Re: where (if anywhere) does lilypond look for locally shared files?

[stefano franchi]

Thank you Federico

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 4:39 PM Federico Bruni <fede@inventati.org> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 12 2021 at 15:45:26 -0500, stefano franchi <stefano.franchi@gmail.com> wrote:

Where am I supposed to store my templates, functions, snippets, etc?

Otherwise put, in  (La)TeX terms is there a lilypond equivalent of ~/texmf ?

There's no standard directory. Just use what you want and then use --include=/PATH/TO/DIR to let lilypond find your files.

So there is no way to indicate a system-wide or user-dependent location. Too bad. I'm sure I'll  forget the --include directive every other time...

On linux, there seems to be no equivalents, at least as far as I can tell. It thought

~/.local/share/lilypond would be it, but it is not created at installation time. Is there an environment variable that could be set? The docs make reference to LILYPOND_DATADIR, but that seems to indicate the global location, as far as I can tell from the following description:

LILYPOND_DATADIR

This specifies a directory where locale messages and data files are looked up by default, overriding locations defined either at compile-time or computed dynamically at run-time (see Relocation). The directory should contain subdirectories called ‘ly’, ‘ps’, ‘tex’, etc.

Or is "locale" a typo for "local"?

I'm confused

Locale refers to localization, i.e. translation files (PO files).

So "locale messages" = "localized messages", I take it. Thanks for clarifying. That's not the most common use  of "locale" in (techy) English, that's what confused me I guess.

Now I know.

 

On my current 2.23.0 installation from lilypond.org package, I see this:

$ ls .local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/

fonts  ly  ps  python  scm  vim

Locale files are in another directory:

$ ls .local/lilypond/usr/share/

bash-completion  emacs  fontconfig  gdb  ghostscript  glib-2.0  guile  lilypond  locale  xml

$ ls .local/lilypond/usr/share/locale/

af   az        bs           de           en@quot  fa  he  is  ko   mk  nds  or     ro  sq        te  ug  zh_CN

am   be        ca           dz           en@shaw  fi  hi  it  ku   ml  ne   pa     ru  sr        tg  uk  zh_HK

an   be@latin  ca@valencia  el           eo       fr  hr  ja  lt   mn  nl   pl     rw  sr@ije    th  vi  zh_TW

ar   bg        cs           en@boldquot  es       ga  hu  ka  lv   mr  nn   ps     si  sr@latin  tl  wa

as   bn        cy           en_CA        et       gl  hy  kk  mai  ms  no   pt     sk  sv        tr  xh

ast  bn_IN     da           en_GB        eu       gu  id  kn  mg   nb  oc   pt_BR  sl  ta        tt  yi

Interesting. Neither directory exists on my system (Archlinux official package installation). Instead I have a bunch of /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/lilypond.mo for various locales.

Anyway, thanks again.

S.

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