Hello,
I would like to ask a question about using Lilypond with Emacs. According to the online documentation it is possible to use Lilypond with Emacs:
The problem is that I cannot get it to work and I would appreciate if you could kindly give me a hand.
My working environment:
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bits)
- Lilypond version: 2.20.0-1
- Emacs version: 23.3 (64 bits)
In Lilypond installation directory I found the following files:
- D:\MyPrograms\LilyPond-2.20.0-1\usr\share\emacs\site-lisp\lilypond-font-lock.el
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D:\MyPrograms\LilyPond-2.20.0-1\usr\share\emacs\site-lisp\lilypond-indent.el
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D:\MyPrograms\LilyPond-2.20.0-1\usr\share\emacs\site-lisp\lilypond-init.el
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D:\MyPrograms\LilyPond-2.20.0-1\usr\share\emacs\site-lisp\lilypond-mode.el
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D:\MyPrograms\LilyPond-2.20.0-1\usr\share\emacs\site-lisp\lilypond-song.el
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D:\MyPrograms\LilyPond-2.20.0-1\usr\share\emacs\site-lisp\lilypond-what-beat.el
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D:\MyPrograms\LilyPond-2.20.0-1\usr\share\emacs\site-lisp\lilypond-words.el
What I did, was to copy all of these files in the following directory
C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Roaming\.emacs.d\my_scripts
This the directory in my .emacs.d configuration directory where I put all .el scripts that are to be read and loaded by Emacs.
Once a Lilypond file (.ly) has been opened in Emacs, I run the following commands respectively in order to enable Lilypond in Emacs:
- M-x load-library lilypond-mode
- M-x lilypond-mode
This gives me the syntax coloring, but that's all, and when I try to compile the file by doing "C-c C-b" (Lilypond-command-buffer) I get the following error message:
-*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "c:/Users/MyUserName/AppData/Local/Temp/" -*-
Compilation started at Sun Jul 26 16:07:03
cdÂ
c:/Users/MyUserName/AppData/Local/Temp/; lilypond "c:/Users/MyUserName/AppData/Local/Temp/emacs-lily".ly
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Sun Jul 26 16:07:03
However if I open a Windows command line (cmd.exe) and I copy/paste from the above, the following line from Emacs compilation buffer:
lilypond "c:/Users/MyUserName/AppData/Local/Temp/emacs-lily".ly
When I run this command it works like a charm without any problem, it compiles and produces the corresponding output PDF file. So I don't really understand what's happening in Emacs while compiling Lilypond files.
Besides, I don't get any autocompletion at all for Lilypond in Emacs.
So if anyone has succeeded in running Lilypond with Emacs in a Windows environment, I'd be so grateful if you could kindly make some clarification and indicate what's wrong with my configuration.
Thanks in advance.