Difficulties with testing installation on a Mac

[Paul Morris]

Greetings, 
I actually got it installed and tested on my mac, but with two stumbling blocks along the way...  (related to the documentation / instructions)  

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1. It wasn't clear where to save the "test.ly" file.  (when following directions at:  http://lilypond.org/web/download/getting-started.html)  After a few tries I found that it is the user directory, ie: /hard-drive/users/username/


2. The following text in the test.ly file:


> <x-tad-smaller>        {
> c4( c)
> }
> </x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller>
</x-tad-smaller> lead to the following error: 

> lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.5
> Running lilypond-bin...
> Now processing `test.ly'
> Parsing...
>
> /Users/paul/test.ly:1:1: error: parse error:
> {
>
>
>
> /Users/paul/test.ly:2:3: warning: Braces don't match:
> c4(
> c)
> Failed files: test.ly 
>
>
> lilypond: error: LilyPond failed on input file test (exit status 1)
> lilypond: warning: Running LilyPond failed. Rerun with --verbose for a trace.


So I eventually found and tried this text:

> % This file has ledger lines and a slur
>
> \score { \notes { c4-(  c4-) } }

from this page for Windows users: http://lilypond.org/web/download/windows.html

and that worked...


So, just thought I'd report these two hurdles so they might be smoothed out for other mac users in the future.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Paul