Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

[Trevor Bača]

On 8/30/07, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> Trevor Bača wrote:
> > Sure, I'd be happy to. (And if winds up being too complicated, then
> > that's certainly OK; just keep me in check!)
> >
> Go nuts.  :)   My only concern is the vertical space of the printed
> music on the page.  For the lilypond input, do whatever you want.
> Overrides, scheme, Turing machine simulation, whatever.
> > If I'm reading right then I think you're thinking of like a "headword"
> > example above each section in the manual? So there would be 1 fancy
> > example for 8.1.1, another fancy example for 8.1.2, and a third for
> > 8.1.3, and so on?
> >
> A "headword" for each *section*, not subsection.  There's X lines of
> fancy example for 8.1.  Nothing for 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, etc.  Just to
> make sure we're on the same page, open up 8.1 Text.  I want this to look
> like this:
> -------------------------------------
>
> 8.1 Text
> This section explains how to include text (with various formatting) in
> your scores.
> To write accented and special text (such as characters from other
> languages), simply insert the characters directly into the lilypond
> file. The file must be saved as UTF-8. For more information, see Text
> encoding <cid:part1.05030806.05010401@gmail.com>.
>
> ----------------
> ---fancy------
> ---music---------
> ----example-----
> ---------------------
>
>     * Text scripts <cid:part2.04050803.06090701@gmail.com>
>     * Text and line spanners <cid:part3.04050504.07000306@gmail.com>
>     * Text spanners <cid:part4.09010909.09040005@gmail.com>
>
>
>
> I'd like to see at least "* Text scripts" when I look at this page in
> the docs; that's the reason for the vertical constraint.

OK, sure thing.

I'll take a look over the long weekend here in the US ...

:-)





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Trevor Bača
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