Re: Alternative to Frescobaldi

[J Martin Rushton]

On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 19:53 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 02 Sep 2022 at 22:46:01 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote:
> > On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 16:17 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > On Fri 02 Sep 2022 at 21:43:25 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote:
> > > > I've just spent another couple of hours clearing out previous
> > > > attempts
> > > > to get Frescobaldi running and attempting to sort out its
> > > > dependency
> > > > hell.
> > > > 
> > > > Is there any alternative to Frescobaldi?
> > > 
> > > An editor (emacs) + LilyPond + PDF viewer (xpdf).
> > > (My choices in parentheses.)
> > > 
> > > > I'm running AlmaLinux 8.6 if that helps.
> > > 
> > > Not a great deal; does it mean that F~ isn't part of the
> > > distribution?
> > > 
> > My preference is for vi, but yes, that's what I've been using for
> > the
> > last couple of years since F~ stopped working.  What I miss though
> > is
> > the back link from the score to the source, and the MIDI playback.
> 
> 0. Which PDF viewer, and which version of LP?

Evince
$ lilypond -v
GNU LilyPond 2.22.1
...

> 
> 1. Does the PDF have the textedit URLs?
>    $ grep -a textedit foo.pdf
>    /URI(textedit:///tmp/restpos.ly:4:16:17)>>
>      …            …            …

Yes

> 2. Does the PDF viewer see them? Look for cursor to change as you
>    move over a notehead.

Yes

> 3. Run the PDF viewer from the commandline. Click on an active
>    notehead. What appears on the console? Anything like:
>      lilypond-invoke-editor (GNU LilyPond) 2.22.0

"textedit://<path...>/BlowAwayTheMorningDew.ly:35:16:17"

> 4. Is lilypond-invoke-editor defined?
>    $ which lilypond-invoke-editor
>    /usr/bin/lilypond-invoke-editor

$ command -v lilypond
/opt/bin/lilypond
$ ls -l /opt/bin/lilypond
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 112 Feb 13  2022 /opt/bin/lilypond
$ ls -l /opt/bin/lilypond-invoke-editor
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Feb 13  2022 /opt/bin/lilypond-invoke-editor
-> /opt/bin/lilypond-wrapper.guile


> 5. Can lilypond-invoke-editor open a file in an editor,
>    preferably the one you want?
>    $ lilypond-invoke-editor textedit:///tmp/foo.txt:2:4:6
>    /tmp/foo.txt is the full path to any old text file with
>    more than a couple of lines in it. The cursor should land
>    on the second line, four chars along.

$ lilypond-invoke-editor
textedit:///<path...>/BlowAwayTheMorningDew.ly:2:4:6
lilypond-invoke-editor (GNU LilyPond) 2.22.1
sh: emacsclient: command not found
sh: emacs: command not found

> How many of those steps work?
> 
> And at the other end of the process, are you starting vi as
> a server, with something like:
> 
> $ gvim
> $ vim --servername GVIM
> $ vi --servername gvim
> 
> (letter-case unimportant), else you might see:
> E247: no registered server named "GVIM": Send failed.

$ vi BlowAwayTheMorningDew.ly

FYI
$ command -v vi
/usr/bin/vi
bash-4.4$ ls -l /usr/bin/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1180368 Aug  2 17:57 /usr/bin/vi

> Cheers,
> David.
-- 
J Martin Rushton MBCS