[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which I now see is for 2.8 even though I was running 2.6. So just off the bat,
maybe there should be a pointer (link) to the various versions of the documentation.
Because it's only now that I 1st realize the documentation wasn't actually
intended
for me.
What, like this?
http://lilypond.org/web/documentation
If you're complaining about scattered docs, I generally suggest looking
at the latest ones, since I don't update the docs for 2.6 any more.
But having used this index in an effort to learn the Lily code I have found in
almost
every case there is not enough information there to get the job actually done.
For example the very first thing (actually 2nd) is scheme tutorial..
For the purpose of this discussion, I'm only talking about the latest
online docs, 2.9.10.
- scheme tutorial is tucked away in appendix B.
But in all honesty it's almost all Greek to me, particularly when the first
think
I might want to do is put the title on a piece.
- tutorial, 2.15 adding titles. How is that hard to find?
- main docs, 10.2.1 creating titles.
- index, "title" -> 10.2.1.
Here is a basic template for for a Lilycode Lead Sheet:
- templates are appendix D.
To be frank the documentation just isn't simple enough. There is far too much
stuff
to wade through to just enter the name of a piece, and more over as a computer
program,
Lilypond isn't exactly expeditious.
That's why we have a tutorial. Do you have any suggestions as to how to
modify the tutorial?
I would think that you would start out with a single melody, then go to a duet
or
simple piano piece, and finally an orchestral score. Figured bass would be a
separate
categories
... so, like the current templates in appendix D?
Whatever the case, documentation for getting started needs to be based on very
useful
simplistic, but complete templates that have most of the elements of standard
music
composition and notation. I'm not really interested in how to deal with 7/10
time
or multiple colored instrumental lines on a single staff. I would rather just
like to get 4/4 time when I specify it. Just (Keep It Simple Stupid.)
... so, like the current templates and the tutorial?
- Graham
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