Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel appears to ignore LYEDITOR

[Graham Percival]

Sorry, but if we don't allow links to external websites in our
docs, we certainly don't allow non-linked descriptions about
emails!

Please read the relevant email, boil down the actual information
into anywhere from 1 to 10 sentences, and send it again.  No HTML
is needed; the manual is written in a different language anyway.
Just a textual
-----
Warning!  The above methods do not work on OSX.  Instead, you
should:
  export LY_OSX_ENV_VAR = /var/my/place
and then change the "foo" option to "bar".
-----

or whatever.

Cheers,
- Graham

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 08:05:07AM -0500, Neil Tiffin wrote:
> Sure,  Please add another note following just after the existing note at 
> the bottom of the 2.3 Point and click.
>
>       
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Point-and-click#Point-and-click
>
> <table class="cartouche" border="1"><tr><td> <p><b>Note:</b> The methods 
> described above do not work the same on Mac OS X.  Instead, you should 
> define a handler for the textedit protocol.  For more information see the 
> email sent on 2008-07-03 by Christopher Suckling to the lilypond-user 
> mail list titled, 'Re: Lilypond working on Mac OS X 10.5, 
> thanks'.</p></td></tr></table>
> Regards,
> Neil
> On May 10, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Graham Percival wrote:
>
>> We don't link to external websites in the docs.  If you can tell
>> us exactly what text to add or remove, we can do that.
>>
>> See:
>> http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding
>> (in particular, "Small additions")
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Graham
>>
>> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 06:32:53AM -0500, Neil Tiffin wrote:
>>> Nicolas,
>>>
>>> This looks really good and would have save me considerable time.
>>>
>>> Thank you for the pointer.
>>>
>>> Lilypond team: Could the info in the article or at least a pointer be
>>> added to
>>>     
>>>     http://ivo.bouwmans.name/lilypondleopard/
>>>
>>> Lilypond team:  the info in the docs at
>>>
>>>     
>>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Point-and-click#Point-and-click
>>>
>>> Should at least mention that this is not the best way or is not  
>>> intended
>>> to work for Mac OS X.
>>>
>>> Again, a pointer to or inclusion of the article below would be even
>>> better.
>>>
>>> Neil
>>> Chicago
>>>
>>> On May 10, 2009, at 2:55 AM, Nicolas Sceaux wrote:
>>>
>>>> Le 9 mai 09 à 20:32, Neil Tiffin a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> I am using the following in a shell script to start lilypond
>>>>>
>>>>> export LYEDITOR='bbedit +%(line)s %(file)s'
>>>>> echo $LYEDITOR
>>>>> cd '/Users/Shared/MainMusicFolder/lilypond files'
>>>>> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond -- 
>>>>> verbose
>>>>> -fpdf
>>>>> '/Users/Shared/MainMusicFolder/lilypond files/jinglebells.ly'
>>>>
>>>> This is not the way to go on Mac OS X. Instead, you should define
>>>> a handler for the textedit protocol.
>>>>
>>>> See <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/38202>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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