Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

[Tim McNamara]

On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Tim McNamara wrote:

> 
> On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:22 AM, Peter Jaques wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Hans. You didn't quite understand my question, I think.
>> 
>> I understand that I *can* put files practically anywhere. The problem is 
>> that I then have to use a really long include line like:
>> 
>> \include /Users/peter/Documents/asdf.ly
> 
> 
> 
> I would consider that a short line.  
> 
> My solution is to use templates for my .ly files; these have my layouts for 
> lead sheets already set up, all I have to do is fill in the information 
> unique to that file (the melody, harmony, identifying information, etc.).  
> All the \include lines are already written in the template and can be 
> commented out as needed.
> 
> You can shorten 
> 
>     \include /Users/peter/Documents/asdf.ly
> 
> to
> 
>     ~/peter/Documents/asdf.ly
> 
> if that helps.

Oops:

     \include ~/peter/Documents/asdf.ly


would be correct, of course...