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 <karlinh...@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 >