Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

[Tim Rowe]

2009/5/11 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:

> RTF Learning Manual.  It's written specifically for this purpose.
> - Graham

Really I find this attitude very aggressive, hostile and unwelcoming,
and quite unlike all of the other email groups for software that I
use.

In the case of every question I have asked, I have not only scoured
the manuals -- not just the learning manual -- but also searched the
snippets repository and the web in general for anything that might
give me a clue. Each question has only been asked after *hours* of
searching. In the case of every question I have asked, somebody has
just told me to "read the manuals" as if I were some sort of idiot. I
have to say that I find the manuals very poor -- they assume a lot of
prior knowledge, and they are poorly indexed, but this is usual for
free software -- documentation almost always lags behind, but usually
it's compensated by a friendly user community.

I'm very disappointed in the attitude of some members of this group,
who seem to want Lilypond to be a private club and don't want the
inconvenience of new members. Your hostility and unhelpfulness makes
me strongly tempted to go back to Finale, but fortunately /some/
members of the mailing list have a much more welcoming and helpful
attitude.

If this is not an appropriate place to ask elementary questions that I
can't find addressed in the manuals or on the web (even if the answers
are buried in there somewhere) then please tell me where I /can/ ask
those questions. Otherwise your attitude is simply going to drive
people away. Maybe that's what you want.

-- 
Tim Rowe