Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-07 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 07.01.2008 (12:14), Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: > >> I don't find the \overrides very hard to understand; it's one of the >> very first thing I knew how to achieve in LilyPond (Bertalan's plugin >> LilyPondTool helped me a lot to understand it, though). >> > Well, actually it was wha

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-07 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
I don't find the \overrides very hard to understand; it's one of the very first thing I knew how to achieve in LilyPond (Bertalan's plugin LilyPondTool helped me a lot to understand it, though). Well, actually it was what made me start implementing the plugin: I also wanted to understand \ov

Volunteering with LilyPond 2nd posting

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
The previous discussion got a bit off-topic, so to make this easier to see I'm posting it again. I've updated the list of open jobs and posted it online: http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/lilyjobs.html Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lily

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:21:15 -0500 Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eyolf, > > On Jan 6, 2008, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > example, the problem is not so much knowing what it means -- that > > can be > > looked up quite easily It *can be*. But *I'm* not going to bother. Why

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 09:51:13 -0500 Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > package. The index often lacks entries for my questions. This is, fortunately, the easiest thing to fix. In the docs, index entries are made in the relevant section. So for example, in the "Ambitus" section, we might have som

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:15:34 +0100 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Plus, it includes the whole LilyPond Documentation as well, and > searching for keywords is definitely much easier with this tool than > with the very limited index -- AFAIK only Graham has ever used it ;) No bloo

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 06.01.2008 (14:21), Reilly wrote: > Eyolf, > > On Jan 6, 2008, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Perhaps I misunderstand the purpose of Graham's example question. It's easy: the purpose of ALL of Graham's examples is that THIS TAKES RESOURCES and no matter how good the idea is, someone

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Reilly
Eyolf, On Jan 6, 2008, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: example, the problem is not so much knowing what it means -- that can be looked up quite easily -- but to know (a) what kind of variations does a user expect? does size matter? angle? are different symbols or styles in use, and are

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Reilly
Greetings all: On Jan 6, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: Hopefully, the GDP will be able to remedy some of this. As one of the rewriters of the Notation Reference (in fact the *only*, AKA "Mr Zero"), I can subscribe to some of the criticism. I don't know about the index -- I har

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/6, Eyolf Østrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If someone cares to do it, that is... To be completely fair, it has already been done for a lot of very common tweaks (e.g. \stemUp etc.) I don't find the \overrides very hard to understand; it's one of the very first thing I knew how to achieve in Li

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 06.01.2008 (17:15), Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2008/1/6, Eyolf Østrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'd love to be able to write > > \rehearsalmarks{alphabetic} or \setlenght{betweensystemspace}{2em} if > > someone writes a package that includes it. > > What, you mean something like: > http://lsr.d

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/6, Eyolf Østrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hopefully, the GDP will be able to remedy some of this. As one of the > rewriters of the Notation Reference (in fact the *only*, AKA "Mr Zero"), I > can subscribe to some of the criticism. I don't know about the index -- I > hardly ever use it, perhaps

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 06.01.2008 (09:51), Reilly wrote: > No offense to everyone who has worked on the documentation for Lilypond, but > the documentation is the weakest component of the package. The index often > lacks entries for my questions. The entries more often than not, do not > address my problems. The c

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Reilly
Graham and fellow Lilyponders: I have been following the discussion of Graham's planned departure from the Lilypond team and other recent discussions on the extent to document code in style sheets and tweaks. I began using Lilypond in the summer of 2007, after rejecting demo versions of the ma

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/6, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "help ur program is broken. where are teh buttons 2 click on" ahahahaha :) (irrepressible hysterical laugh) Still, if I might add a comment here, the quality we need the most is *not* a high LilyPond skill-level, but simply patience, enthusiasm, an

Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-05 Thread Graham Percival
Thanks to everybody who expressed an interest helping lilypond! I've discussed specifics with many of you, but I'm not certain that I managed to contact everybody. If your email slipped through the cracks, sorry, and please send it again! If at all possible I prefer to let volunteers choose their