Re: Web: Download: Add introductory text (issue 40510046)

[David Kastrup]

Paul Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's how I would reword the warning to make it as concrete and simple as
> possible:
>
> Note: With LilyPond you write and edit music by typing text with your
> keyboard, not by dragging notes around with a mouse.

It's not just simple, but wrong.  The point is exactly that you _don't_
do this with LilyPond, but that you need a different application for
that.

> Before downloading, please read about LilyPond's Text input.

Still won't prepare me that LilyPond has no means to write and edit
music.

> As compared with the current:
>
> Note: LilyPond is a text-based music engraver; it is more similar to a
> programming language than a graphical score editing program. Before
> downloading LilyPond, please read about our Text input. 

Which is not helping much.  It prepares me for an IDE like Visual C++
or, uh, Frescobaldi.

Not for a command line application.

-- 
David Kastrup