Lilypond (www.lilypond.org) is the program I've been using to create the music score images in the background and in my gallery here, among other things. I have some long-term projects that involve it, that I mentioned in earlier posts in this blog (and in
Musicstuffs.) The version I was using, and getting used to, was LilyPond 2.0.1 - very far from being up to date, but with the computer I had, the most recent one I could install. With my new machine I installed 2.6.3, but hadn't yet gotten around to successfully doing anything at all with it (except having it crash on me a few times, and seeing why :) ). I found out that I could attempt to install a much more recent version, though, so I'm trying to do so now. (One thing about the FINK project is that it takes care of almost all of the installation on a Mac for you- don't need to know a ton about configuration of environment variables, or to compile programs on which this and that is dependent - it works out the details, asks you to make some choices that aren't obvious and that you may want to make differently if it fails... - and goes ahead (filling the terminal screen with line after line of compiler invocations.)
Hoping it'll be successful- I'm looking forward to continuing a few of those projects again soon.
