Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

[Trevor Bača]

On 8/30/07, Trevor Bača <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 8/30/07, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > > Graham Percival escreveu:
> > >
> > >
> > >> ... hmm, I might see a use for that.  We could have one really fancy
> > >> example, *without* input code, in the "root" node of each section.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I concur with this. Some 'real' examples also help give users an idea what
> > > some features (eg. fatText) could be used for.
> > >
> > Ok, let's test this out.  I'm willing to allocate up to four
> > staffs-systems for sexy examples.  (ie 4 one-staff systems, 2 two-staff
> > systems)   If necessary I suppose we could make these examples smaller
> > to allow more space... but let's go with these limits for now.
> > Basically, the examples are going above the menu for each section, but
> > I'd still like to see the top of the menu when I look at each section in
> > the html.
> >
> >
> > Trevor, could you come up with an example(s) for Text?  You could either
> > make the Debussy example longer, or have the Debussy and some other
> > stuff, or whatever.  Remember that line lengths in the manual are
> > shorter than normal line lenghts.
>
> Sure, I'd be happy to. (And if winds up being too complicated, then
> that's certainly OK; just keep me in check!)
>
> If I'm reading right then I think you're thinking of like a "headword"
> example above each section in the manual? So there would be 1 fancy
> example for 8.1.1, another fancy example for 8.1.2, and a third for
> 8.1.3, and so on?
>
> Cool. I can throw some time at that :-) Graham, if you have a set of
> sections in mind that you'd like me to try first, just let me know.
> Otherwise, I'll just pick a couple of my favorite sections and start
> with those for you to critique.

In fact, glancing at the manual sections now, it looks like chapter 8
is as good a place to start as any. I'll take a stab at 8.1.1 through
8.1.11 tomorrow, probably skipping over 8.1.7 ...



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Trevor Bača
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