> 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 think you are looking for the 'Visual LilyPond Grob Index': https://github.com/joram-berger/visualindex This gives you the name of the grob, which you can then use for a search in the Notation Reference. Eventually this will become part of the LilyPond documentation. Werner
