Re: Lyx 2.0 Beta 1, LilyPond OS X, MacTeX etc. - no lilypond integration

[Julien Rioux]

On 03/12/2010 12:22 PM, Henry Flurry wrote:
> My guess is that either:
>
> - LyX can't find where I put LilyPond, and I need to set some shell variables 
> or run a script or move the LilyPond app
>
> - I need a different installation of LilyPond that goes directly into the 
> bowels of Unix.

Hi,
The first guess looks like the correct diagnostic, or at least that's 
what I would guess, too. You can verify this: In LyX, under Tools > 
Preferences > File Handling > File formats, there should at least one 
entry of Lilypond and one of Lilypond-Book. If those are missing then 
LyX did not find your lilypond installation or it did not find a recent 
enough version. (2.13.39 is recent enough, but maybe another installation?)

So the way forward to solve this is to

1) Make sure that the latest version of lilypond-book is the first 
occurrence of lilypond found in your global PATH variable, or 
(alternatively) in the PATH prefix that you set in the LyX settings 
under Tools > Preferences > Paths.
2) Reconfigure LyX (Tools > Reconfigure) and restart LyX


If the automatic detection does not work, you could

a) Run LyX from a terminal window, redo step 2) above and glimpse at the 
output on the terminal window for any error messages regarding the 
detection of your lilypond installation to try to understand why it fails.
b) Set up the converters manually as described earlier in the thread.

Best,
Julien