Re: How do I get Emacs mode?

[David Sumbler]

Thanks for the link to your explanation of what to do to get Emacs
Lilypond mode working.

This was easy to follow, and I now have syntax highlighting etc. working
for Lilypond files.

Just one thing, though: when I load a .ly file into Emacs
I get a message:

Warning: `lilypond-words.el' not found in `load-path'. See
`lilypond-init.el'

I've had a look at lilypond-init.el, which is no help.  I also found a 
scripts/build/lilypond-words.py file in the Lilypond 2.18.0 source that
I downloaded, but when I tried to run that in python I got:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Downloads/lilypond-2.18.0/scripts/build/lilypond-words.py", line
21, in <module>
    s = open ('lily/lily-lexer.cc', 'r').read ()
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'lily/lily-lexer.cc'

How do I obtain or generate the lilypond-words.el file?

Incidentally, in response to David Kastrup's suggestion "How about
upgrading Ubuntu?", the reason I am sticking with Ubuntu 12.04 at the
moment is because it is an LTS (long term support) version.  I shall
probably change to 14.04 LTS a few months after it is released (so that
the worst bugs can be sorted out first).

As a professional musician and not a computer expert (as you can tell!),
I find that reinstalling Ubuntu every other year is more than enough
hassle, especially as I have to do it on 2 computers.  A new
installation every 6 months is just asking too much, and in my
experience Ubuntu upgrades (as distinct from clean installs) always
cause immense problems, so I have given up on them.

David


On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 16:04 -0500, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote:
> On 1/27/14, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> > David Sumbler <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> Thanks to all for your responses to my enquiry about misaligned
> >> dynamics.  Thanks especially to Hwaen Ch'uqi, who tried to answer my
> >> question: unfortunately,
> >> \override Dynamics.DynamicText.self-alignment-X = #-1
> >> (modified for the different syntax in Lilypond 2.14.2) did not solve the
> >> problem.  I think this is because -1 is the default value in any case.
> >>
> 
> Actually, the default is #0. The reason the code did not work is
> because, as I stated earlier, the ways of calling overrides has
> changed and so will not work unless you have upgraded to the latest
> stable version.
> 
> >> You all suggested, as I was afraid you would, that instead of trying to
> >> get 2.14.2 to do what I want, I should change to 2.18.0.  Considering
> >> that http://www.lilypond.org/unix.html positively encourages us to use
> >> the default version with distros such as Ubuntu (v2.14.2 in this case),
> >> this is not what a new user might expect!
> >
> I suspect that you had installed 2.14.2 via ubuntu's apt-get
> mechanism, which placed all the files in their correct location.
> Manual installations, via the .sh script, will not place certain
> files, such as the .el or .info files, where you might wish them.
> Please have a look at this thread:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-05/msg00827.html
> 
> The last message of the thread should answer your questions. The
> directory in view is either lisp or site-lisp.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> Hwaen Ch'uqi