A stylish, easy-to-use editor for LilyPond.
LilyPond is a fantastic tool for typesetting beautiful musical scores, but its learning curve is tremendous. LilyPond-UI makes writing & editing scores in LilyPond easier by providing a set of easy-to-use features in one package:
- Syntax highlighting
- In-line error and warning messages
- Adjustable two-up code and preview windows
- Easy access to the raw LilyPond output, for debugging
- Install the macOS build of LilyPond from http://lilypond.org/macos-x.html
- Download the most recent
LilyPond.Editor.dmgfrom the GitHub releases. - Open
LilyPond.Editor.dmgand drag LilyPond Editor.app into yourApplicationsfolder - Launch
LilyPond Editor, open a score, and write!
- Quickly save & render the open score with
⌘s - To just re-render the file (without saving any changes), hit
⌘r - Start fresh with a new LilyPond source file with
⌘n - Open a preferences window where you can tweak some settings with
⌘,
I love this app!! I was frustrated trying to learn lilypond with my usual editor (vim) and kept having to switch back and forwards with to preview the pdf (compile, then alt-tab).
This editor allows me to 'auto-render' and preview my code at every save.
I hope you continue to develop this editor. It is so much faster and simpler than Frescobaldi (which I find a bit bloaty for my tastes)