Re: 64-bit MacBook Air M2 problems

[Jean Abou Samra]

Hello Ian,


Le 15/08/2022 à 12:41, Ian West a écrit :
> Dear Jean,


As a point of curiosity, I am not sure why you address me specifically
(unless you know me somehow? I do not recall your name, either I do
not know you or I need to seriously worry about amnesia). The whole point
of asking a question on a mailing list is that everyone can answer :-)


> I have been using Lilypond for some 10 years; first 2.12.3, then 2.18.2.
> I just bought a new MacBook Air, which uses the new 64-bit M2 chip. I 
> understood I could not use the 2.18.2; that the 64-bit chip required 
> the “unofficial” version 2.20.0. So I loaded that, and it runs all the 
> tunes that I tried. But it is very difficult to write new music. It is 
> proving very hard to work out what some of the problems are.
> [1]. There is some new language to learn, new ways to do things. But 
> the manuals v2.22.0, and  v2.22.2 help and I am learning.
> [2]  There are some baffling problems. It seems that the single 
> apostrophe (used to raise the pitch by one octave) on the keyboard 
> does not work. But, if I copy-and-paste from the manual, I can get 
> round that problem.
> [3]  The header section is absurdly sensitive. I can paste in from the 
> manual:
> \header {
>    title = "SUITE I."
>    composer = "J. S. Bach."
> }
> and it works. But my piece is by Monteverdi. I can change the title to 
> “Take not my treasure”, but I cannot change Bach to Monteverdi. !!!



What text editor are you using to edit LilyPond code? Surely
that is a problem with the editor rather than the core LilyPond
program itself, especially if it works when you copy/paste instead
of entering with the keyboard.

Also, when you enter the apostrophe from the keyboard, is it really
a straight apostrophe  ->   '   <-  or could it be that macOS does
you the “favor” to replace it with a curly apostrophe ->    ’ <- ?
LilyPond expects straight apostrophes. If this is the problem, you need
to fix your macOS settings somewhere to prevent those “smart quotes”.

Best,
Jean