On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 01:34:15PM +0100, james bailey wrote: > 2008/11/16, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Read the bloody tutorial and LM 3. Particularly the "syntax of a > > lilypond file". > > Seriously, Graham, if you can't be nice and fuzzy, don't respond.
In general I do that. But Chip had asked four questions already, and received three answers from Jonathan, and was still quite lost. Then I replied, and his next email ended with "Thanks for pointing me to the correct reference, even though you didn't need to be so bloody rude about it." Would people rather get "rude + accurate" responses, or "warm + fuzzy + not solving the problem" responses? I personally would *much* rather get the former. > And, I know it makes complete sense to you, but a normal person would > never think to look at documentation for a version other than the one > they're using. No, it doesn't make sense. That's why I take every opportunity to suggest the 2.11 docs on the mailist, and can't wait for 2.12 to be out. If the initial response to his question was "read the 2.11 docs about transposition and file syntax", the whole discussion would have been over in 2 or 3 emails. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
