Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Davide Liessi <address@hidden> wrote:

2014-05-13 17:52 GMT+02:00 rif <address@hidden>:
> I was attempting to install Fresdcobaldi with Lilypond.  All I can tell you
> is that running a brew install frescobaldi told me I needed MacTeX.

I'm not a Homebrew expert, but probably MacTeX is considered by
Homebrew a dependency of LilyPond itself.

That's correct.

You should install LilyPond from [1] and then install Frescobaldi
through Homebrew with `brew install frescobaldi --without-lilypond`
(see [2] for details).

I would recommend this installation method, yes.  That's unless the Frescobaldi native application is ready (sorry, haven't had a chance to test it yet), in which case I would recommend using the native application instead of Homebrew.

 

@Marnen: can you confirm that `brew install frescobaldi` asks the user
to manually install XQuartz and MacTeX? Maybe we should clarify this
in [2].

I don't think it asks for XQuartz.  Rather, installing Lilypond displays the following message:

lilypond: A LaTeX distribution is required to install.

You can install MacTeX distribution from:

  http://www.tug.org/mactex/

Make sure that "/usr/texbin", or the location you installed it to, is in

your PATH before proceeding.

 

Or maybe you could remove the dependency of Frescobaldi on LilyPond:
after all, both the download page [3] and the install guide [2] advise
to install a copy of LilyPond as a separate step; but this depends on
what is usually done in Homebrew, so I won't push for this solution
further.

I have mixed feelings about this.  I strongly recommend installing the LilyPond.app bundle, then using brew install frescobaldi --without-lilypond.  The reason that the Homebrew formula doesn't do that by default, though, is that I wanted to write the formula so that someone could take a pristine Homebrew installation, type "brew install frescobaldi", and get a usable Fresco installation with all dependencies -- including Lilypond -- satisfied.

I'm not sure I made the right choice there.  What do you think?

 

Best wishes.
Davide

Best, 

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