Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-11-12 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/11/11 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: 2012/11/11 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: Am 15.10.2012 11:55, schrieb Francisco Vila: 2012/10/15 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: But anyway, are there results from user-polls on other lists? Yes, there are a few ones. They are mainly generic

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-11-12 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: I attach a text with the collected opinions. As I said, there is nothing specifically syntax-specific. I would like to repeat the experiment next year. Sorry for the delay 1 Something confuse or uncoherent? An user found that when doing

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-11-12 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/11/12 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: The fundamental question for an user (and he thinks it is for all new users, too) was to realize that lilypond is a programming language. Every syntax is more or less complex, and it would be useless to question it without a big amount of judgement

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-11-12 Thread Joram Berger
Some comments from my usage experience. Am 12.11.2012 12:27, schrieb David Kastrup: Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: ... The fundamental question for an user (and he thinks it is for all new users, too) was to realize that lilypond is a programming language. Every syntax is

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-11-11 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 15.10.2012 11:55, schrieb Francisco Vila: 2012/10/15 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: But anyway, are there results from user-polls on other lists? Yes, there are a few ones. They are mainly generic complaints, not specific syntax related. I will make a summary. I don't want to be too pushy, but

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-11-11 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/11/11 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: Am 15.10.2012 11:55, schrieb Francisco Vila: 2012/10/15 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: But anyway, are there results from user-polls on other lists? Yes, there are a few ones. They are mainly generic complaints, not specific syntax related. I will make a

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-10-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
Sorry for the delay :( On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, attached are the alphabetic sorted complains/suggestions about LilyPond-syntax from german users. Thanks! This is very valuable. Where should we store these results? An email

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-10-15 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 15.10.2012 11:15, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Sorry for the delay :( On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, attached are the alphabetic sorted complains/suggestions about LilyPond-syntax from german users. Thanks! This is very valuable. Where

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-10-15 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/10/15 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: But anyway, are there results from user-polls on other lists? Yes, there are a few ones. They are mainly generic complaints, not specific syntax related. I will make a summary. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-10-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: But anyway, are there results from user-polls on other lists? Perhaps the results should be merged before raising issues? That would be good. Unfortunately i didn't receive any feedback yet; i know just a handful of polish

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-10-07 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 06.10.2012 22:27, schrieb Thomas Morley: Hi, attached are the alphabetic sorted complains/suggestions about LilyPond-syntax from german users. Hi Harm, thanks for your work – looks like you spent quite a lot of time collecting *and* presenting these issues! It looks like some issues

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-10-02 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/9/24 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: 2012/9/24 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: I also think that it will take more than a week to collect all user feedback. What about making a short survey in

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-10-02 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/2 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: 2012/9/24 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: 2012/9/24 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: I also think that it will take more than a week to collect all user

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-10-02 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: I translated the questions as Janek proposed and posted them at the german LilyPond-Forum. http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=1213.0 I've got many replies. Some of them are very interesting. I plan to post a commented list of the

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-10-02 Thread Janek Warchoł
2012/10/2 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: Hey, has anyone translated/sent the survey? Should we re-take this interesting initiative? Definitely! There is no polish-speaking mailing list, but i know a few polish users and i'll ask them. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Thomas Morley

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: On 26/09/12 09:19, Janek Warchoł wrote: This is a good idea in itself, but i'm afraid we'll drown in the flood of suggestions if we ask this question now. Currently we want to focus on syntax alone.

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-27 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 27/09/12 16:44, Janek Warchoł wrote: oh yes, that's on my list of difficult to express things for more than a year. Reading Keith Stone's contemporary music examples, you'll see there's a similar issue for glissandi with a terminating pitch ... :-)

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: Actually, rather than what users find difficult (which I agree is important in and of itself), perhaps it's better to take a different tack: to try and prepare a systematic specification for the musical

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-26 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: Actually, rather than what users find difficult (which I agree is important in and of itself), perhaps it's better to take a different tack: to try and

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:52 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Currently we want to focus on syntax alone. If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Hard to do is a large problem class, and it is not necessarily clear to

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-26 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:52 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Currently we want to focus on syntax alone. If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Hard to do is a large

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:53 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: To get back at the hammer analogy, users might ask for a heavier hammer if they have problems getting screws in place. Or for a more convenient way to enter/express xxx when they should not be required to bother with xxx at

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-26 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 26/09/12 09:19, Janek Warchoł wrote: This is a good idea in itself, but i'm afraid we'll drown in the flood of suggestions if we ask this question now. Currently we want to focus on syntax alone. I do understand that, it's just that I think that proposals for syntax changes make more

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-25 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 24/09/12 14:07, Janek Warchoł wrote: I suggest to ask more for complaints than for ideas: what users find confusing, inconvenient and difficult to express in Lily syntax. I think this will be more valuable information than proposals let's have a syntax like this. Actually, rather than what

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: So I thought it might be an idea to start threads on national lists/forums about it and after same time (a week?) collect and list the complains, ideas, proposals. I think this is a good idea. I suggest to ask

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/9/24 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: I also think that it will take more than a week to collect all user feedback. What about making a short survey in English which we'll translate for our lists? That would give coherency to the responses. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: 2012/9/24 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: I also think that it will take more than a week to collect all user feedback. What about making a short survey in English which we'll translate for our lists? That

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-24 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 23 September 2012 19:18, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Xavier, Eluze suggested to contact you, being a native french-speaker. Would you like to open a thread or start a poll on the french-user-list about the topic described below in the quoted section? Hi

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/9/24 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: Good idea. For starters: 1) what do you find confusing in LilyPond syntax? For example, are you sometimes uncertain in what order should you write code elements, or what capitalization to use? 2) is there anything particularly unreadable or

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-24 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/9/24 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: I also think that it will take more than a week to collect all user feedback. Likely. Also, are we going to do something like this on general user list? Why not? 2012/9/24 Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com: IMHO the discussion should not

[GLISS] basics

2012-09-23 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, regarding all the GLISS-discussions, talking about topic x or topic y I feel not sure we're discussing the _really_ important questions for users, especially for beginners. We all outstripped the starting-difficulties and we all are quite familiar with the existing problems, maybe too much.

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-23 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/9/23 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: Eluze, Federico, Francisco would you like to join this and post sth similar on your national lists? Yes, good idea. I think I'll do it. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-23 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: regarding all the GLISS-discussions, talking about topic x or topic y I feel not sure we're discussing the _really_ important questions for users, especially for beginners. We all outstripped the starting-difficulties and we all are quite

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/9/23 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: regarding all the GLISS-discussions, talking about topic x or topic y I feel not sure we're discussing the _really_ important questions for users, especially for beginners. We all outstripped the

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-23 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 23/09/2012 15:08, Thomas Morley ha scritto: So I thought it might be an idea to start threads on national lists/forums about it and after same time (a week?) collect and list the complains, ideas, proposals. The advantage would be to reach a larger amount of users. And, not the least

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-23 Thread eluze
- but if he's not available I will try to do it. and I wouldn't speak of national lists since most languages are spoken in many different countries. Eluze -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/GLISS-basics-tp133379p133393.html Sent from the Dev mailing list

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/9/23 eluze elu...@gmail.com: Thomas Morley wrote Werner suggested to start a poll about topics annoying, irritating, hindering users. So I thought it might be an idea to start threads on national lists/forums about it and after same time (a week?) collect and list the complains,

Re: [GLISS] basics

2012-09-23 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Xavier, Eluze suggested to contact you, being a native french-speaker. Would you like to open a thread or start a poll on the french-user-list about the topic described below in the quoted section? 2012/9/23 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: Hi, regarding all the