Re: file locations or links in snippets

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Saturday, May 24, 2008 11:12 PM
> On Sat, 24 May 2008 21:31:16 +0100
> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Second, I'd drop the strong bits and simply use four paras like:
> >
> > "If you are using MS Windows (any flavour) and downloaded the
> > standard version of LilyPond from lilypond.org, the directory of
> > interest is C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/."
> >
> > "If you installed LilyPond by using a package manager or by compiling
> > it from source the directory of interest on any system is
> > PREFIX/share/lilypond/X.Y.Z/
> > where ... etc"
>
> IMO it's more clear which material the user should read this way.
> If you're on windows, you don't need to see anything about OSX or
> linux.  I wouldn't mind changing it to a list, but I don't think
> that mere paragraphs are enough.

A list would be fine.  What I disliked was the attempt to construct
a heading from the conditions.  These are better explained in text.

An alternative would be a list for Linux:

@strong{MS Windows}
 ...
@strong{MacOS}
 ...
@strong{Linux}
 - if you installed LilyPond by downloading from lilypond.org ...
 - if you installed LilyPond from your Linux distribution ...

I think I prefer this way - it's really clear to Windows
users that they can ignore the Mac and Linux bits, and there
is no need to mention how they obtained LilyPond, as there is
no choice.   

> Cheers,
> - Graham