Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-03-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Done! /Mats Graham Percival wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: I hope you don't mind if I modify the text and remove the current first paragraph under Windows. Please do. In general, feel free to change anything relating to Windows stuff (installation, font-specific information) and anything

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Sorry to come back to this one, but I just noticed that the current text on Windows in Compiling a file isn't really coherent, since it first mentions start-up a text editor and then later describes how to do the same thing with the text editor bundled with LilyPond. I hope you don't mind if I

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: I hope you don't mind if I modify the text and remove the current first paragraph under Windows. Please do. In general, feel free to change anything relating to Windows stuff (installation, font-specific information) and anything in chapter 7. Since I don't have any

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Such an overview of different editors, should of course also mention the simple text editors included in the LilyPond distribution for Mac and Windows. /Mats Graham Percival wrote: Bertalan Fodor wrote: Ok, I'm happy to do this. But what should I write about emacs, vim etc? Should I write

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-25 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Ok, I'm happy to do this. But what should I write about emacs, vim etc? Should I write about configuration, or link to the manual? Bert So spend 30 minutes and create a general editor webpage for lilypond. If you omit emacs or vim you'll probably have a riot, but you only need one paragraph

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: We don't _have_ a webpage about editors. At least, not that I'm aware of. How about Section 13.6 Editor support? /Mats ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-25 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Graham Percival wrote: We don't _have_ a webpage about editors. At least, not that I'm aware of. How about Section 13.6 Editor support? That's part of the manual, not the docs. I'd like to remove that section and point to a nice, colorful webpage instead. Cheers,

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-25 Thread Graham Percival
Bertalan Fodor wrote: Ok, I'm happy to do this. But what should I write about emacs, vim etc? Should I write about configuration, or link to the manual? I don't know. How about you start with the info currently in the manual (then nobody can complain that we're deleting info). If you think

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-25 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: \chords {...} is just a shorthand for \new ChordNames \chordmode {...} just as \figures{...} is a shorthand for \new FiguredBass \figuremode and similarly for \drums and \lyrics. See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-04/msg00332.html Without really

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-24 Thread Alard de Boer
On 23/01/07, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The rewritten tutorial is online, http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Tutorial Could a few people proofread it? In the near future the translation teams will be working on it, so it would be good if we finalized node

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-24 Thread Graham Percival
Alard de Boer wrote: The tutorial is great! Some minor comments: 2.1.1 second footnote: These easiest - The easiest 2.1.1 Section MacOS X, 2nd par: lilypond - LilyPond (all other uses except the Unix command line have the two capital letters) 2.3.1 3rd paragraph: means that are - means that

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: - The instructions for Windows need some polishing. Basically, you could more or less the same as on Mac, namely double-click the LilyPond icon on the desktop to start a simple text editor. I can come back with more details when I have a

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-24 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Finally, it's probably a good idea to add a footnote with a link to some overview of different text editors, since the one supplied with LilyPond on Windows and probably also on Mac is fairly rudimentary. This should replace the current footnote 1. I don't think it should be a footnote.

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-24 Thread Graham Percival
Bertalan Fodor wrote: Finally, it's probably a good idea to add a footnote with a link to some overview of different text editors, since the one supplied with LilyPond on Windows and probably also on Mac is fairly rudimentary. This should replace the current footnote 1. I don't think it

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-24 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Some more information that might be worth adding already in the tutorial (again specifically for Windows): Thanks, I did all these updates. Finally, it's probably a good idea to add a footnote with a link to some overview of different text editors, since the one

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-24 Thread Graham Percival
Bertalan Fodor wrote: I don't think it should be in the manual at all; I'd prefer this info to be on the webpages. Ok, but the link to the webpage about editors should be at an emphasized place in the doc. We don't _have_ a webpage about editors. At least, not that I'm aware of. Cheers, -

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-24 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Well, we have a webpage about at least one quite good editor: http://lilypondtool.organum.hu ;-) Graham Percival írta: Bertalan Fodor wrote: I don't think it should be in the manual at all; I'd prefer this info to be on the webpages. Ok, but the link to the webpage about editors should be

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-24 Thread Graham Percival
Bertalan Fodor wrote: Well, we have a webpage about at least one quite good editor: http://lilypondtool.organum.hu ;-) So spend 30 minutes and create a general editor webpage for lilypond. If you omit emacs or vim you'll probably have a riot, but you only need one paragraph about each. Then

proofreading tutorial

2007-01-23 Thread Graham Percival
The rewritten tutorial is online, http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Tutorial Could a few people proofread it? In the near future the translation teams will be working on it, so it would be good if we finalized node names and caught any major mistakes. Cheers, -

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Thanks for all your ambituous documentation updates! I've just looked at the first few pages, but have a couple of comments: - The cut--pastable-section of the first example contains lots of lines that are just confusing and should never be included in a stand-alone .ly file. Maybe it's

Re: proofreading tutorial

2007-01-23 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: - The cut--pastable-section of the first example contains lots of lines that are just confusing and should never be included in a stand-alone .ly file. Maybe it's better to not use the fragment option of lilypond-book and recommend the reader to only cut the lines after