Re: texinfo manual?

[Steven Arntson]

"Hwaen Ch'uqi" <address@hidden> writes:

> Gretings,
>
> Have you found a remedy for the problem of broken images in LilyPond's
> texinfo manuals? If not, I believe I have found the answer, though at
> a slight cost of self-guilt. The images are broken because, as the
> manuals are now in a different directory, the file paths of the images
> given in the source code no longer work. The easiest solution is to
> return the texinfo files to their original directory (which in my case
> was /usr/lilypond/usr/share/info) and to modify the LilyPond entries
> in your /usr/share/info/dir file to reflect the manuals' new location.
> So, for example, if the entry for the notation manual looks something
> like this,
>
> * LilyPond Notation Reference: (lilypond-notation).
>
> then you should edit it to look something like this:
>
> * LilyPond Notation Reference:
> (/usr/lilypond/usr/share/info/lilypond-notation).
>
> (Of course, this may vary slightly depending upon where you installed
> LilyPond.) Finally, make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that, in the directory
> where you have returned the info files, there is still a lilypond
> link. In my dired buffer, the full line reads like this:
>
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 hwaen 1002     35 Mar 17 13:04 lilypond ->
> ../doc/lilypond/html/Documentation/
>
> Without this symbolic link, which is assumed to exist by the given
> path of each png file in the source code of the manuals, you will
> still see no images.
>
> So, in sum, the original answer to your question should have been a
> lot smoother, and that was merely to put entries in your
> /usr/share/info/dir file that acknowledged the existence of the
> LilyPond texinfo files and indicated where the texinfo reader could
> find them. I am sorry to have initially misdirected you, and I should
> have waited until my own emacs was running again before advising you.
> If your have further questions, you may write to me off-list, as I
> believe the necessary information for Lily users who use texinfo
> manuals on emacs has now been covered.
>
> Hwaen Ch'uqi
>

Thanks for getting back to me about this! I tried to follow your
instructions here, but became confused due to my inexperience mucking
around outside of my ~/ directory.

However, since you also suggested what would have been a more
straightforward solution to my original query, I uninstalled Lilypond
and reinstalled again with the --documentation switch. Then I corrected
the links in my /usr/share/info/dir document as you suggested, and now
everything works as it should---images and all.

Thank you again,
Steven