On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:30:43 +0200 "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I must note however that I strongly disagree with the approach "you > must read the manual first". Honestly, when you buy an house-hold > appliance you first read the manual? I doubt. For making the first > cup of coffee you won't read the manual. Later, when you want to make > different kinds of exotic coffees you will. 1) lilypond is not a house-hold program. Most users (ie window people) will be too scared by text input to even *think* about using lilypond. My mother, for example. 2) People don't buy lilypond. It's Free software. 3) You can't do *anything* in lilypond without reading the tutorial at least. > Perhaps it's because of my software developer experience, but I am > strongly and seriously against abbreviations and acronyms in any > case. Reading and interpreting abbreviated text needs much more > overhead than what you gain during write time. Not to mention better > text editors where you can define abbreviations thus eliminating > write time overhead. Are you volunteering to spend 100 hours over the next year responding to all the RTFM questions? Not all the *interesting* emails on -user; just all the stupid "Q: how can I get a < mark under a few notes? A: you read the `dynamics' section of the docs." questions. Having spent well over a hundred hours on such idiodicies in the past four years, I have no patience left for them. Cheers, - Graham PS lest anybody say "maybe we should get a support team of non-experts who have the energy/interest in politely explaining/answering beginner questions", I'll point out that I made a few attempts to recruit such people last Spring. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user