I am trying to find and view the contents of ly/titling-init.ly because I want to create my own custom \markup block to display my title, composer, etc. (rather than using title =, composer =)
but I want my custom header block to look mostly like the LilyPond defaults, so it would be helpful to see the code in titling-init.ly so I can base my own code off of it. I am running LilyPond 2.25.33 with Frescobaldi 4.0.4 on macOS Tahoe 26.1. I installed v2.25.33 from within Frescobaldi <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2026-01/msg00292.html>. Normally, I just search in macOS’s Finder for “titling-init,” and I find the file quickly. But for some reason, that is not working today. I have two questions for this list: 1. Is there a web page that shows the default contents of this file? That would be ideal, because then I wouldn’t have to worry about accidentally modifying the contents of titling-init.ly each time I open it. I found https://github.com/lilypond/lilypond/blob/release/unstable/ly/titling-init.ly — but that says \version "2.21.0" at the top. 2. How can I find the file within my machine? Knute, I’m trying to follow the instructions in your email below. I went to Finder > Applications, right-clicked on Frescobaldi, clicked “Show Package Contents,” and then saw the following. (Note that there is no “lilypond” within Resources.) [image: image.png] ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Knute Snortum Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 Subject: Re: LilyPond 2.25.32 Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List <[email protected]> On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 Thomas Scharkowski wrote: > BTW - where does Frescobaldi store its downloaded Lilypond? > Frescobaldi stores its automatic downloads of LilyPond in whatever Qt thinks the "AppData" directory is, which is different on each OS. In macOS try looking in: Applications/Frescobaldi.app/Contents/Resources/lilypond/bin or Applications/Frescobaldi.app/Contents/Resources/lilypond-binaries (I'm not sure of the path, I don't have any macOS machines to check it on.)
