Re: texinfo manual?

[Hwaen Ch'uqi]

Greetings,

Hmmm. Dense? I hardly doubt it! Perhaps you might try this: Reinstall
lilypond with the .sh script but also call for documentation,
something like this:

sudo sh LILYPONDFILENAME.sh --prefix=PATH --documentation

>From my experience, this will take substantially longer to download,
but you wil then have the complete documentation locally - at least in
html format. But it may be that this direction also grabs the texinfo
files and places them in the aforementioned lilypond/usr/share/info
directory? Having always downloaded and installed lilypond this way, I
have never noticed whether the --documentation flag was neded to
obtain the .info files. I do hope this works.

Hwaen Ch'uqi



On 8/18/14, Steven Arntson <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Hwaen Ch'uqi" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Greetings Steven,
>>
>> The manuals are in Texinfo format, and the good news is that they are
>> merely hidden. Going off the top of my head, I believe the files are
>> located in the folder lilypond/usr/share/info. There, you should find
>> just over 30 files, most with a .info extension. Move them to your
>> folder called /usr/share/info. N.B. -- You may need to be root to do
>> this. Then you should be able to access the files with `c-h i'. I hope
>> this helps.
>>
>> Hwaen Ch'uqi
>>
>>> One thing I'm missing now is the manual in texinfo format (I think). I
>>> use Emacs to enter my lilypond docs, and I used to have a bunch of
>>> manuals that I could open with C-h i. I think they were in texinfo
>>> format. Now they're gone...
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> steven arntson
>
> My lilypond/usr/share contains:
>
> emacs
> fonts
> ghostscript
> glib-2.0
> guile
> lilypond
> locale
>
> The lilypond file there contains /current, which contains:
>
> compiler
> ftdetect
> ftplugin
> indent
> syntax
>
> I've searched all around ... is it possible I downloaded 2.18.2 without
> these files?
>
> Sorry if I'm being dense! I am often more dense than I wish.
>
> -steven
>