Re: Issue 1526 in lilypond: Building only English docs

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Comment #8 on issue 1526 by address@hidden: Building only  
English docs
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1526

We heavily discourage in-tree builds; inexperienced contributors should  
always be doing out-of-tree builds in
  $LIYPOND-GIT/build/

would it be possible to add build targets so that one can do:
  cd $LILYPOND-GIT
  cd build/
  ../configure
  make essay

and have it work?  or maybe something like
  make QUICK-DOCS="essay"
or
  make quick essay learning
or ...?

I'm not sufficiently familiar with make syntax to give realistic  
suggestions for the syntax.  The bottom line is that we want it to be easy  
for windows users to type.  (well, easy for anybody to type, but I'm  
using "windows users" as an example of somebody who's completely unfamiliar  
with make and software development in general)

For various reasons (including coincidence), approximately 90% of doc work  
in the past 3 years has been done by windows users.  I'm fairly confidence  
that we'll have at least 50% being done by windows users in the 1-3 year  
timespan, so it makes sense to target this group with respect to the "ease  
of use" of the doc build system.