Hi,

I thought I'd give the Emacs Lilypond mode a try-out. I like Emacs and have
used it a lot for coding and writing in LaTeX in my past career. (No editor
wars please, VIM is good too but I'm less familiar with it!)

I store my Includes file in a directory ~/Lilypond/includes but Lilypond
mode cannot locate them even if I specify a full file name e.g \include
"/home/Laurie/Lilypond/includes/jazzchords.ily"

I set this in my ~/.emacs file
(custom-set-variables
 '(LilyPond-include-path "/home/laurie/Lilypond/includes")
 '(LilyPond-lilypond-command "/usr/bin/lilypond"))

Still I get errors like this:
/home/laurie/Documents/Charts/Transpositions/Dear Old
Stockholm/Dear-Old-Stockhom_Traditional.ly:3:10: error: cannot find file:
`/home/Laurie/Lilypond/includes/jazzchords.ily'
(search path: `/home/laurie/Documents/Charts/Transpositions/Dear Old
Stockholm:/usr/share/lilypond/2.25.4/ly:/usr/share/lilypond/2.25.4/ps:/usr/share/lilypond/2.25.4/scm:/usr/share/lilypond/2.25.4/fonts/otf/:/usr/share/lilypond/2.25.4/fonts/svg/:')
\include
         "/home/Laurie/Lilypond/includes/jazzchords.ily"

Any ideas?

Laurie Savage
https://www.queensofthewest.com/

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