OT: Discussion with developer on documentation
Apologies for a question not directly related to Lilypond, but is there anyone who works with the documentation for Lilypond on this list with whom I could interact privately? I am working on a totally unrelated open-source project and we we are faced with about 500 pages of legacy documentation in Word that we need to port to the web in a more friendly format than Word. Lilypond’s documentation seems like an ideal model for me, and I’d like to get a better picture of what might be involved in order to arrive at that end. Best, Arle ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: OT: Discussion with developer on documentation
I'm probably the ideal person, but I'm away at a music camp for the next week, so will have very little time. If this request could wait until the 26th, I'd have much more time. The short answer is that we use texinfo, which has a few nice parts but a few bad parts. I think it's the best documentation format for nicely-formatted pdfs and html output (at leats, that seemed to be the case in 2008), but there *are* some really annoying parts. If you start looking at texinfo and try to think of specific questions about how it might work with your project, I could give more specific answers. :) Cheers, - Graham Percival On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:13:02PM -0400, Arle Lommel wrote: Apologies for a question not directly related to Lilypond, but is there anyone who works with the documentation for Lilypond on this list with whom I could interact privately? I am working on a totally unrelated open-source project and we we are faced with about 500 pages of legacy documentation in Word that we need to port to the web in a more friendly format than Word. Lilypond’s documentation seems like an ideal model for me, and I’d like to get a better picture of what might be involved in order to arrive at that end. Best, Arle ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: OT: Discussion with developer on documentation
On 2010-07-16 18:13, Arle Lommel wrote: Apologies for a question not directly related to Lilypond, but is there anyone who works with the documentation for Lilypond on this list with whom I could interact privately? [...] On a side note: I'd be happy to read about this topic on the mailing list, as long as no private information is concerned. While it may be off-topic, there's some stuff far less interesting on the list nobody complains about. And I'm sure Graham will give some hints of great use for everybody who deal with the same problem for other projects, especially regarding the choice and pros or cons of the texinfo system. Cheers, Alexander ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: OT: Discussion with developer on documentation
On 7/16/2010 11:03 AM, Alexander Kobel wrote: On 2010-07-16 18:13, Arle Lommel wrote: Apologies for a question not directly related to Lilypond, but is there anyone who works with the documentation for Lilypond on this list with whom I could interact privately? [...] On a side note: I'd be happy to read about this topic on the mailing list, as long as no private information is concerned. While it may be off-topic, there's some stuff far less interesting on the list nobody complains about. And I'm sure Graham will give some hints of great use for everybody who deal with the same problem for other projects, especially regarding the choice and pros or cons of the texinfo system. +1 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
