RE: need help

[Andrew Bernard]

Hello Peter,

 

Welcome to lilypond. It’s a great tool. With all software, there’s a learning curve. Don’t be put off. The list members will generally help you out – it’s a very good community online.

 

Lilypond is essentially a command line application. There are various front ends. Many people are very happy with Frescobaldi, which I use with great success. Frescobaldi is a separate program to lilypond.

 

I am also a Mac user. Your OS versions are not only old, but no longer even supported by Apple. Is there any practical reason preventing you from upgrading? Is you hardware also too old to upgrade? You would certainly benefit from the new mac OS if not in terms of features but in terms of current support.

 

Lilypond, coming from a UNIX heritage, works very well  indeed in a Linux environment. There is a lot to be said for running Linux in a virtual machine with VirtualBox on the mac and running lilypond in a Linux VM.

 

Andrew

 

 

From: lilypond-user [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Peter Lavetti
Sent: Saturday, 5 November 2016 11:55 AM
To: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: need help

 

Hi,

 

I know very little about html codes and computer text editing, but I like the look of LilyPond scores.

 

1. What application do you recommend - Frescobaldi or Denemo ?

(at http://lilypond.org/easier-editing.html)

 

2. What version do you recommend I download for MAC OS 10.6.8 and 10.4.6 ?

 

Thanks for the help,

 

PL