Re: .scm file?

[Graham Percival]

In the 2.8.2 docs, see 5.4 Default files.  (Joshua is correct, but  
users of other OS might like to see those docs for their own file  
locations).

Changes made to these files will affect stuff in LilyPond.  You can  
modify these files using any text editor -- it could be pico or vim,  
but it could also be notepad, TextEdit, or whatever.

References to these files are likely (hopefully!) only for reading  
those files.  I heavily recommend that you make customizations to your  
own lilypond, not these files, since any changes you make would be lost  
when you install a new version -- and if you send your .ly files to  
anybody else, they would lack your changes.

See 4.6 Style sheets in the 2.8.2 docs for more info about setting  
personal defaults.

Cheers,
- Graham

On 13-May-06, at 7:48 PM, Joshua Parmenter wrote:

> If your LilyPond.app is in Applications, they are at:
>
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/ 
> scm/ 
>
> I'm not sure, though, if changes you make to these files you be  
> reflected in your app, since what LilyPond.app launches is probably (I  
> don't know for sure) the lilypond executable at:
>
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond
>
> Whether or not the executable looks for changes in the scm files is  
> probably best answered by a developer.
>
> Josh
>
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> On May 13, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Rick Hogg wrote:
>
> > I see a lot of emails on the list and in the archive addressing  
> > modifying the ".scm" and other files to change one preference or  
> > another. My question is, on Mac OS X, where are these files located?  
> > I have a hunch that I alter them in pico, vim or TextEdit.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Rick
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