Re: Lilypond on Mac OSX Terminal

[David Rogers]

On 28-Mar-06, at 20:26, Joel Gilmore wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying out Lilypond on OSX Tiger, and I'm trying to get  
> the command
> line working, particularly the midi2ly.  Reading the list archive,  
> people are
> saying to "read the Readme file" that came with it, but I've so far  
> been unable
> to find a Readme file. It seems that the zip just contains a single  
> Application.
>  The midi2ly file is in there, if you explicitly go in to explore  
> the package,
> but I can't work out how to use it - calling it with python  
> requires the "midi"
> module.
>
> Can anyone give slightly more explit instructions on what to do  
> from here?


Try the following:
See if you have a file called ".profile" in your home folder (i.e. in  
the folder with your name on it). Note that the file name starts with  
a dot. If there isn't a file with that name, create it.

In your .profile somewhere, add this line:

export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin

Make sure there's a blank line (i.e. a return) at the very end of the  
file

Hope that works.
David