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Re: Gvim point and click guide
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Andrew Bernard |
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Re: Gvim point and click guide |
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Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:18:31 +1100 |
Hi Carl,
Some interlineated comments.
Should I just make this a tutorial on Scores of Beauty? But it seems very
integral to lilypond to me, and many people stumble over this.
Andrew
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 11:48, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 2/26/19, 4:32 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Andrew Bernard"
> <address@hidden on behalf of
> address@hidden> wrote:
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> There's been a lot of long discussion about how to get gvim going with
> point and click lately. I finally achieved this, but found the NR
> missing
> important information, and to be ever so slightly in error. To that, I
> wrote a fully fleshed out howto page on what to do. I posted it to the
> user
> group, with not a sniff of interest. I believe what I wrote would be a
> worthwhile contribution to the NR in this area.
>
> How does one go about submitting this to the documentation team?
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> Right now, there isn't a documentation team. We're running very
> short-handed.
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> I'd be willing to guide you to prepare a patch for submission, if you'd be
> willing to learn the steps.
>
> Happy to do so.
I'm not sure exactly how you envision this going into the documentation.
> You suggest the NR, but you don't say where in the NR. All of the
> information I am aware of on configuring LilyPond with vim is found in the
> Usage manual, not the Notation Reference. But your information is much
> more tutorial in form than is Usage. So I'd like to hear where you think
> it should go.
>
> A slip of the keyboard. I mean the section in the Usage documentation.
It will be easier to get a patch approved if you can have it work within
> the existing framework, rather than trying to completely remake the
> framework.
>
> I never intended to change the framework, just looking for a way to slot
this in.
In reviewing your tutorial, I noticed that you have installed lilypond in
> your home directory, rather than in /usr/local. That may be why you see
> the error message and others do not, but I am just guessing; I don't have
> an Ubuntu 18 setup.
>
> No, I am aware of that. By default the downloadable installs into $HOME,
does it not?
Thanks,
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> Carl
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