Re: GUI

[Owain Sutton]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:01 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:32:50PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> >> >  If you can suggest an improvement, especially in the
> >> >  Introduction pages, please do.
> >> 
> >> LilyPondTool, Frescobaldi, Emacs and Vim are listed under
> >> "Alternate Input."  Since this link is to the right of "Text
> >> Input," the implication is that they are alternatives to text
> >> input, which of course is false: All the information under the
> >> "Text input" link applies to these programs.
> >
> > Hmm.  I'm trying to tie these two together: text input and
> > alternate input are both the same color, and end in "input".
> >
> >> Maybe change "Alternate Input" to "Input software," or "Input
> >> programs," or "Progams, At least One of Which You Will Use to Enter
> >> Your Scores if You At All Value Your Time and Sanity."
> >
> > I'm willing to change the name, but I'm not convinced that any of
> > thsoe are more attractive than "alternate input".  More to the point,
> > the bottom of "text input" tries to direct people there, with the
> > "easier editing environments" stuff.
> 
> "Input aids".
> 
> > Hmm, on second thought, what about calling it "Easier editing"?  That
> > alliterates, so it gets a 20% bonus to its attractiveness. :)
> 
> But it is mostly wrong since the graphical programs usually don't allow
> editing existing input at all, but rather _generate_ or export Lilypond
> input.
> 

'Aids' isn't much better for the layman than 'editor', 'GUI', etc.  How
about 'Other input methods'?