Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
Most people (including me) never reads any documentation in the first
place. Starting to use lilypond (or any software) should definitely
work without reading a single word of the manual. People are
especially scared by the followings: making choices and reading
documentation.
Honestly, would you expect any user to be able to do any real-world
typesetting
with LilyPond without reading a single word in the manual? Even though
you have
done a great job in LilyPondTool, I still think there's a huge step
compared to using
a WYSIWYG program like Finale or Sibelius or ... Therefore, my approach has
always been to tell new users right away that they will have to read the
tutorial.
(On the other hand, you probably need to do quite some reading to
produce the
desired layout using these commercial programs as well, but that's may
just be
my prejudices, I don't have any user experience of these programs. I
have played
from a number of ill prepared scores, though).
/Mats
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