Re: Suggestion for Mac OS 10.4

[Hans Aberg]

On 11 Aug 2005, at 12:40, Graham Percival wrote:

> Ah, I see.  The OSX application is a very new thing; previous  
> versions of lilypond
> were completely command-line driven (like latex).

Well, somewhat off-topic, there is OzTeX. :-)

> I still run lilypond from the
> command line all the time (using vim, my favorite text editor).  If  
> you're interested
> in that, take a look at the readme for configuration details.

My intent was to perhaps do that. Some other traditional UNIX  
installs on Mac OS X I have done, worked just fine.

> The OSX editor is a fairly basic text editor; when you "compile" a  
> score, it just
> saves the text file somewhere and calls lilypond on it.  There's  
> absolutely
> no disadvantage to using another text editor.

Have you considered a version where one is doing all work only from  
XCode? This would save the work on a Mac OS X interface. (I may check  
that out myself later. )

> In any case, this is a discussion for -user instead of bugs-.

Do suggestions belong to the help list? With Bison, it is the  
opposite; there they should go to the bugs list, as developers may  
not follow the help list so carefully.

  Hans Aberg