Re: samples not complete

[John Mandereau]

On 2008/11/24 14:00 +0100, Heinz Widmer wrote:
> 1. The Examples (Samples) are not complete. For example the horn Konzert 
> Nr. 3 in Es Dur is not complete. There is only a main file, but the four 
> included files are missing. So it's not possible to verify these pieces. 
> I'd like to use this layout for another (similar) piece that I'd like to 
> transpose, but like this it's more difficult to use it as a start.

I just fixed this, the fix will appear in next release.


> 2. there seems to be a confusion with Versions in these Files

What do you mean exactly?  The versions of .ly examples are not always
last LilyPond version, but as the syntax doesn't change every release,
this is fair.


> 3. It's not "perfectly nice" if you click on a link called Examples and 
> you get a page called samples.

I prefer "Examples".  Any other thoughts?


> 4. Make easier examples.   It's nice to see and quite impressive, that 
> you can do things like the DEMO, but I'd like to have very simple 
> starters.

Then see the templates and read "3.4 Extending the templates" in the
Learning Manual.


>  I think most people that would like to start to use lilipond 
> would appreciate, if there were many complete small start pieces 
> present. The snipplet repositoryy is a nice idea. But I think it's not 
> so important for most starters to know you do +++ very complicated 
> things +++.  But also small starting examples would be appreciated.
> I have now one, but i think it's not in the way as probably you would do 
> it.

If you can provide us such examples with descriptions, we'll be happy to
add them to LSR, and maybe to the docs if they can easily fit in one
existing section.


> { 5. I miss most a funktion that works like.  "Fit this music nicely on 
> n page(s)"}

Fitting music on fewer pages requires a compromise between margins,
global font size, systems count, between-system-padding,
between-system-space and other layout properties; as this issue is a
matter of taste and highly depends on the music in the score, it's
difficult to write a function that takes less arguments than all those
parameters, and yet which gives a result better than what you can
achieve by hand and trial-and-error.

Best,
John