Cheat sheets and LilyPond documentation [was Re: Clef "treble_8"]

[Noeck]

Hi David,

> Is there a source?  Or is it hand-written SVG?  If we are trying to
> follow the spirit of the GPL, source is defined as "preferred form for
> modification".  For a cobbled-together version, that is tricky to
> define, but we would not want to make it harder than necessary to come
> up with updated versions.

The SVG is the source in the sense "preferred form of modification" – at
least preferred by me :). It is created with Inkscape. I guess it could
be done in LilyPond or TeX or sth else but probably with a similar
amount of complexity (except some text replacement perhaps).
Personally, I would update it via Inkscape (and export to PDF
additionally). The cheat sheet is 8000 lines as SVG (with the line
breaks Inkscape introduces, but you get a feeling). The spacing sheet
3600 lines.

>> Maybe this can be re-evaluated...  An alternative is to add links to
>> to the documentation.
>
> Or from the web page, but then people might have a harder time finding
> it.  We have some diagrams with arrows in our web presence if I am not
> mistaken.  They must have been created in some kind of manner.  Of
> course something fitting well into the Texinfo creation process would be
> nice since we have a lot of output formats for our documentation.

You mean this? http://lilypond.org/text-input.html Well, yes, there
seems to be a place for that. I don’t know the Texinfo stuff enough to
tell if there is a way. For the ly code of the visual index perhaps.

Btw, I appreciate your friendly reaction very much.

Best,
Joram


¹: Inkscape: free vector graphics editor https://inkscape.org