Re: user manual

[Trevor Bača]

On 7/6/06, Juergen Reuter <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Mark Van den Borre wrote:
>
> > Graham,
> >
> > "General improvements to "working on lilypond files", focusing on
> > teaching users how to write files that are easier to update.  Not that
> > it will do any good, since nobody reads the manual anyway."
> >
> > I was not aware that you underestimate the relevance of your work so
> > much. It is a splendid piece of work and very important to the
> > Lilypond user experience.
> >
> > ...
>
> 100% agreed!  At least, I *do* read now and then in the manual, and it's
> now _extremely_ better than, say, 2 or 3 years ago!

Yeah, IMHO, the architecture of (and the quality of writing in) the
manual is one of the real strengths of our project.

I'm just crossing over the 1-year point using lilypond and I still
read and reread the manual all the time; our docs are a key resource.


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Trevor Bača
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