Re: Proposal for "Getting Help" page for LilyPond web site

[Till Rettig]

Carl D. Sorensen schrieb:

Ok, so how do I do so?  Where does the website code reside?
  

It's maybe easiest to get it from git:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=summary

go down the page an change to the web branch (under "heads"). Just click on the small "tree" link right of the bold "web" and you will get to the repository. You can also check it out with git...
You will notice that the files here are "barebone", i.e. don't have the header- and footer fields which get added only on compilation. So what I meant was you could just write this actual content code, maybe with a table or something --
but actually already the plain text with links would be something that could be easily turned into a web page.

Till

Carl


On 11/27/08 12:46 PM, "Till Rettig" <address@hidden> wrote:

  

Carl D. Sorensen schrieb:
    

The Getting Help page would have:

1) A statement saying that "LilyPond does not have a graphical interface",
and an embedded link to the crash course.

2) A statement saying that "The first thing you should do is read the
Learning Manual", with an embedded link to the tutorial part of the Learning
Manual.

3) A statement saying "Review the FAQ's and look at the wiki", with embedded
links to both the FAQ and the wiki.

4) A statement saying "There's a user mailing list available.  Start by
searching the archives (with an embedded link).  If you can't find an answer
in the archives, post your question to the list.  Before you post, please
review the suggestions for asking good questions." with embedded links to
both the user list email and to
<http://www.gerv.net/hacking/how-to-ask-good-questions/>

5) A statement saying "If you think you've found a bug, you'll want to
report in on the bug-lilypond mailing list." and a link to the current bug
reporting page <http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/bugs>.

I think such a page would be helpful to new users as a single point of
contact.

I'd be happy to help with this.
 
      

Great stuff, this is maybe going further than the GDP project -- and a
general overhauling of the web pages is planed after GDP -- but I would
just say: go ahead, put something up with plain html code (I don't
remember which version is in use) and Jan or John might just implement
it into the existing page interface.

Greetings
Till
    

Thanks,

Carl



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