Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

[Ralf Mattes]

Am Freitag, 25. September 2015 17:03 CEST, Daniel Miller <address@hidden> 
schrieb:

> That's certainly a valid criticism, David, and my intention is certainly
> not to waste anyone's time. However, I think it's natural that as users
> (particularly very new users) search for information online, they will find
> increasingly specialized help forums and/or will fail to find answers in
> one place and will try another place instead. Not every case of
> multi-posting is a case of forum spamming, and indeed I do update and/or
> close discussions as answers become apparent elsewhere.

Hello Daniel,

in this case I wouldn't consider the double post a waste of time, given the
small intersection of Lilypond mailing list members an the Stack Overflow crow.
It might be a good idea to mention your other attempts to solve your problem in
the mail so we have a chance to see what has allready been mentioned.

Anyway, back to your problem (running abjad, was that your goal?):

 I hink the easiest route would be to edit abjads configuration file (see
  http://abjad.mbrsi.org/installation.html#configuring-abjad). You might want
to change the line

 lilypond_path = lilypond

to

 lilypond_path = /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond

That should o the trick (sorry, I'm a bit short on time to install abjad on a 
Mac
right now, so I  can't test it myself).

HTH Ralf Mattes







> Best,
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:53 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Daniel Miller <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > Thanks for your help Federico (and David).
> > >
> > > As to posting a question in multiple places, I don't see that as a
> > problem.
> > > Different online communities have different specialties and knowledge
> > > areas. As you can see, very few LilyPond users saw my post on
> > > stackoverflow... so I came here instead. At worst, redundancy increases
> > the
> > > chance that some other neophyte LilyPond user, struggling with the same
> > > issue, will find an answer to their question.
> >
> > No, at worst someone spends considerable time creating an answer for you
> > that you no longer need.  If you only value your own time, posting to
> > multiple places independently looks like a good deal.  However, once
> > someone figures out that he wasted his time answering you, he might be
> > less inclined to give your questions a thought in future.  So even from
> > a purely egoistical point of view this is sketchy.
> >
> > Now it sounds as if you did not get a useful answer on Stackoverflow.
> > So in case you eventually resolve your problem with the help of this
> > list, it would make sense to answer your own question on Stackoverflow
> > using the help/information you got here in order not to let the question
> > there remain without useful answer.
> >
> > --
> > David Kastrup
> >