Re: constructive criticism

[Dave Pawson]

At 19:05 08/01/2004, François Pinard wrote:
> [John Williams]
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > > Why not edit the texinfo source directly, and send a patch?
>
> > You are asking the users to learn texinfo, diff and patch before they
> > can help you.  And as someone else pointed out, if they install a prebuilt
> > version, they don't even have the texinfo source.
>
> I do not know if this may be organised, but what about pairing people:
> one being good for documentation itself, with one being good with
> technicalities like Texinfo, diff and patch.  The second would translate
> the work of the first for easing integration in the distribution.  (I'm
> not volunteering as either in these times, however.)


http://www.tldp.org/texi2db/

If the documentation were in docbook, its far more approachable
than texinfo (IMHO).

If someone would bundle the lilypond documentation up,
I'll have a first cut, see what you all think?

HTH daveP