Re: quick question: web manuals presentation

2009-10-04 Thread Ian Hulin
I vote for the Essay page. The Glossary page format wastes space at the bottom left of the screen unless the description and notes are very wordy (and we don't want them to be). The single column of the Essay Page allows longer individual text lines which are more comfortable to read. The Gl

Re: quick question: web manuals presentation

2009-10-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
I much prefer the Glossary page. It is much clearer. The space on the left will accommodate a longer description easily and the reading instructions are grouped neatly together on the right. Trevor - Original Message - From: "Graham Percival" To: Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 12

Re: Automatically checking regtests (was: Re: Minor releases?)

2009-10-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:58:32PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > >> Yes.  All it takes is bookmarking the site, checking it whenever > >> there's a release, and reporting any broken examples.  However, > >> nobody is willing to commit

Re: dist failure for stable

2009-10-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op zondag 04-10-2009 om 13:23 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Graham Percival: > I'm already doing tons of compiling on master, so I really don't want > to abandon that stuff and switch to stable to fix these. Delegating work is the best thing to do, failing that I would just do a parallel checkout

2.12.3 testing

2009-10-04 Thread Graham Percival
I tried making stable with the lilypond-release-branch. Unfortunately, the ::lilypond-test target doesn't obey the LILYPOND_BRANCH, so it built the 2.13.5 regtests. As you would expect, there was nothing in the comparison. :( Jan: I'll switch back to master, so it's not worth investigating the pr

Re: quick question: web manuals presentation

2009-10-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 02:52:54PM +0200, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: > I would personally favor the second one (Essay.html). Thanks, noted. > Nevertheless, I have a remark for the three of them: > If "read it now" is the same as "xxx (split html)", I would eliminate > this double since it i

Re: quick question: web manuals presentation

2009-10-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 02:45:50PM +0200, James E. Bailey wrote: >On 04.10.2009, at 13:13, Graham Percival wrote: > > Ok, for the next 12 hours, what do people think of the format of > the manual pages? I tried a few experimental ones, namely: > http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/D

Re: quick question: web manuals presentation

2009-10-04 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 04/10/2009 13:13, Graham Percival disait : Ok, for the next 12 hours, what do people think of the format of the manual pages? I tried a few experimental ones, namely: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/Glossary.html http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/Essay.html The origi

Re: quick question: web manuals presentation

2009-10-04 Thread James E. Bailey
On 04.10.2009, at 13:13, Graham Percival wrote: Ok, for the next 12 hours, what do people think of the format of the manual pages? I tried a few experimental ones, namely: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/Glossary.html http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/Essay.html The or

dist failure for stable

2009-10-04 Thread Graham Percival
I'm already doing tons of compiling on master, so I really don't want to abandon that stuff and switch to stable to fix these. file from VC not distributed: lilypond-2.12.3/Documentation/ja/GNUmakefile file from VC not distributed: lilypond-2.12.3/Documentation/ja/user/GNUmakefile file from VC no

Re: output-distance.py

2009-10-04 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 03/10/2009 21:04, Patrick McCarty disait : I'm sorry for not being completely clear. I should have first referred you to the CG page: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/contributor/Testing-LilyPond.html And these are the exact steps I would do: $ git checkout 4c5a581ca $ m

quick question: web manuals presentation

2009-10-04 Thread Graham Percival
Ok, for the next 12 hours, what do people think of the format of the manual pages? I tried a few experimental ones, namely: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/Glossary.html http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/Essay.html The original format looks like this: http://kainhofer.com/