Could you please add the forwarded feature request to the tracker? Carl said "It seems to me that this would be a useful thing". Graham: "That's a feature request from at least 7 years ago. It's not at all new. If you want to get it "in the system", send it to bug-lilypond.".
Similar request on lilypond-user a few days ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-12/msg00117.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2011-12/msg00073.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Denis Bitouzé <dbito...@wanadoo.fr> Date: 5 December 2011 17:21 Subject: $LILYHOME as $TEXMFHOME with LaTeX To: lilypond-de...@gnu.org Hi, thanks a lot for developing and maintaining LilyPond! I read the way of including LilyPond files here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/including-lilypond-files.html especially the way where one can avoid to specify the (relative or absolute) path of the included file: 1. either with the --include command line option 2. or with the LilyPond directory ‘../ly’. IMHO, none of these method is very handy: 1. with the 1st one, one has to remember the option and configure his editor for each project where "parts" files have to be included. Moreover, one could need to include files from different locations: a configuration file in some directory, part files in another directory, 2. with the 2nd one, the 'ly' directory could be removed/replaced/overwritten when LilyPond is upgraded or reinstalled. So I suggest that LilyPond lets us have our own 'ly' directory, located in our personal area (/home/<name>/ with Linux, /Users/<name>/Library/ with Mac OS, C:\Users\<name>\ with Windows Vista or Seven) where we can put files (parts files but, more interesting, configuration files) that can be included in LilyPond files without their path. If you are familiar with LaTeX, this 'ly' directory could be the $LILYHOME equivalent to $TEXMFHOME. What is opinion about this suggestion? Best regards. Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
