I've fiddled with Emacs and Lilypond but it didn't find my includes files that I keep in a directory in my /home directory. I tried setting that through the settings buffer for Lilypond mode but it obviously didn't take.
Has anybody found a video tutorial showing its use? Laurie On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 at 06:49, Ben Bradshaw <bleeding.fl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah pdf-tools is a good way to view PDFs within emacs. You can install it > from the emacs package manager. > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2024, 1:41 PM Kenneth Flak <kennethf...@protonmail.com> > wrote: > >> Aha, getting closer! This is all very helpful. I suspect I'm still >> missing a couple of pieces of the puzzle, but I'm getting >> something out of xpdf. I still need to figure out what/how this >> whole pdf-tools thing is all about, though. Displaying pdfs inside >> emacs, perhaps? >> >> Best, >> K >> >> "Ben Bradshaw" <bleeding.fl...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Welcome to emacs, where hackish is normal ;) I did get point and >> > click, basically by following the GNOME settings on this page >> > >> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/usage/configuring-the-system-for-point-and-click >> > I had to do that even though I'm not using GNOME or a DE at >> > all. You don't have to use pdf-tools (although I agree with >> > Immanuel it is >> > very good and you probably want it) but I got it working in both >> > zathura and xpdf as well. >> > >> > I did have one caveat, it seems I need to open the pdf in >> > zathura manually instead of using emacs C-c C-c menu. I haven't >> > tried it with >> > pdf-tools yet, so maybe that's just a zathura thing. If you get >> > lilypond-invoke-editor errors it may be that. >> > >> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 4:25 AM Immanuel Litzroth >> > <immanuel.litzr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I posted a message a while back to get point-and-click +preview >> > working >> > in emacs a while back. It was titled "Point an Click & emacs", >> > it requires >> > pdf-tools -- which you want anyway :-) >> > greetz, >> > i >> > >> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 9:18 AM Kenneth Flak >> > <kennethf...@protonmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Thanks a lot, Ben! This seems to work very nicely indeed >> > (although >> > a bit on the hacky side ;-)) >> > >> > Did you get point-and-click working by any chance? >> > >> > Best, >> > Kenneth >> > >> > "Ben Bradshaw" <bleeding.fl...@gmail.com> writes: >> > >> > > For me on Arch, I have to do this in my emacs init file: >> > > (autoload 'LilyPond-mode "lilypond-mode") >> > > (setq auto-mode-alist >> > > (cons '("\\.ly$" . LilyPond-mode) auto-mode-alist)) >> > > (setq auto-mode-alist >> > > (cons '("\\.lyi$" . LilyPond-mode) auto-mode-alist)) >> > > >> > > (add-hook 'LilyPond-mode-hook (lambda () >> > > (turn-on-font-lock))) >> > > >> > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 12:50 PM Gilles Sadowski >> > > <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > Hello. >> > > >> > > Le jeu. 4 juil. 2024 à 17:05, Kenneth Flak >> > > <kennethf...@protonmail.com> a écrit : >> > > > >> > > > "Kenneth Flak" <kennethf...@protonmail.com> writes: >> > > > >> > > > Sorry, forgot to add subject... Still getting used to mu4e >> > > > :-D >> > > > Kenneth >> > > > >> > > > > Hi list, >> > > > > >> > > > > I've started learning me a bit of emacs, and I would >> > > > > love >> > > > > to get >> > > > > lilypond working with it as well... However, the >> > > > > installation >> > > > > instructions in the documentation left me a bit >> > > > > baffled. It >> > > > > *seems* I should be able to just require the lilypond >> > > > > files, as >> > > > > they are nicely tucked away in >> > > > > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp. However, this doesn't do >> > > > > much >> > > > > for >> > > > > me... Could someone hold my hand a little bit to get >> > > > > this >> > > > > set >> > > > > up? >> > > > > I'm on Arch Linux, using emacs 29.4. >> > > >> > > On Debian/GNU Linux, it works "out of the box", perhaps due >> > > to: >> > > >> > > $ ls -l /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lilypond-data.el >> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185 Nov 17 2014 >> > > /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lilypond-data.el >> > > >> > > HTH, >> > > Gilles >> > >> > -- >> > -- A man must either resolve to point out nothing new or to >> > become a slave to defend it. -- Sir Isaac Newton >> >>
