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

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/8/24 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
> "Štěpán Němec" <address@hidden> wrote in message
> news: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.
>
>
> There are 2 practical problems with doing this.  The first is that these
> examples are all small extracts of much bigger pieces - they are reduced to
> a single line simply to illustrate what's possible and are displayed on the
> examples page as png files which have been manipulated by an image processor
> to get them to the size they are.  To provide a link to lilypond code that
> produces the examples as they are would require quite a bit of work in
> cutting down the much larger scores.
>
> The second is that, as examples of the complexity of score that can be
> produced, then I have no doubt that some of them have quite complex tweaks
> (albeit I've not read them to check).  Showing this to a beginner would
> likely scare them off even bothering to download the source.   In contrast,
> starting at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/index.html
> is designed to lead beginners in gently.  I would also make the point that
> if a beginner browses a little further, they will get to
> http://lilypond.org/text-input.html which is even simpler.

+1

cheers,
Janek