Re: Which LilyPond for Mac G3 (Pismo) running OS 10.4.7

[Paul Scott]

Valentin Villenave wrote:
> 2007/1/25, Paul Scott <address@hidden>:
> > Can someone point me to documention as to which version of Lily I should
> > on a Mac G3 (Pismo) running OS 10.4.7?  The darwin choices here:
> > http://lilypond.org/vc/gub.darcs/READ-ME don't necessarily match what I
> > have.  From the Download page "MacOS X (G3, G4, G5 Macs) 10.3 and newer"
> > seems to be the right choice.  I unpacked (in the wrong place at first)
> > and I could execute it from there but it was going to run forever.  I
> > moved it to /Applications and now I can start Lily but File/Open acts
> > like it is going to open a file but does not do anything.  I also didn't
> > find any install command.
>
> AFAIK, there isn't any. You're doing fine : just download
> http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/darwin-ppc/lilypond-2.11.13-1.darwin-ppc.tar.bz2 
>
> then unpack it (on the Desktop for instance), and drag'n drop it in
> /Applications
>
> It's a .app pacakge, so theoritically you can launch it like any other
> application. You should see a TextEdit-like window with the message
> "Welcome to LilyPond". If you don't, then you're obviously missing
> something.
That all worked.  Soon I'll see if Han-Wen's answer is the rest of the 
story.
> > Does Mac no longer use carriage for end of line since OSX.  That seem to
> > be the case from the command line.
>
> I don't really understand what you're talking about (but as a matter
> of fact, I've never been using OS 8 or OS 9). Maybe somebody else will
> be able to answer this question ?
>
> Anyway, as far as I know, there's nothing that could prevent you from
> using LilyPond on a G3 PPC, especially with a modern OS like 10.4.7.
Before this change .ly files probably had to be fixed when written on 
one of the three different OS's and then run with Lily on a Mac.
> > I have had limited experience with a Mac so I could use any other
> > pointers to relevant documentation.
>
> Well, it seems parts of the LilyPond.app package are not available
> from the GUI ; you'll have to use the Terminal.app to invoke it
> through the command line.
No problem.  That's what I do in Linux.
> You can look, for instance, at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-01/msg00528.html
I do know about Terminal.
> And do not forget, of course :
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Notes-for-the-MacOS-X-app 
That will help.

Thanks,

Paul