LyX, Songbird, and Mac OS X

[Liz Cademy]

Hello!

I am brand new to LaTeX and Lyx. I downloaded them specifically to
create a book of song lyrics for my daughter.

Details: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) on a PowerBook G4

I am very familiar with the Mac OS, but not with linux or the
terminal. If the solution to my problem needs me to work in Terminal,
please be very, very specific.

I am trying to install Songbird. I am following the instructions on
this wiki page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Songbook#toc4

I downloaded SongbookRelease 4.0, unpacked it, and put it in my ~/
application Support/Lyx folder. Though it isn't stated in the wiki,
this seems like the logical place for the files.

I downloaded Songbook_lyx, unpacked it, and also put it in the same
folder.

I then opened Lyx and chose the Reconfigure menu item. I got a dialog
that said Lyx was reconfigured (with no details) and to restart Lyx,
which I did.

I tried opening the Songbook template in Lyx, I get a "The document
class songbook could not be found ..." dialog.

I noticed that I have the conditionals.sty file, but not the
songbook.sty file. The wiki shows a download for the songbook.sty
file, but when I downloaded it (again, into my applications support/
lyx folder), I got the exact same error in Lyx, even after
reconfiguring.


Help, please!

--Liz

[BH]

I am trying to install Songbird. I am following the instructions on this
http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Songbook#toc4
I downloaded SongbookRelease 4.0, unpacked it, and put it in my
~/application Support/Lyx  folder.  Though it isn't stated in the wiki, this
seems like the logical place for the files.

Songbook is a LaTeX package, and so it belongs in your LaTeX tree. On
Mac, that would be at:

~/Library/texmf/tex/latex

(You can use the Finder to put it there.)

I downloaded Songbook_lyx, unpacked it, and also put it in the same  folder.

LyX's layout files need to be in the layout folder of your LyX user's
directory. That would be (on Mac):

~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts

Put it there, then reconfigure and restart LyX. That should solve your problems.

BH

[Liz Cademy]

I am trying to install Songbird. I am following the instructions on this
http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Songbook#toc4...

Songbook is a LaTeX package, and so it belongs in your LaTeX tree....

I downloaded Songbook_lyx, unpacked it, and also put it in the
same folder.

LyX's layout files need to be in the layout folder of your LyX user's
directory. ...

Thanks, BH! This has gotten me a lot further!

I have put the files in the correct folders, and reconfigured LyX. I
then opened the songbook template, and *some* of the environments are
appearing:

Song, OpGroup, Verse, Chorus, Chrous Note

There's a batch of code such as \Ch{#1}{#2} at the top of the
template, and more code-like stuff where the song title, author, etc.
should be. I'm guessing this is LaTeX markup that LyX hasn't
interpreted.

Out of curiosity, I opened sample-sb.tex in TeXShop (which came with
my TeX installation package). Though I can't read (or work with) the
file, when I hit the Typeset button, I get a Preview with everything
appearing correctly. Most notably, the song's title block comes
through correctly.

When I try to preview the songbook example file, I get errors:
Missing \endcsname inserted.
Missing \endcsname inserted.
Missing number, treated as zero.
LaTex error: Missing \begin(document).
Extra \endcsname.


I do hope I can get this figured out ... hopefully to the point where
my daughter (13, but not a computer geek) can maintain her own songbook.

--Liz