Re: 64-bit MacBook Air M2 problems

[Ian West]

Thanks gentlemen. You have been most helpful.
I am motoring with the 2.22.0 manual; so far everything is working. When it 
does not, I shall search out the 2.20 as you suggest.
I started to load Frescobaldi, and indeed downloaded 
MacPorts-2.7.2-12-Monterey.pkg. But could not face it. I have seen command line 
used, once, but would have to look up how to use it. Too much I fear.
Anyway, there is something very satisfying about the ‘longhand’ approach to 
writing music. I had one of the first copies of Sibelius sold (running on an 
Archimedes computer), but threw it and the Archimedes out and refused to buy 
another as the company would not credit me the £500 I had already spent. Made 
do with ABC,  Noteworthy and suchlike till I found Lilypond. They say it is not 
the arrival but the travelling, and I think it may apply here; but you know you 
are travelling when you get a score at the end. Compare a wordprocessor and 
setting type into a tray.
Viva Lilypond!
Best wishes, Ian West

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> On 16 Aug 2022, at 21:41, Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
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>> Le 16 août 2022 à 22:16, Ian West <ian42west@gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> 
>> I reset my laptop to abolish 'smart quotes' . Successful. But there must be 
>> other subtleties that are frustrating me.
> 
> 
> If you have issues, please tell what they are, or we cannot do anything to 
> help you :-)
> 
> Have you tried setting up Frescobaldi as I recommended?
> 
> 
>> Perhaps if I type the text with textedit, then copy and paste to feed it to 
>> Ly. Or just change the suffix from .txt to .ly?
>> 
>> It has proved impossible to find a manual for version 2.20.0. What is it 
>> that I am doing wrong?
> 
> 
> Take the 2.22 manual
> 
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/index.fr.html 
> <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/index.fr.html>
> 
> and replace "2.22" in the URL with "2.20", giving
> 
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/index.fr.html 
> <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/index.fr.html>
> 
> 
>> I am inclined to think that, if Google cannot find it, then it does not 
>> exist. I do not know which would be better: use 2.18.x or 2.22.x?
> 
> 
> In theory, 2.22.x, which is the latest stable version, but to my knowledge 
> you won’t find a macOS 64-bit download for it like the unofficial bundle of 
> LilyPond 2.20. You have to use either MacPorts or HomeBrew, which are package 
> managers for macOS. If you don’t know how to use the command line or what it 
> even is, this is not recommended. Instead, use 2.23, which while being a 
> development release series is quite stable currently, and has official macOS 
> 64-bit binaries.
> 
> Best,
> Jean
> 
> 
> 
>> Ian West
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>>> On 16 Aug 2022, at 11:08, Ian West <ian42west@gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:ian42west@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks Hans, and Jean.
>>> I shall try and learn up those tricks. 
>>> Ian
>>> 
>>> ==========
>>>> On 15 Aug 2022, at 17:01, Hans Åberg <haberg-1@telia.com 
>>>> <mailto:haberg-1@telia.com>> wrote:
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>>>> 
>>>>> On 15 Aug 2022, at 17:57, Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr 
>>>>> <mailto:jean@abou-samra.fr>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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”.
>>>> 
>>>> One can turn those off at System Preferences → Keyboard → Text → Use smart 
>>>> quotes and dashes. Those are reachable at least from the keyboard map I am 
>>>> using, so I decided to type them by hand at need.
>>>> 
>>>> Also, one can add custom text replacements, which I use for example for 
>>>> the arrows above.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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