Re: "Well, here's another nice mess I've gotten myself into!" Previously Please test new lilypond installers

[Michael Hendry]

> On 1 Feb 2019, at 17:29, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Am 1. Februar 2019 18:08:16 MEZ schrieb Michael Hendry <address@hidden>:
>>> On 31 Jan 2019, at 19:32, Abraham Lee <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, Michael!
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 10:28 AM Michael Hendry
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On 29 Jan 2019, at 19:00, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> If you use alternative notation fonts you have to "install" them
>> for every new LilyPond installation.
>>> 
>>> [With apologies to Laurel & Hardy].
>>> 
>>> Having successfully installed 2.21.0, I’ve tried to install Lilyjazz
>> according to the instructions here:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/lyp-packages/lilyjazz
>>> 
>>> <snipped>
>>> 
>>> I’m probably missing something obvious - can anyone help, please?
>>> 
>>> I don't use LYP for personal reasons, but it seems nice. The errors
>> suggest that some of the core functions (e.g., \require, \pinclude,
>> etc.) are not being found, which further suggests that whatever files
>> define those are not in LilyPond's include-path. You'll have to forgive
>> me for not knowing how to fix it since, again, I don't use it, but that
>> should at least point you in the right direction.
>>> 
>>> The alternative would be to download the lilyjazz files directly from
>> that repo and include them yourself.
>>> 
>>> HTH,
>>> Abraham
>> 
>> Thanks, Abraham.
>> 
>> I’ve obviously found a way of installing the lilyjazz fonts in the
>> past, but Googling failed to find a blow-by-blow account of how it
>> should be done, and LYP looked like a good direction to follow.
>> 
>> I’ve tried simply copying the lilyjazz files from
>> Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/fonts/svg and …/otf across
>> from my copy of 2.18.2 (which works with jazz fonts) across to the
>> corresponding locations in 2.21.0, and compiling the same file via
>> Frescobaldi, but I get no staves, only chords and markup.
>> 
>> I’ve decided to abandon LYP - too many aspects I don’t quite
>> understand!
>> 
>> Can you direct me to an idiot’s guide to installing fonts in general,
>> and lilyjazz in particular?
> 
> Do you by chance run Frescobaldi from its Git repository?
> 
> Urs

I believe I downloaded a DMG file, and this About_Frescobaldi -> Version report 
looks as if it confirms that:

Frescobaldi: 2.20.0
Python: 3.5.3
python-ly: 0.9.5
Qt: 4.8.7
PyQt: 4.12
sip: 4.19.1
poppler: 0.51.0
python-poppler-qt: 0.24.0
OS: Darwin-17.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
installation kind: standalone app bundle

Michael