Re: Lilypond-book and TeXshop on Mac: Newbie questions

[Dona Mommsen]

Hi,

thanks to all who responded to my posts. 

> 
> One of the best way to use lilypond-book with TeXShop is to use a dedicated
> "engine". Nicola Vitacolonna, a lilypond and LaTeX user, made a very
> interesting one. You can find it here :
> 
> http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~nicola.vitacolonna/home/content/lilypond-engines-texshop
> http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~nicola.vitacolonna/home/content/lilypond-engines-texshop
>  
> 
> Unfortunately, layout in snippets created by lilypond-book is not the best
> part of lilypond-book. Usually, I use lilypond-book snippets for 1 or 2
> lines scores. For more important scores, I include the pdf created by
> lilypond. For long scores, pdfpages is usefull
> 
> Philippe
> 


For the time being, Nicola Vitacolonna's engine(s) do(es) the trick for me. 
Thanks a lot! Also thanks for the warning about snippets in lilypond-book.


Just one more thing I found out: 
The engine(s) cannot handle special characters in the path names, even when 
they do not appear in a relative path. I had a subfolder ./Exemples with the 
Lilypond files, but the path further up contained french special characters, so 
I ran into «file not found»  troubles. 

> To your question -- also on a Mac 10.7.3 -- I am using a different
> approach, so won't be able to help you. (I use a makefile, which
> automatically executs only those commands that are needed because of
> some changes, but my setup is probably too involved and specialized to
> be easily transportable. I can let you know howto if you want to try
> your hand on using "make" and Makefile.)
> 
> Rembrandt


Thanks for the offer Rembrandt. And yes please, just out of curiosity, I'd like 
to know how you do this. I guess your makefile makes you less dependent on 
changes to TexShop or Lilypond as bundled apps? BTW: How do you install 
Lilypond? Do you use Fink?


Have a great time,

Dona


P.S: I'd like to apologize for the initial flood of messages, it actually took 
several hours for my first post to get through, so I kept trying… Maybe adding 
a little waring on the mailing list website would be helpful, like: «first 
posts may take longer because they are moderated»


> 
On 4/26/12 8:49 AM, Dona Mommsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm subscribed to this list for years, as I'm an occasional user of lilypond.
> I'm trying to post to this list, but so far, my messages didn't get through.
> I've tried sending e-mails directly and I tried the web-interface.
> From the gmane list, I got through the confirmation process.
> The e-mail I received mentioned that my message should show up in a few 
> minutes. 
> That was hours ago.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dona