Re: Finding files in include paths

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

I documented it in https://codereview.appspot.com/573400043/

you could add a scheme callback similar to ly:source-file, eg.
ly:source-find to do the equivalent of kpsewhich

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 9:22 AM Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> how/where is the file searchign with LilyPond's search path is
> implemented?
>
> If I write
>   \include "a/relative/path"
> the given path is searched for relative to all search paths known to
> LilyPond.
>
> Is there a way to do the same in Scheme, say
>   (file-visible-to-lilypond "a/relative/path")
> to determine whether a target can be found within any LilyPond search
> path? Probably the function should return the absolut path, similar to
> what kpsewhich does.
>
> I need that to check whether a certain file is present (and then open
> it) without knowing the absolute location.
>
> Urs
>
>
>

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