-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 15:06:13 -0000 "Phil Burfitt" <phil.burf...@talktalk.net> wrote:
> So often people after buying a new shiny thingy, open the box, plug > it in, and only after numerous failed attempts to get it to work, > decide to read the manual Well they'd hit the same wall with Latex, it doesn't "do" anything by default, yet still it's the undisputed standard for scientific typesetting. I'd say that lilypond is more or less as good as Latex (which is not perfect, it *is* rather messy at times), the great difference is there is much more interest in Latex so there is excellent documentation and a lot of community activity. Now, one could make the argument that the crowd Lilypond has to appeal to (musicians) is in general far less accostumed to command line programs rather then Latex's crowd (scientist); I'd argue back that Lilypond doesn't really "have to appeal" to someone who doesn't see the advantages of WYSIWYM vs. WYSIWYG and doesn't take the time to learn it. I mean, lilypond is text-editor + command-line by design, you don't really get around these programs without reading docs (and you shouldn't try to make it easy). So I think "improving lilypond's usability" should boil down to: 1) better language functionality (personally I haven't used lilypond all that much so I can't really point out any show-stopper there) 2) better docs and nothing else my 2 cents, cheers renato -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSnLowAAoJEBz6xFdttjrf7EMIAIEuDvT36WaQ8MwA60TqinFK rIngCy9PfVVqVYKS/YgiP3DkV5/GWapEx36HKJkJmZrmYL46Xfs4i0G1Rw+3CqIi 3zOqA8kg4N0iQvrfbuzf7f3GQENN26lFdLVT2RCtm8qMnA+GT9JfzCavXTZPNdvQ 8/PXoAaHE1AAZFcFmTI63+WMHfGGKexLCvlKbLNRCRUojJAKNAjtHg+uXIbDkuRM dzY6oWKPBdkPGn5C2Bvn60MfuolC7/k4EtvvGFNPqeVETYHY+Vzl5LMe86zVuBKX OlH0p9AHxeav21uRPLvkZdNDRjZYk5CyEFz2jwGstax9Dg2nir+waMJzDUtGcOo= =BMq3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
