2.6 release. (Was: new manual chapter)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Graham Percival wrote:
> >   The basic problem with complex examples, is that they're
> > difficult to read if you don't already know what they say.
>
>
> I confess that I haven't completely thought out what to do with this
> new possible chapter.  I'm pretty sure that we could use another
> wordy chapter that explains some of the more complicated lilypond
> stuff; I'm not certain whether that should take the form of annotated
> short examples, annotated complicated contrived examples, or just
> an extension of the existing tutorial (but in a separate chapter for
> ease of reading).
>
> If we're going to have a new chapter, IMO it should be included before
> 2.6.0.  We've rearranged the manual between 2.4 and 2.6, so users will
> have to get used to a new chapter numbering scheme; it would be a pity
> if 2.6.5 (or whatever) introduced a new chapter which changed the
> chapter numbering scheme again.

In general, I advise to resist the temptation to start something new 
(new chapter, new approaches), until you're sure that what we have 
doesn't work. Starting something new is easy, but following through with 
something isn't.

Regarding the release: you can insert an empty chapter now. I hope to 
release 2.6 Real Soon Now, and I don't want to stop the release because 
of unwritten doc chapters.

At the moment there are still these show-stoppers before I can release 2.6

 - add encoding to emmentaler font for correct PDF embedding
 - MacOS X doesn't get dynamic fonts
 - drum notation is broken.

Any other  pressing problems?

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