Re: Updating the website besides the Documentation?

[Till Rettig]

Valentin Villenave wrote:
> a few days ago, I posted a link to
> http://lilypond.org/web/about/automated-engraving/benchmarking.html
> which made me realize that the static pages visitors are most likely
> to visit when then don't know LilyPond, are realized with very old
> versions of Lily: 1.4, 1.8 -- the most recent being 2.1 in
> http://lilypond.org/web/about/automated-engraving/schubert
>   
I saw this also some time ago when I tried to figure out how to make 
these examples translateble.
> LilyPond has evolved a lot, and maybe the output is better now? 
For the Schubert I did some updates with the current "centered dynamics" 
piano template, or at least
then some month ago. It was not really good because the new spacing 
mechanism placed the dynamics
on the barlines. Otherwise: the benchmarking tells about trying to 
follow the original as close as possible.
In the current version, though, it looks again more different from the 
original text than in the version
it is displayed on the webpage. How is the benchmarking anyways? Do we 
still do this kind of comparement
in recent versions? Or should we just put some third new example (eg for 
the 2.10 vs 2.22 versions) which
shows  the improvements between those releases?
> Should
> we consider updating the benchmarks page, or creating a new one (with
> comparisons to recent Sibelius or Finale versions, for instance)? Or
> maybe we could (if a few guys have some time to do it) eventually
> create a few more pages, including the "features page" which was
> planned on http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/feature-page
>   
Comparence to new programs should be good, Sibelius has improved a lot 
(eg included the spacing mechanism)
but feta is just much much better!
> Is this a good idea or a waste of time? -- could be both :)
>   
I might see to put some time into it after updating the translation, but 
rather only in autumn/winter.

Greetings
Till