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RE: website: why do you use lilypond?
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Nick Payne |
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RE: website: why do you use lilypond? |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:41:06 +1000 |
The best introduction to Lilypond that I have seen is at
http://www.eugenecormier.com/pdfs/lilypond-guide.pdf. It's what I used when
getting started with Lilypond. By comparison, the manuals are a bit
daunting.
Nick
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> Subject: website: why do you use lilypond?
>
> Work on the actual content of the website seems to have hit a
> brick wall. I'm not very happy about this, especially since some
> of the gaps are easy to fill. (*nobody* knows *anything* about
> the non-English forums for discussing lilypond? really?!?)
>
>
> Anyway, I'm declaring the next week to be Introduction week.
> Pretend that you don't know what lilypond is. Pretend that you
> manage to navigate the scary main page in order to get to the
> Introduction page.
>
> http://lilypond.org/~graham/Introduction.html
>
> Consider two questions:
> 1. Would these 7 web pages (everything under Introduction)
> convince you to give lilypond a try?
> 2. If you used lilypond for a short time (say, 1-3 hours), would
> you regret doing so? I mean, do the current Introduction webpages
> gloss over any problems? Would you feel cheated or mislead?
> I suppose we could take the view that it's advertizing, and thus
> we should *try* to trick people, but I really dislike this aspect
> of modern society. If somebody wouldn't be happy with lilypond,
> then let's try to make sure they realize that before they try it.
>
> Pretty much everybody on this list uses lilypond, and there must
> be *some* features or reasons you use it. So answering #1 should
> be easy.
>
>
> Also, can you improve any examples? I mean, the Goyescas /
> Granados example and Cary / Baca examples look *wicked awesome*.
> In contrast, the tablature example bores me to tears, the vocal
> music example is probably missing a / accent in "trou-ve", etc.
>
>
>
> Patrick Schmidt is in charge of writing texinfo and creating
> patches for any consensus that's reached in this discussion.
> Jonathan is in charge of the Examples, and retains overall
> editorial say over the entire Introduction section. I want to go
> off and work on other stuff for a week, then return and find a
> wonderful, finished, translator-ready, Introduction section.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
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- Re: website: why do you use lilypond?, (continued)
Re: website: why do you use lilypond?, Francisco Vila, 2009/08/01
Re: website: why do you use lilypond?, Graham Percival, 2009/08/11
RE: website: why do you use lilypond?,
Nick Payne <=
Re: website: why do you use lilypond?, Tim Rowe, 2009/08/03
- Re: website: why do you use lilypond?, Graham Percival, 2009/08/03
- Re: website: why do you use lilypond?, Tim Rowe, 2009/08/06
- Re: website: why do you use lilypond?, Graham Percival, 2009/08/06
- Re: website: why do you use lilypond?, Tim Rowe, 2009/08/07
- Re: website: why do you use lilypond?, Graham Percival, 2009/08/08
- Re: website: why do you use lilypond?, fiëé visuëlle, 2009/08/10