Re: Web: home page: add examples/images, reduce news to headlines (issue 306350043 by address@hidden)

[Paul]

On 09/13/2016 09:52 AM, Phil Holmes wrote:

> > At this point it would probably be simplest to just inline the 
> > lilypond code for this example on the home page, like it is done in 
> > the essay. (Probably putting it in an include file to avoid 
> > duplication.)  We wouldn't get "click to enlarge" that way (which was 
> > the point of using the examples mechanisms) but maybe that's not 
> > needed on the home page and/or could be a future enhancement.
>
> I don't think you can do that.  The reason for all the odd stuff with 
> the image files is that the server we host lilypond on does not use 
> lilypond to make the website - so all images must be pre-created to 
> allow the website itself to be remade.  Note that much of the website 
> it really made using make doc during a Gub run, but some of it (the 
> homepage and the \web stuff) is made with make website and requires no 
> upload.  The server has cron jobs that pull git and run make website.

Ah, ok...  hmm...  so it sounds like we would need to do this home page 
example like the other website images then.  (Assuming we're not using 
the examples scripts because of the -dpreview issue.)

-Paul