On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 01:27:05PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
Maybe "interactive" is a useful term? Like
"LilyPond is not an interactive program: its sole task is translating
a textual description of music into typeset music. For creating that
textual description, an editor is required.
While any general-purpose text editor can be used for this task, some
applications are specifically tailored to working with LilyPond."
Yes, this is getting verbose again, but it's likely hard to whittle it
down significantly. At any rate, it might be a starting point regarding
the concepts and information we need to convey.
Three sentences is sufficently succinct, IMO. I have no problem
with a patch that changed the download warning macro into this.
(although the above would need to be reworded slightly to
accommodate the @refs{})
- Graham