Thanks so much, Knute.

Knute Snortum wrote:

> I added a snippet to the LilyPond Wiki (
> https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Displaying_LilyPond%27s_data_directory)
> which may become obsolete if Werner Lemberg's MR is merged.
>

Your snippet is very helpful for users like me who live in Frescobaldi and
don’t often use the command line.


how to download LilyPond in Frescobaldi is documented in
> LilyPond's learning manual and Frescobaldi's help under Preferences ->
> LilyPond.
>

Are you referring to 1 Installing (LilyPond Learning Manual)
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/learning/installing>?

I noticed today that 1.1 Graphical setup under GNU/Linux
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/learning/graphical-setup-under-gnu_002flinux>
guides new users to install Frescobaldi and then have Frescobaldi
“automatically install some version of LilyPond.”

But 1.3 Graphical setup under macOS
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/learning/graphical-setup-under-macos>
instead guides users to download LilyPond first, and then, “after this,
download the latest release of Frescobaldi.”

   I am a macOS user, so I used LilyPond for a year or longer before I
learned that I could have set up LilyPond from within Frescobaldi at the
outset (or that I can install new LilyPond releases from within
Frescobaldi, too).

   The Windows instructions also do not mention that new users can do
everything within Frescobaldi: 1.2 Graphical setup under Windows
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/learning/graphical-setup-under-windows>
.

I suggest that the Windows and macOS setup tutorials be changed to mirror
the GNU/Linux instructions, because it’s less intimidating for potential
converts to LilyPond, if they are not too computer-savvy, to install only
one software program (Frescobaldi) and do everything within that program.

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