Re: Repost (file-exists? and expanding search path --include=DIRECTORY

[Timothy Lanfear]

Can you make use of the LilyPond Scheme function ly:find-file? This function returns either #f or the full path to the file. Directories passed with -I arguments are searched. The function is documented here https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/internals/scheme-functions.

On 02/11/2024 15:35, Rob Daasch wrote:

> [Repost:
>       The first post Thunderbird had HTML 'on'. The appended short
>       example was a mess.  My apologies.]
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>       
>       First time post
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>       Attached is a short, I dare not call it tiny, lilypond input file
>       demonstrating an issue with (file-exists? and the use of
>       --include=DIRECTORY on the command line.
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>       Is there a list or string that I can access from a lilypond script
>       that contains the entire search path? In the application here, the
>       path has to contain additions from -include=DIRECTORY.
>       
>       
>       To run example shown below, a separate directory 'RealBookClone'
>       and 'LilyJAZZ.ily' as a dummy file in 'RealBookClone' are needed.
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Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK.