Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thank you all for your commentary on my question.

I think there are some very nice responses here that give me some perspective.

What even makes it more difficult is when I don't even know what
something is called at all (no terminology) and/or when I have no clue
how to succinctly describe what it is that I don't know.  For example,
the tremolo; I recognized the graphic but I had no way to search for
it by appearance, only read every line of the documentation until I
find it and the "ah ha".

  I'm making no complaint about the quality of the documentation; I
think it is excellent.

In addition, the developers and those who assist on this list are
awesome people.

I need to ponder these responses further to figure out what I can do
not only to further my Lilypond education but also try to give back to
the community.

Thank you,
Ken

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 6:11 AM Karlin High <karlinhigh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/18/2022 5:48 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> > Every layman seems to have a
> > different 'layman's term' for things, some of which are true
> > alternatives and some of which are just plain wrong.
>
> Doing residential tech support, I will never forget the man who referred
> to the desktop background picture as "the screen saver." Or the lady,
> may she rest in peace, whose term for all forms of email was "Outlook
> Express."
>
> > I don't think, as you say, your question is dumb, and in no way intend
> > to diminish it with my comments. I just think this is what I call a
> > 'hard problem.'
>
> I agree, and appreciate the effort you put into writing that.
>
> I second Jean Abou Samra's motion for expanding the index if it seems
> good to so so.
>
> Lilypond.org is hosted on a Google service, I believe? Are there ways to
> see what search terms people use to arrive at given documentation resources?
>
> If there are recognizable patterns, like there's this one word people
> follow over and over again to a manual page mostly using unlike terms,
> maybe that could be seen as a call to add an index entry.
> --
> Karlin High
> Missouri, USA
>