On Friday 20 May 2005 18.04, Stephen wrote: > >Have you read some LaTeX manuals? > > > Yes, I think reading a LaTex manual might help me understand Lilypond a > little better in other ways too. I know C++ and studied Lisp a little; Tex > is the third rail.
I think he rather referred to the philosophy behind LaTeX. LaTeX is not required by lilypond 2.5 and later, instead postscript/pdf is generated directly. > But as a windows user, I just downloaded tetex-src, tetex-texmf, and > texinfo on which Lilypond is based. I made an abortive attempt to compile > Lilypond on windows using msys and decided my time would be better spent > learning how to use Lilypond rather than compiling it. Is the LaTex manual > in the tetex sources or is that something else? What is the difference > between Tex and LaTex? > > >I think that's what the docs need the most (that would probably be > > clarifying the > "global issues" chapter), but because I'm a neat freak.> > > Yes, it takes someone like you to edit the documentation. Editing is all > about being detail oriented, which is a good thing if you choose the right > task as you have. Eventually, you will get to all of it. I think every > detail in the documentation is important, because a newbie who is trying to > understand Lilypond for the first time will tend to read into things a > little too much in an attempt to understand. The early chapters are > especially important because once someone has gotten into the manual a > certain distance, you can assume he is not a newbie anymore. > > Right now, I am stuck on 'Internal music representation'. I don't think it > is as clear as it could be. If I knew for sure, then I'd understand it and > I wouldn't need anyone to clarity it for me. So if anyone who is > knowedgeable agrees that it could be clearer, please do. I could be wrong, > I am sure if I just plugged away and read the whole chapter, I would > understand it. I can agree that the documentation is far from perfect for those who want to become Gurus. I guess that's one reason why we are looking for an Implementation Documenter: http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/implementation-documenter Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
