Re: Of snippets and petals

[Graham Percival]

On 30-May-05, at 6:06 PM, Basil Crow wrote:
> I realized that I needed a way to keep track of these small things for 
> myself, so I set up http://lilypetals.basilcrow.com/ -- a snippets 
> system using the same code that powers TextSnippets (I called my 
> Snippets install "LilyPetals" just for fun). But the primary purpose 
> of a thing like Snippets is to help other people who need to do 
> something and need to find that same "snippet." I'd love it if 
> LilyPond were to have a similar official "snippets" site that users 
> could be encouraged to post to. Although I just have saved one to my 
> own Snippets install, sites like TextSnippets have grown to 50 
> snippets in a few days (and become immensely helpful). What do the 
> developers think of something like this?

Thanks for setting it up!  It's great to see new users getting involved 
to help.
As it happens, we have a snippet system already,
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/
but I confess it doesn't seem to be well advertised.  I'll add a bunch 
of links.

Cheers,
- Graham Percival, LilyPond Documentation Editor