Am 25.06.2015 um 08:02 schrieb Jacques Menu: > Hello Urs, > > Great idea! > > I can contribute with contents such as the attached.
You mean with directions how to achieve such material? That would be fine, just make a suggestion how to fit it in an outline (doesn't matter if it would still be out of context). Urs > > JM > > >> Le 24 juin 2015 à 21:41, Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org >> <mailto:u...@openlilylib.org>> a écrit : >> >> Hello fellow LilyPonders, >> >> recently Federico raised my attention by pointing out the release of a >> new book on "Mastering MuseScore". After some discussion, consideration >> and poking around I decided to lay the foundation for a new community >> book about a) LilyPond and b) the "plain text" complex with LilyPond, >> LaTeX and Git. >> >> Actually it's not a new idea but one that was already in the back of my >> mind when I started the "openLilyLib tutorials" and the respective type >> of posts on Scores of Beauty. There always was the wish to gather this >> sort of information to a more or less coherent entity like a book. >> >> So what I have by now is not "presentable" but it's in a state that I >> can (and have to) announce it in the form of a "call for contribution". >> >> The idea of the "book" is to focus on those topics that the mailing list >> reveals to be regular stumbling blocks for new (or sometimes also >> seasoned) users. We want to assist them by gently going into great depth >> where the official documentation has to remain concise and >> reference-like. What I'm most interested in personally is that step from >> the needs of occasional or regular users to the more involved but also >> more exciting things, talking about aspects like getting into the spirit >> of using Scheme, or best practice suggestions to organize larger projects. >> >> For quite some time this "book" will have more empty than written pages, >> and it doesn't have to aim at becoming a coherent "textbook". But I hope >> that we may achieve something that is comprehensive in the sense that it >> helps people diving more deeply in the LilyPond world. >> >> The book is authored in Markdown using GitBook >> (https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook), a Node.js application that >> builds the book as a statically served HTML site. >> The official URL (where you can already have a first glimpse) is >> http://book.openlilylib.org, and the development repository is at >> https://git.ursliska.de/openlilylib/book. >> There is another location where unmerged branches will be automatically >> built to when pushed, for example >> http://bookbranches.openlilylib.org/scheme-tutorials. >> It will be possible to edit the pages online or locally, with the local >> way being somewhat more flexible but requiring the installation of a few >> tools and dependencies. >> >> Now I'm asking for contribution in several fields: >> 1) >> Improving the infrastructure and appearance. The most urgent issue is >> adding a CSS stylesheet for the table of contents. The regular TOC is >> always expanded, and it is clear that the TOC of that book will soon >> become inacceptably long. So we need a foldable/expandable navigation >> bar where initially most items are folded. >> Probably there's room for other improvments in the styling of the book, >> but that's not that urgent. >> There are other things on the functionality side where I'd be happy not >> to be alone with. These would involve some Node.js, Python and bash >> programming. >> >> 2) >> General discussion about potential contents, i.e. working on the outline >> of un-written chapters >> >> 3) >> Content contribution. One thing that might be attractive to start with >> is integrating existing posts from Scores of Beauty. This may be trivial >> in some cases, in other cases one has to do significant rearrangements. >> >> As development and deployment take place on my personal server I can't >> fully open up the access, which means that anyone who wants to >> contribute has to ask me explicitly for an account. >> >> Best wishes >> Urs >> >> -- >> Urs Liska >> www.openlilylib.org <http://www.openlilylib.org> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user