LilyPond – Notation für Jedermann: MacOS X

MacOS X

Achtung: LilyPond is a text-based music engraver; it is more similar to a programming language than a graphical score editing program. Before downloading LilyPond, please read about our Texteingabe. Once you have downloaded LilyPond, read the start of the Learning for a gentle introduction on how to install it and use it.

Packages

Download

Mac OS X x86 32-bit: LilyPond 2.22.2-1 For Mac OS X 10.4–10.14 running on Intel CPUs (for 10.15 see below).
Unofficial 64-bit application bundles for macOS 10.15 are available at https://gitlab.com/marnen/lilypond-mac-builder/-/releases.
MacPorts, a package manager for Mac OS, has a LilyPond port.
Homebrew, another package manager for Mac OS, has a LilyPond formula.

Install

Double-click the downloaded file, then drag it to wherever you want.

Uninstall

Delete the LilyPond.app folder.

Running on the command-line

Achtung: If you are happy with the GUI instructions in the Learning Manual, then please ignore these instructions.

MacOS X on the command line

The most convenient way to run lilypond scripts is by setting up „helper“ scripts of your own.

Create a directory to store these scripts,
```
mkdir -p ~/bin
cd ~/bin
```
Create a file called lilypond which contains
```
#!/bin/bash
exec DIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond "$@"
```
Achtung: DIR will generally be /Applications/
Create similar files lilypond-book, convert-ly, and any other scripts you wish to use, by replacing the bin/lilypond with bin/convert-ly (or other program name).
Make the file executable,
```
chmod u+x lilypond
```
Now, add this directory to your path. Modify (or create) a file called .profile in your home directory such that it contains
```
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
```
This file should end with a blank line.

Invoking individual scripts

The scripts — such as lilypond-book, convert-ly, abc2ly, and even lilypond itself — are included inside the .app file for MacOS X.

Scripts can also be run from the command line by invoking them directly:

path/to/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond

The same is true for all other scripts in that directory, such as lilypond-book and convert-ly.

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