Re: Using rumor with Docker container on MacOS

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno lun 28 ott 2019 alle 01:34, Carl Sorensen 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> I have a friend who has seen my lilypond work and would like to get 
> involved with lilypond.
>
> He would like to use a MIDI keyboard, rather than the keyboard, to be 
> able to input music.
>
> Frescobaldi with rumor appears to meet his needs, except for the fact 
> that rumor is only supported on Linux systems, and he uses MacOS

Frescobaldi 3 (without Rumor) also supports MIDI input.


> I have seen no MacPorts or Homebrew solutions for using rumor.  So I 
> was hoping to set up rumor to use with one of the Docker containers 
> for LilyDev (preferably the lilypond container, rather than the 
> lilydev container).
>
> I have never used Docker before, but I was able to get it set up with 
> a few false starts (thanks, Federico!).
>
> Could somebody (maybe Federico) give me some pointers on how I might 
> add rumor to a Docker container?  Or maybe set up a new Docker 
> container?  Since rumor doesn't add the music into Lilypond files, as 
> I understand it, but instead creates music to be pasted into a 
> lilypond source file, I think I could use rumor in a Docker 
> container, and paste the results of a rumor run into a Frescobaldi 
> window.

You should thank Dan Eble for all the work on the Docker container.
I think you can just add the rumor package in the Dockerfile and build 
the image.