Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Valentin Villenave <address@hidden>:

> Well, my problems mostly come from the fact I don't always know the
> right English word for what I'm looking for...

I hope you have seen the Music glossary, included in the LilyPond
documentation.

> -a little box with a simple "search" button would be welcome on
> Lilypond.org, I really can tell you. Maybe it isn't the point to have
> some of those roaring websites, with complicated CMS, stylesheets,
> interface etc., but just a simple integrated search function ; is it
> possible to think about it ?

There is a search function, at the bottom of www.lilypond.org, even 
though one of the problems with it is that it often lists links to old 
versions of the manual first.

> ...
> You see, I understand LilyPond docs are very well organized. But we
> average users (and newbies) are not _that_ rational. Sometimes,
> navigating through tutorial, documentation, sections, sub-sections and
> so on can be longer and more difficult (no matter how "logical" it can
> be)  than just typing a keyword and letting the computer find it for
> you.

I also hope you have found the index of the manual (it seems that many 
people miss it (partly since it's called "LilyPond index" for
silly technical reasons).


  /Mats