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Re: new website: second draft
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Federico Bruni |
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Re: new website: second draft |
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Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:08:13 +0200 |
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Tim McNamara wrote:
As a recent newbie, please allow me to offer a little feedback on this:
the crash course is overwhelming. IMHO the newbie crashes into the
bottom the the abrupt and nearly vertical learning curve presented
there. I tried it back in the 2.10 days and didn't come back to try
again until 2.12. I wonder how many other newbies we have lost in the
same way. LilyPond's input method looks like computer programming and
not music, and most musicians are not computer programmers. So IMHO we
have to find ways to ease them into it and not scare them off.
I'm a recent newbie as well..
I don't think the crash course is overwhelming: it's concise, clear
and effective.
What is missing there, IMO, is a sort of *short demo/video tutorial*.
This is the way most of people learn using programs today (or at least
get acquainted with).
The text crash course says: "Hey man, lilypond is not that easy: no
GUI, you'll have to learn a new syntax".
The video demo could add: "Don't worry, you can see here that is not
so difficult".
When I started, I was encouraged by the demos provided by LilypondTool
website:
http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/demo.html
One more thing: why don't you add *tablature support* in the features?
A couple of years ago I came across Lilypond but I thought it did not
support tablatures, so I went away because I really need it.
When was the tablature support added?
Cheers,
Federico
Re: new website: second draft, Jonathan Kulp, 2009/06/24
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