Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

[Nick Payne]

On 07/12/11 12:58, huzzam wrote:
> Hi--
>
> I'm fairly new to lilypond, and am starting to write my own ly files to
> include. I want to put them somewhere that will be accessible easily from
> any score (user defaults). The only place I've so far been able to find to
> put them is inside the lilypond application package itself
> (/Applications/Lilypond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/ly).
> This obviously is annoying when I upgrade lilypond, as I have to dig in
> there and copy my files to the new one.
>
> Is there some place I can put them so that I can still just "\include
> asdf.ly" (without a path), but which is not inside the package itself?
> Something along the lines of ~/Library/lilypond or /usr/share/lilypond?

I have all my lilypond source files in one directory structure, with the 
include ly files at the top level, and for projects with source in lower 
level dirs, I create symbolic links pointing to the include files at the 
top level. There may be a neater way of doing it...

Nick