Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> Comment #2 on issue 1834 by address@hidden: Website: provide
> link to .ly for examples
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1834
>
> Summarising comments on bug-lilypond:
>
> The examples are often too complex and lengthy to be really useful to
> beginners.
> As above, they wouldn't work in mouse-over bubbles.

The mouse-over bubble would show a looking-glass view into the source,
centered at the corresponding view.  If that is feasible, it would show
the text from the corresponding point in the source up to (but not
including) the next point in the source corresponding to a different
graphical element.  The disadvantage of this particular mechanical way
might be that tweaks and overrides would likely end up in the bubble of
the graphical element before the element they actually affect.  One
would need to try this out in order to see how one would create best
extracts.

I am not convinced that this would be worthless.

> The source of the examples has value, both as a snippet, and as a
> teaching tool.

It would not meet the label "snippet" usually.

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David Kastrup