Re: GDP - Learning Manuall Songs section

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:

> Most of the _concepts_ associated with lyrics need to be
> introduced in the Learning Manual, as they are pretty well
> all needed whenever lyrics need to be set.  But only the
> minimum number of technicalities should be covered; all
> alternative methods and all tweaks should remain in the new
> Notation Reference and simply referenced.

What I would like to see somewhere in the documentation, perhaps
in the learning manual, perhaps in the reference, is an overview
of the different basic options, to help readers get the big picture
before going into any detail. For the particular case of lyrics, I 
would like to see the following hierarchy of options shown

- Attach the lyrics to some line of music
 * \addlyrics (point out that it's only useful in very simple
   settings)
 * \lyricsto
- Explicitly specify the duration of each syllable

For each of these options, such an overview would contain one simple
example and references to other sections that contain more details.

Before the discussion about GDP, my idea was that such an overview
would perhaps be most suited as an introductory subsection to the 
section on lyrics in the reference manual, but following Graham's
intentions with GDP, it might fit better into the learning manual.

  /Mats