lilypond mode is not included in emacs by default (at least not up until 30 prerelease). What is included in org mode is support for org mode lilypond blocks:
> ./lisp/org/ob-lilypond.el but that don't get you very far without lilypond and it's mode. Immanuel On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 4:09 AM Ben Bradshaw <bleeding.fl...@gmail.com> wrote: > My recollection is that lilypond mode is included by default in emacs now. > I think you should just have to load the library. Have you tried the > settings from a few messages ago in this thread? > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2024, 8:05 PM Laurie Savage <savage.lau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 >>>> >>>> -- -- A man must either resolve to point out nothing new or to become a slave to defend it. -- Sir Isaac Newton
