Some users may have read the emails "Leaving: replacements" and and thought "gee, I wish I could help, but ``I don't know enough''". I would like to debunk this myth.
I don't know enough, either! ---------------------------- Neither did I when I began. I was a music composition student, with no experience with unix development tools. No previous experience writing documentation. I'd never used LilyPond to do anything other than string music -- no piano, no vocal music -- and only simply chamber music parts -- no cues, no polymetric stuff, no \overrides. These days, you don't need to know any unix development tools to help with the lilypond docs. And you don't need to know everything about LilyPond to be helpful. In fact, some tasks require *NO* lilypond knowledge _at all_. (ie lilypond-user secretary) And you know what? After three years of being the doc editor, I _still_ don't know how to do piano music, vocal music, or cues. I've learned how to do \overrides, though. I would like to emphasize this. IF I HAD TO WRITE VOCAL MUSIC, I WOULD NEED TO READ THE **TUTORIAL**! I don't even know how to use \lyricAdd, which is the easiest way to do vocal music! And I don't think that anybody would claim that I haven't been useful to the project. So trust me: if you're willing to help, we can find something that's within your abilities. I'm spend all my time writing music, so I don't have time! ---------------------------------------------------------- This is my favorite excuse for not getting involved... and by "favorite", I mean "makes me grind my teeth". If you're a professional composer and use lilypond every day, then IMO you should be the _most_ involved, not the least. I mean, if the heaviest users don't contribute to the project, then who else should? Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user