Graham Percival wrote on 08 February 2008 19:54 > > I'd like to draw attention to the Learning > Manual, chapters 3 > Fundamental concepts and 4 Tweaks. > > - if you're a new user, PLEASE read these in > detail. There's a lot of > very helpful information in there. In addition, > it should all be > understandable -- if you start at LM 2 Tutorial > and read to the end of LM 4,
Well, perhaps to the end of 4.5. I haven't started on 4.6 yet, although there is some old material there. >you should be able to understand > everything. LM 3 and LM 4 are quite hard going for anyone fairly new to LilyPond. Normally these sections would be best deferred until you were comfortable with everything in LM 2, and had come across some problems you couldn't solve easily. > If you can't, we > consider it a bug in the documentation. :) > > - if you're an advanced user and haven't done so > already, please skim > through this material. The lilypond docs are > famously written by > people who don't know what they're talking > about[1], so we really need > knowledgeable users to verify what we write. > > [1] No insult to Trevor Daniels; he's done an > amazing job of the LM. > But he had to learn each subject from scratch in > order to write the > docs, so there's no guarantee that he covered > everything. or that what he has written is correct ;) > > Latest GDP docs > http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/ > > (although these are almost identical to the > 2.11.39 docs at the > moment) > > Cheers, > - Graham > Trevor D _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user