Re: [lily4jedit-user] LilyPondTool users on Mac?

[Carl S. <c_s...@by...>]

On 9/9/10 12:38 PM, "Seth Williamson" <haz...@gm...> wrote:

> First, I want to thank everybody who is trying to help a noob such as myself
> with this problem.  You guys are great.
> 
> To answer Brett's question, JEdit is 4.3.2.  LilyPondTool is 2.12.894.
> 
> Below, I copy a note I sent off-list to another potential savior explaining
> the latest problem.  If anybody on the list can help me with this and help me
> get the freaking program going, I would be eternally grateful.
> 
> James Bailey said he uses the command line.  James, I assume you can do that
> in Snow Leopard?  The only reason I've been trying to run LilyPond with JEdit
> and LilyPondTool is that a friend of mine uses that combination (albeit from a
> Vista installation), and he loves the way he gets instant feedback on what his
> code actually looks like.  I'd like to do that if I can.  Do you find that you
> can get a visual confirmation of what you're doing via the command line
> frequently enough for what you need?
> 
> At any rate, here is the note describing my most recent trouble:
> 
> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
> 
> QUOTE:
> 
> Well, I think my original problems were due to the fact that a previous
> install had forced Lilypond.app to rename itself to LilyPond 2.app.
> 
> I nuked the older version and reinstalled.
> 
> However, now I have a DIFFERENT problem.
> 
> I try to get LilyPond to process code from within JEdit and LilyPondTool, and
> I get this error:
> 
> Error running external command
> See the activity log about the problem
> Cannot run program
> "/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond" (in directory
> "/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin"): error=13, Permission
> denied
> 
> I don't get this.  I'm the only user of my MacBook, not counting a test
> account with almost no privileges I created.
> 
> If the main user doesn't have permission to use the program, what the hell is
> going on?



Open a terminal window, and type

chmod +x /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond

This should get you the execute permission on that file.

HTH,

Carl