Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

[John Mandereau]

[CCing back to the list...]
Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan wrote:
> Le 5 déc. 06 à 23:29, John Mandereau a écrit :
> > It's easy to start a new wiki, a new documentation, a new whatever,  
> > but
> > it's much harder to develop it on a long timescale.
> >
> > Before reinventing the wheel, [...]
> 
> I have a different point of view. You cannot write something that  
> fits everybody, some people understand things explained in a way,  
> some others in another way.
> 
> There multiplicity of the handbooks is considered a a good thing for  
> schoolbooks, and you find several different manuals on a lot of  
> topics (history, programming, foreign languages etc.), and you can / 
> choose/ the one that fits the way you understand things. I do not  
> think this is reinventing the wheel.

Agreed. I've really had a totalitarian point of view. To be more
positive, I'd like all these "tutorial introductions" to LilyPond to be
referenced in the "Resources links" on lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org, and
that some ideas from these pages could be reused to improve the official
tutorial. That's more easy to say than to do, of course.

Reinventing the wheel doesn't really apply to tuorials, because it's
pedagogical documentation, and there can be a lot of different
pedagogical points of view. My criticism about "reinventing the wheel"
should rather have applied to the reference manual and the ly snippets:
imho it's more important to try to centralize them than the tutorials.

Best regards,
-- 
John Mandereau <address@hidden>