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Re: Website down?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Website down? |
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Wed, 04 Nov 2015 01:00:55 +0100 |
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Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
> On 03.11.2015 23:54, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On 03.11.2015 21:56, Edward Ardzinski wrote:
>>>> I haven't been able to reach http://www.lilypond.org in a few days...
>>> I’m happy to be largely independent of the website (having installed
>>> the docs locally), since downtime is quite unfortunately frequent…
>> It's worth pointing out that installing the info docs with images
>> (running "make info" which is really expensive before running "sudo make
>> install") is an excellent resource when you are using Emacs as your Info
>> reader. I don't know any other Info reader supporting images
>> gracefully, though. The standalone Info reader should still be useful
>> for finding stuff fast with the search and index lookup commands.
>>
>
> I read it in HTML, installing from (or rather through) the .sh binary…
> no need to use make and emacs :-)
HTML is quite clumsier for navigation and indexing. I tend to find
information in Emacs' info reader (mainly using the index, sometimes
using plain text search), then I cut and paste a recognizable sentence
into a web search engine in order find the online variant in order to
refer people to it.
--
David Kastrup
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