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 <barr...@tcd.ie> 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 > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user