Re: lilypond-book include *.ly, cannot find file

[Olivier Biot]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Cognac Natanael <address@hidden> wrote:

Thank you very much for your answer Olivier,

There is no spaces or fancy character in my directories or files names.

Okay, so you don't need to use quotes around the directory names (not that it hurts having them).

And I think I’ve tried l’option that you've mentionned, and I tried with the option you’ve mentionned :
lilypond-book --include=my-lilypond-repertory/

Exactly. You must specify every directory with a separate "--include" directive.
 

But after some new tests, I found something that works.

This si how is the directory I’m working in :

lilypond/
    config.ly
    score.ly
    tuneA/
        tuneA.ly
    tuneB/
        tuneB.ly

At the beginning and the end of tuneA.ly and tuneB.ly, I have those instructions :
\include "../config.ly"
\include "../score.ly"

So in order to make lilypond-book work with those includes, I have to specify each directory of tune !!! (I’ve got more than twenty and it should grow !) and thus, it works :
lilypond-book
--include=/home/user/project/lilypond/tuneA/
--include=/home/user/project/lilypond/tuneB/
--include=/home/user/project/lilypond/tuneC/
--include=/home/user/project/lilypond/tuneD/
etc… for each tune, it’s really cumbersome …

This is the way it is currently available. You could automate part of this effort with some shell scripting, e.g. (assuming Bash):

includespec=""

for i in  /home/user/project/lilypond/tune* ; do

  includespec="$includespec --include \"$i\""

done

lilypond-book $includespec --output=out --pdf lilybook.lytex

BEWARE: I wrote the commands above without testing since I have no access to a Linux box at the moment.

If you had a more complexe directory structure, then you'd have to crawl down the entire subdirectory tree; the easiest way for doing so at the *NIX command shell is with 'find'. The first line of the 'for' statement would then read as follows:

dirlist=`find /home/user/project/lilypond/musicfiles/ -t d`

for i in $dirlist; do

BEWARE: I wrote the commands above without testing since I have no access to a Linux box at the moment.

I’m sure I read somewhere (I didn’t find it back) that lilypond-book will look recursively into the reportory pointed out with --include. But apparantly it’s not the case.

No, or maybe "not yet" :)

Any lighter solution than the one I found ?

It would be great if a new recursive --include command were added to lilypond-book (e.g. --include-base). It could even internally translate into a cascade of --include directives (e.g. via the *NIX 'find' trick implemented in Python)

Oh yes, and before I forget: make sure you NEVER have two LilyPond files sharing the same file name when using lilypond-book!

Thanks again for your help.
P.S: I forgot to mention my version : 2.16.1 (and I work with archlinux).

Maybe the lilypond-book author can shed some light on this?

Best regards,

Olivier