Re: LilyPond editing environments

[Carl Peterson]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Carl Peterson <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

Would a section "Online Tools" better be placed between the "full-fledged" editors (Frescobaldi/Denemo) and "Text editors" or after the "Text editors".

I think we could consider not only score editors but also tools like
- http://scalematcher.adamspiers.org/
or
- a tool for harmonic analysis someone announced just recently and which I unfortunately don't find right now.

Urs

I think here you're starting to cross the line from editors/tools (things that help you use and work with LilyPond) into more of a "Gallery" (things that people have done with LilyPond). Scale Matcher is an interesting, "This is what someone has done with LilyPond" (similar to "Pondings"). The difference between it and Lilybin is that Lilybin is an online editing environment that compiles whatever the user wants. Scale Matcher only does one thing through a user interface.

To clarify on this point, I would separate "Gallery" items into a separate page from anything related to installing/using LilyPond. This is fairly normal and I would want to maintain a clear distinction between things that let you work with LilyPond to do what *you* want, and things that either (a) have no functional use (e.g., postings of LilyPond-engraved works), or (b) are limited-scope utilities (such as Scale Matcher), particularly in the latter case so that someone doesn't go to the site mistakenly thinking they can use it to do x (in spite of clear disclaimers to the contrary).

Carl