Issue 2097 in lilypond: Provide lily-include directory

[lilypond]

Status: Accepted
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Labels: Type-Enhancement

New issue 2097 by address@hidden: Provide lily-include directory
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2097

Enhancement suggested by Denis Bitouzé:

I read the way of including LilyPond files here:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/including-lilypond-files.html

especially the way where one can avoid to specify the (relative or absolute)
path of the included file:

 1. either with the --include command line option

 2. or with the LilyPond directory ‘../ly’.

IMHO, none of these method is very handy:

 1. with the 1st one, one has to remember the option and configure his  
editor
for each project where "parts" files have to be included. Moreover, one  
could
need to include files from different locations: a configuration file in some
directory, part files in another directory,

 2. with the 2nd one, the 'ly' directory could be  
removed/replaced/overwritten
when LilyPond is upgraded or reinstalled.

So I suggest that LilyPond lets us have our own 'ly' directory, located in  
our
personal area (/home/<name>/ with Linux, /Users/<name>/Library/ with Mac OS,
C:\Users\<name>\ with Windows Vista or Seven) where we can put files (parts
files but, more interesting, configuration files) that can be included in
LilyPond files without their path.

If you are familiar with LaTeX, this 'ly' directory could be the $LILYHOME
equivalent to $TEXMFHOME.