Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

[Tim McNamara]

On May 13, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Davide Liessi <address@hidden> wrote:

> @Marnen: can you confirm that `brew install frescobaldi` asks the user
> to manually install XQuartz and MacTeX? Maybe we should clarify this
> in [2].
> 
> I don't think it asks for XQuartz.  Rather, installing Lilypond displays the 
> following message:
> 
> lilypond: A LaTeX distribution is required to install.

Out of curiosity, why is a LaTeX distribution required?  Lilypond doesn’t use 
LaTeX.