Tilde expansion in \include

[Andrew Bernard]

While writing flatten-ly to recursively flatten nested include files, I notice that lilypond 2.19.25 (at least) does not honour ~ in a path name, and throws a fatal error.

The NR says you can say:

\include "~/libA/libA.ly”

Am I missing something?

Setting this has no effect (and why should it?):

#(ly:set-option 'relative-includes #t)

[I am on Linux where programs can generally figure out tilde expansions.]

Andrew