Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2011, 15:19:57 schrieb David Kastrup:
> address@hidden writes:
> > The examples are often too complex and lengthy to be really useful to
> > beginners.
> > As above, they wouldn't work in mouse-over bubbles.
> 
> The mouse-over bubble would show a looking-glass view into the source,
> centered at the corresponding view.

In my eyes, this would defeat the purpose of the examples page. Our message to 
newcomers there is "Look, how beautiful LilyPond scores can be".
If we force a mouse-over bubble with lilypond code on every visitor, then the 
message becomes "You can do pretty scores, but just look how terribly 
complicated and uncomprehensible it is to write a score with lilypond". Will 
that incite any non-programmer to use lilypond?

The main purpose of the examples page is to show off beautiful engravings with 
LilyPond. It is aimed at people who have never seen or used lilypond. We 
really don't want to show code there -- that what the LM / NR is for. However, 
IF some lilypond user wants to see the code for the examples, it should be 
easier to get it than using git to check it out from the source code.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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