Re: Texinfo manual.

[Nick Payne]

On 29/06/11 04:42, Graham Percival wrote:

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:34:45PM +0200, Michel Villeneuve wrote:

Did you try install lilypond with the --doc option ?

sh lilypond-2.14.1-1.linux-x86.sh --doc

woah, I had no idea that existed!

James: please add a

"""
Help

In the shell, type:

sh lilypond-51234.sh --help
"""

to the Unix download page on the website.  Push directly when
you're done, unless you're feeling really uncertain for some
reason.

I just tried this. I already had the install file and doc tarball for 2.14.1 downloaded to the same folder, and using the --doc option used the already-downloaded doc tarball to install the documentation. However, the message the installer puts out at the end of the install gives the wrong location for the documentation. The installer prints out:

"Full documentation can be found at

    file:///usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/doc/lilypond/html/index.html
    file:///usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/info/dir"

But this path wasn't valid. The index.html file was actually installed to

file:///usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/doc/lilypond/html/offline-root/index.html

and the actual (English) documentation is at

file:///usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/doc/lilypond/html/offline-root/Documentation/web/manuals.html

Also, even if the manuals are installed locally, using the search facility still goes to the web and uses Google to search the online documentation.

Nick