RE: website: why do you use lilypond?

[Nick Payne]

The best introduction to Lilypond that I have seen is at
http://www.eugenecormier.com/pdfs/lilypond-guide.pdf. It's what I used when
getting started with Lilypond. By comparison, the manuals are a bit
daunting.

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Graham Percival
> Sent: Saturday, 1 August 2009 11:14 PM
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> Subject: website: why do you use lilypond?
> 
> Work on the actual content of the website seems to have hit a
> brick wall.  I'm not very happy about this, especially since some
> of the gaps are easy to fill.  (*nobody* knows *anything* about
> the non-English forums for discussing lilypond?  really?!?)
> 
> 
> Anyway, I'm declaring the next week to be Introduction week.
> Pretend that you don't know what lilypond is.  Pretend that you
> manage to navigate the scary main page in order to get to the
> Introduction page.
> 
> http://lilypond.org/~graham/Introduction.html
> 
> Consider two questions:
> 1.  Would these 7 web pages (everything under Introduction)
> convince you to give lilypond a try?
> 2.  If you used lilypond for a short time (say, 1-3 hours), would
> you regret doing so?  I mean, do the current Introduction webpages
> gloss over any problems?  Would you feel cheated or mislead?
> I suppose we could take the view that it's advertizing, and thus
> we should *try* to trick people, but I really dislike this aspect
> of modern society.  If somebody wouldn't be happy with lilypond,
> then let's try to make sure they realize that before they try it.
> 
> Pretty much everybody on this list uses lilypond, and there must
> be *some* features or reasons you use it.  So answering #1 should
> be easy.
> 
> 
> Also, can you improve any examples?  I mean, the Goyescas /
> Granados example and Cary / Baca examples look *wicked awesome*.
> In contrast, the tablature example bores me to tears, the vocal
> music example is probably missing a / accent in "trou-ve", etc.
> 
> 
> 
> Patrick Schmidt is in charge of writing texinfo and creating
> patches for any consensus that's reached in this discussion.
> Jonathan is in charge of the Examples, and retains overall
> editorial say over the entire Introduction section.  I want to go
> off and work on other stuff for a week, then return and find a
> wonderful, finished, translator-ready, Introduction section.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham
> 
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