Re: emacs and using the .info lilypond documentation

[Kevin Patrick Barry]

Dear Hwaen Ch'uqi,

Thank you for your reply. All I had to do was fill the dir file with the same contents as yours and everything works now.

Perhaps someone should patch this file? Or show me how to do it.

Kevin

On 2 Dec 2014 22:42, "Hwaen Ch'uqi" <address@hidden> wrote:

Greetings Kevin,

After much experimentation in the past, this is how I solved the
problem. First, as root user, I used dired to enter the
/usr/lilypond/usr/share/info directory, where all the LilyPond info
files were placed. Then I created symbolic links for all the info
files to the directory /usr/share/info, where info files are placed by
default. This is accomplished at once by marking all files with `m'
and then applying `S'. If your installation is as mine was, the dir
file in the LilyPond info folder actually contains no entries, which
may explain why nothing appeared in the `C-h i' menu. So I created the
following set of entries and placed them in the dir files of both info
directories:

* LilyPond Changes: (lilypond-changes). New features in 2.18 since 2.16.
* LilyPond Contributor's Guide: (lilypond-contributor).
* LilyPond Essay: (lilypond-essay). Essay on automated music engraving.
* LilyPond Extending: (lilypond-extending).
* LilyPond Internals Reference: (lilypond-internals).
* LilyPond Learning Manual: (lilypond-learning).
* LilyPond Music Glossary: (music-glossary).
* LilyPond Notation Reference: (lilypond-notation).
* LilyPond Snippets: (lilypond-snippets).
* LilyPond Usage: (lilypond-usage).
* LilyPond Web: (lilypond-web).

Of course, you can tailor the explanatory annotations to suit your
needs. These steps will ensure that the entries will appear in the
main info menu, that you will be able to follow hyperlinks, and that
you will be able to view all the images. I hope this helps.

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 12/2/14, Kevin Patrick Barry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear lilypond users,
>
> My apologies in advance if the answer to this is already out there and I
> just didn't find it.
>
> I would like to be able to access the lilypond docs in emacs using the
> .info files.  So I downloaded the docs tarball and extracted it, and then
> made an entry in the init file to add the folder containing the `dir' file
> to the Info-default-directory-list. If I check the Info-directory-list
> variable from emacs the folder containing the `dir' file and all the
> lilypond .info files is in the list, but none of the files appears in the
> main info list (C-h i) and using the lilypond-mode command to access
> documentation just brings up the following error: `Info file lilypond does
> not exist'.
>
> Currently I am using a workaround (C-u C-h i, and specifying a .info file
> as the prefix) but since the documents are split up into different .info
> files it's a bit messy.
>
> I am using emacs 24.3 on linux mint 17 with lilypond 2.18.2.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kevin
>