On 4/14/06 9:45 AM, "Geoff Horton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So I was thinking of a method to make contibuting to the docs more easy. >> Perhaps it's a good idea to set up a wiki for the docs. > > I'm of two minds about this. The advantages you point out are real, > but I also encounter a lot of frustration with wiki-based docs; for > one thing, there's no very good way to make a quick scan through them > looking for something. That makes answers are even harder to find if > your mind doesn't work the same way as that of the person who wrote > the section in question, or if the answer to your question is covered > in a place completely different from where you expect it to be. I > often find answers just by loading the full-page version of the docs > (off my hard drive, so it's quick), doing a text search for a string, > and looking at the material around hits to see if it looks like I'm in > the right place. Most search engines don't return enough context for > this to work well. > > Geoff > I agree. I have found the most useful way for me to work with Lilypond is to download the documentation tarball and have this installed on my hard drive. I can then easily travel through the User Manual and the Program Reference sections. I would find using a Wiki cumbersome. By the way I would like to thank those who make the Documentation tarball available. This was a big move forward for me as the previous documentation did not include the images or they did not get installed on Mac OS X. This meant that I had to go to the internet and farm the required pages from the Lilypond site. I am sure the tarball is a far better solution. Thanks very much! Walter Hofmeister _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user