Re: Gvim point and click guide

[Carl Sorensen]

From: Andrew Bernard <address@hidden>
Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 8:18 PM
To: Carl Sorensen <address@hidden>
Cc: Devel <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Gvim point and click guide

Hi Carl,

Some interlineated comments.

Should I just make this a tutorial on Scores of Beauty? But it seems very 
integral to lilypond to me, and many people stumble over this.

Andrew


On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 11:48, Carl Sorensen 
<address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:


On 2/26/19, 4:32 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Andrew Bernard" 
<address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden> on behalf of 
address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:

    There's been a lot of long discussion about how to get gvim going with
    point and click lately. I finally achieved this, but found the NR missing
    important information, and to be ever so slightly in error. To that, I
    wrote a fully fleshed out howto page on what to do. I posted it to the user
    group, with not a sniff of interest. I believe what I wrote would be a
    worthwhile contribution to the NR in this area.

    How does one go about submitting this to the documentation team?

Right now, there isn't a documentation team.  We're running very short-handed.


I'd be willing to guide you to prepare a patch for submission, if you'd be 
willing to learn the steps.
Happy to do so.

I'm not sure exactly how you envision this going into the documentation.  You 
suggest the NR, but you don't say where in the NR.   All of the information I 
am aware of on configuring LilyPond with vim is found in the Usage manual, not 
the Notation Reference.  But your information is much more tutorial in form 
than is Usage.  So I'd like to hear where you think it should go.
A slip of the keyboard. I mean the section in the Usage documentation.

It will be easier to get a patch approved if you can have it work within the 
existing framework, rather than trying to completely remake the framework.
I never intended to change the framework, just looking for a way to slot this 
in.

Great!  Can you tell me by section number where you want each piece of the 
information to go?


In reviewing your tutorial, I noticed that you have installed lilypond in your 
home directory, rather than in /usr/local.   That may be why you see the error 
message and others do not, but I am just guessing; I don't have an Ubuntu 18 
setup.
No, I am aware of that. By default the downloadable installs into $HOME, does 
it not?

I don’t know.  I use it on a Mac, where it goes in Applications

Thanks,

Carl