Re: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/2/11, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry, you missed the subtext. I wasn't asking for a poll of who > considered the index useful, I was saying "I'm not going to work > on this. Any volunteers?" I'm probably the one responsible for having hijacked your topic :) Sorry, Valentin

Re: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-11 Thread Graham Percival
> been lost without it a few cases. > > Ralph > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:25:08 +0100 > From: "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: GDP: index ent

Re: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
. In fact, I think I would have been lost without it a few cases. Ralph -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:25:08 +0100 From: "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: GDP: index entries for snip

Re: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-11 Thread Palmer, Ralph
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Re: Subject: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-09 Thread David Fedoruk
Not knowing the question to ask is often a problem for me to. You are not alone with this experience. Perhaps he is asking how docbook format works. I'm just guessing about his query myself. > > The html version's indeces. See above for general pointers, there > > really is just one main thing t

Re: Subject: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:55:06 +0100 "Kess Vargavind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, I love indeces (indexes?) and use them everywhere. Would you be willing to maintain the indeces/indexes? Some of the doc writers (including myself) either aren't good, or aren't interested, in trying to think

Re: Subject: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-09 Thread Kess Vargavind
Ho, As a librarian-in-training I have to agree with Jay (it generally hurts more omitting an entry than including it, especially in a open project like this that/which doesn't really have page limits to think about). I've been thinking on speaking up about the indeces for quite some while now but

Re: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/2/8, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Of course, I famously never use the index, so I'm not the best > person to judge whether certain index entries are helpful or not. Neither am I :-) Anyone else? Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user maili

Subject: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-08 Thread Jay Hamilton
As a former librarian, I know that creating indexes is a total pain and unfortunately should be as extensive and repetitious as possible. Over-estimating the users ability/intelligence is a grave error. Yours- Jay Jay Hamilton ___ lilypond-user mail

GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-08 Thread Graham Percival
Latest GDP docs http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/ (although these are almost identical to the 2.11.39 docs at the moment) Do we want index entries for snippets? For example, in NR 1.1.3.2 Key signature there are two snippets: suppressing natural signs in key signatures, and non-standard key signa