Re: Lilypond & Ubuntu Help

[Jonathan Kulp]

Well, my face is red.  Just tried my script from a different directory 
and it doesn't put the output in the right place.  I guess I've always 
just cd'd to the right dir before running the script.  Sorry about that! 
 I'll see if I can make it work right.  Just have to figure out how to 
capture the path of the first argument.  I'm new at scripting so this 
could take a while :)

Jon

Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> 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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