Re: Lilypond & Ubuntu Help

[Jonathan Kulp]

All of the output goes to your current working directory unless you 
specify otherwise.  So, if you cd ~/Desktop as Graham suggests, then 
it'll end up there.

If you're interested, you can try this little script I wrote that 
automatically places all of the output in the same directory as the 
lilypond file you're running, not the current working directory. 
(Although I'm usually in the directory where I want stuff to go 
anyway...) It also automatically opens up the .pdf file so you don't 
have to do another command to see the output.

If you want to try it, save it in a directory called "bin" in your home 
directory (if it's not already there, then do "mkdir ~/bin"). Then be 
sure it's exectutable by doing "chmod +x ~/bin/lily".  After that, you 
type "lily filename.ly" and it'll do the rest.

Jon

George_ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This problem isn't major, as in it doesn't stop me from doing anything
> important in Lilypond, but its really annoying nonetheless.
>
> I created a lilypond file on my Desktop, called, say, Test.ly. I go to the
> terminal and type in
>
> lilypond --pdf /home/george/Desktop/Test.ly
>
> Then all the normal stuff comes up - processing, drawing, then converting to
> pdf and stuff. Except the .pdf and .ps files don't come out on the Desktop.
> They come out in the "george" folder. So, is there a way to set the output
> folder to something else?
>
> Thanks
>
> George

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