Re: Website: Provide LilyPond source together with the example output

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> 2011/8/24 Štěpán Němec <address@hidden>:
>>
>> It's great there are various examples at
>>
>>  http://lilypond.org/examples.html
>>
>> but the fact that there are _only_ the outputs without the corresponding
>> LilyPond source is somewhat anticlimactic.
>>
>> I sure am not the only one who naturally goes "Wow, how was _this_
>> done?" when looking at (some of) the examples.
>
> I asked about these examples some time ago and the answer was that the
> source code is hidden on purpose.  You should be able to find
> something about that in e-mail archives.
> Of course you can find source files in git
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=tree;f=Documentation/web/ly-examples;hb=HEAD
>

I agree that this is anticlimactic.  Personally, what I would like to
see is having a small source code extract displayed on mouse-over
corresponding to the displayed element.  We have this information
available inside of Lilypond (and use it in PDF for source navigation),
the question would be how to get it out to image maps.  Showing the
whole humongous source is likely to be a turn-off.  Seeing a small
source window for individual constructs on demand may be quite more
educating, entertaining and reassuring.

> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1834 might be
> invalid then.

Hm.

-- 
David Kastrup