LilyPad is (was) a Mac OS X quasi-real-time previewer for the LilyPond music typesetting system. I never got it anywhere close to where I wanted it to be, and I am currently looking for someone to take over its development or replace it with something new.
LilyPad does not work with current versions of LilyPond, so it’s not even slightly useful anymore. If somebody takes it over, I’ll post a link here.
The old LilyPad Page is available here, if you’re interested, and you can see information about the code here.
I am a fairly new LilyPond user. I use it mainly to adapt music for small recorder groups.
I only use LilyPond on a Mac. It’s my understanding that LilyPad is the text-editor that I use when I click on the LilyPond icon in the dock. Is that correct?
If so, I find that LilyPad works just fine with LilyPond 2.12.3. What did you mean by your statement that LilyPad doesn’t work with current versions of LilyPond? I am rather dismayed that it appears that LilyPad is on the way out. I guess I’ll be using vi for my future LilyPond work, eh?
How can I find out more information about the internals of LilyPad? Philosophy, language, etc?
Nope, LilyPad was a short-lived editor+previewer that I distributed separate from LilyPond. The one that comes with the LilyPond distribution is safe and sound—no worries!
A recent glance around the mailing list archives indicates that the best LilyPond tool on Mac OS X these days is a jEdit plugin. You’re subject to the rather un-Mac-like jEdit UI, but the feature set looks to be very nice.
Hi Ed,
I might be interested taking it over. I’m a musician, software developer and mac user… I’ve almost no experience in Cocoa/Objective-C but just asking to start with something interesting like LilyPad.
Many thanks,
Sam