Re: Including Lilypond files (Was: \partial only on first measure?)

[Alberto Simões]

On 28/09/2011 11:48, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote:
> On Wed 28 Sep 2011, 11:17 Alberto Simões wrote:
> > On 28/09/2011 10:49, Urs Liska wrote:
> > > > Is there any way to write some kind of the equivalent to the latex
> > > > .sty file, where I can define these files? Or is it just a standard
> > > > .ly file, \include'd?
> > > >
> > > > If so, is there any INCLUDEPATH I can set, so I do not need to copy it
> > > > for each music I use?
> > > Put this function in a standard .ly file (some prefer to name these
> > > include files .ily) and include it.
> > > You can run lilypond with the -dinclude option and specify includepaths
> > > where you can store your library.
> >
> > Yes, I can also use -I, it seems. But defining an environment
> > variable would make it a lot cleaner  :)
> Can you make an alias?
>
> I guess it's possible in bash (don't know about your system):
> alias lilypond='lilypond -Ifoo.lyi'
>
> However, i have prepared some "templates" for myself; every one contains
> `\include "macro.lyi"` within. I'd say it's better that making an alias.

Note that -I is for search path, for not a specific file. So, I can add, 
indeed,

alias lilypond='lilypond -I$HOME/lib/lilypond'

but I would still prefer,

export LILY_PATH=$HOME/lib/lilypond

:)

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Alberto Simoes
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