Re: Helping with the documentation

[Graham Percival]

On 15-Apr-06, at 5:41 PM, David Feuer wrote:

> On 4/15/06, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Just to completely clarify, my comment about making a tarball 
> > available
> > was aimed at people working on the docs, but who are not comfortable
> > compiling the docs from CVS.
>
> I think it'd be great to make a tarball available that's almost
> compiled, but not quite.  That is, it has everything complete but
> instead of PNGs has Postscript fragments, and a makefile to run them
> all through Ghostscript.  In fact... since LilyPond comes with
> GhostScript, why not distribute the docs as a self-extracting
> executable that does this?

Err... this is probably possible.  Although we might also need texinfo, 
and ImageMagick, and... well, why not simply give people access to CVS? 
 If you have the right versions of software installed, it's easy to 
compile the docs.  That's how I do it -- I don't build lilypond myself; 
I use GUB.  If you're curious about how this works, I could post 
instructions.

I'm not certain what problem this is trying to solve, though.

Cheers,
- Graham