Re: collatoral damage / regressions

[Alexander Kobel]

Hugh Myers wrote:
> [...] As long as I'm exposing my thinking to the world (at least the
> Lilypond world) another thing that needs to be pointed out to the UC
> (User Community) is that they have a sure and certain value in their
> ability to say that they don't understand a particular piece of
> documentation. [...]

Correct. Which is part of why Graham does even consider to answer many 
requests on -user. It must be really frustrating to invest that much 
time and energy in the docs, and see people a) ignoring it, or b) 
reading and trying to understand it, but not mentioning in their mails 
what (or even better: why) they don't understand it.
The latter case is plainly sad, the second is - well, don't really know, 
since you always assume the first one, and develop some ignorance; but 
it's certainly not helpful from the second type of inquirer to not give 
hints what should be done better, just as you said.

May I remark that a short scan through your mails starting a new thread 
revealed only two pointer to the manuals (in "instantiating voices" and 
"broken link")?
Not that I do any better, I have to admit. (*Writes down note to himself.*)


Cheers,
Alexander