Re: OSX 10.5 compatibility

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/2/21, Frank Kupke <address@hidden>:

Hi Frank,

> Apparently Lilipond is not working on my Intel iMac running OS X 10.5.2.

No it is not. This is a known bug that affects the Mac Intel
application; you can see a huge discussion about it on our bug
tracker: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=504

>  It starts up but only a blank menu bar comes up with the exception of the
>  application name itself.
>  There is no functionality and no user interface.

Yes. We haven't managed to get the interface to work yet.

>  Anything I can do?

The good news: yes you can.
The bad news: it will be much less user-friendly (i.e. no interface,
you will have to write your files using a separate editor -- I
recommand Smultron -- and then compile them using the command-line,
for instance with Terminal).

Download the PPC version on lilypond.org, and then follow the
instructions provided on
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/MacOS-X-on-the-command_002dline

It is totally achievable, but you'll need to be more patient :)

Cheers,
Valentin