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

[David Kastrup]

Tim McNamara <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

lilypond-book can produce LaTeX input which is at least required for
compiling LilyPond's documentation.

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David Kastrup