'
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond: line 9: `}'
> Processing time: 0 seconds
>>  
I think the problem is spaces and the single quote in your filename.

Change the name of your file to seth_test_score.ly, and I predict it will
work fine.

HTH,

Carl


> 
> 
> Seth Williamson
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Bernardo Barros <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> The only problem I got was to get unicode support from jEdit.
>> Also Midi support did not work well with LilyPondTools AT ALL
>> The other regular things went well.
>