Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 12-Jun-05, at 11:57 AM, dpeach wrote: What I think would go a long way to helping understand some of the concepts is to take a full score of various types of music and severely documenting the .ly file. That way someone can read the .ly file of the music and get the snippets in context. You

RE: comparing lilypond (was Re: More pictures to manual)

2005-06-12 Thread Fairchild
Student project? -Original Message- From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 5:47 PM To: David Bobroff Cc: Fairchild; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: comparing lilypond (was Re: More pictures to manual) David Bobroff wrote: >>Following th

Re: comparing lilypond (was Re: More pictures to manual)

2005-06-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
David Bobroff wrote: Following the link Anders' provided finds a rich source of scores coded in Humdrum/**kern. Anyone know if there exists S/W to convert Humdrum code to Lilypond? Well, after looking up what Humdrum/**kern was all about I found this page: http://www.ccarh.org/courses/253/l

RE: comparing lilypond (was Re: More pictures to manual)

2005-06-12 Thread David Bobroff
At 04:01 PM 6/12/2005 -0500, Fairchild wrote: >Following the link Anders' provided finds a rich source of scores coded in >Humdrum/**kern. Anyone know if there exists S/W to convert Humdrum code to >Lilypond? > Well, after looking up what Humdrum/**kern was all about I found this page: http://

RE: comparing lilypond (was Re: More pictures to manual)

2005-06-12 Thread Fairchild
lf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 5:05 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: comparing lilypond (was Re: More pictures to manual) It would be extremely useful for someone wanting to compare the work and performance of Lilypond to other tools to look at typesetting of some "

Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I really hope that you have seen the section in the manual called "Example Templates". I agree that this section could be improved further if these templates had more comments (maybe not within the template itself but in the accompanying text). Another hint is to use jedit as text editor since it

Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-12 Thread dpeach
For me the examples that we have in the manual are good, but not everything I would like to see. You may be interested in looking at Mutopia (www.mutopiaproject.org), which contains lots of Real examples. Mutopia has been a huge help to me. What I do is find a piece of music similar to what

comparing lilypond (was Re: More pictures to manual)

2005-06-12 Thread andersvi
It would be extremely useful for someone wanting to compare the work and performance of Lilypond to other tools to look at typesetting of some "real-life" examples, examples which have already been used for such comparisons. One such set of examples is at CCARH: http://www.ccarh.org/publications

comparing lilypond (was Re: More pictures to manual)

2005-06-12 Thread andersvi
It would be extremely useful for someone wanting to compare the work and performance of Lilypond to other tools to look at typesetting of some "real-life" examples, examples which have already been used for such comparisons. One such set of examples is at CCARH: http://www.ccarh.org/publications

Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-09 Thread Roman Käppeler
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2005 09.58, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Have you looked at the Tips and Tricks document and the Regression Test document in the on-line documentation? They provide exactly what you ask for. Also, all(?) these examples plus more are also available in

Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 09.58, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Have you looked at the Tips and Tricks document and the Regression Test > document in the on-line documentation? They provide exactly what you ask > for. Also, all(?) these examples plus more are also available in the > LilyPond Snippet Reposit

Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Have you looked at the Tips and Tricks document and the Regression Test document in the on-line documentation? They provide exactly what you ask for. Also, all(?) these examples plus more are also available in the LilyPond Snippet Repository, see that link at http://www.lilypond.org/web/documenta

Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-07 Thread Roman Käppeler
Graham Percival wrote: >> At the moment this does not suffice for me. The manual just gives >> the basics, but to get the result from this basics is still very, >> very difficult! To write the notes is very, very easy, but to put >> different staves together or something else still drives me gr

Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-06 Thread Graham Percival
On 5-Jun-05, at 2:49 AM, Roman Käppeler wrote: At the moment this does not suffice for me. The manual just gives the basics, but to get the result from this basics is still very, very difficult! To write the notes is very, very easy, but to put different staves together or something else still d

More pictures to manual

2005-06-05 Thread Roman Käppeler
Hi, I don't know whos making the documentation for Lilypond, but my suggestion is to put many, many, many ... more pictures to the manual! The easiest way to learn Lilypond and to manage the difficulties would be to have something like a cook book. In this cook book you see nearly all different