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

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> 2011/8/24 Štěpán Němec <address@hidden>:
>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:59:31 +0200
>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> That'd be one way. Another way would be to make the images behave just
>> the same as in the tutorial -- link to the text file with the source
>> (where the relevant portion is delimited with "% begin ly-snippet" or
>> something like that, which would take care of the "turn-off" issue).
>>
>> Also, I'm not sure some of the examples could reasonably fit into a
>> mouse-over bubble.
>
> I think that David's point was that the scores are too big and complex
> to be shown in their entirety, because they'll scare beginners.  I
> think he suggests that the "mouse-over bubble" would show only a small
> part of the code, directly relevant the the object pointed to.

That sounds likely to have been his intent, though I am not sure he
thought this through completely.

-- 
David Kastrup