Re: file locations or links in snippets

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham

I just came across this in my inbox and realised I hadn't replied to it. 
Sorry.

You wrote Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:35 PM

> Trevor, I modified LM 4.6.3 Other...   a bit, but it's now a mess.
> I didn't think that you'd introduced "GUB",

That's right, it hasn't been mentioned.

> so I called them
> "Download from lilypond.org".  It's really looking like this stuff
> should go in AU, but that destroys the "read from start to finish,
> everything included" nature of the LM.  :(

and removes the logical connection with tweaking, so I think its ok here.

> Any brilliant suggestions?  I'm stuck.  :|

First, I'd give the full paths to the file that would be used by default 
during install, and say that's what they are.  Anyone who changed the 
default path should have no trouble adjusting these.  So for Windows it 
would be:

C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/

(Using INSTALLDIR for C:/Program Files doesn't seem right to me.)

I don't know what the others would be though.

Second, I'd drop the strong bits and simply use four paras like:

"If you are using MS Windows (any flavour) and downloaded the standard 
version of LilyPond from lilypond.org, the directory of interest is
C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/."

"If you installed LilyPond by using a package manager or by compiling it 
from source the directory of interest on any system is
PREFIX/share/lilypond/X.Y.Z/
where ... etc"


> Cheers,
> - Graham

HTH
Trevor