Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/12/28 Federico Bruni : > 2013/12/28 Janek Warchoł >> >> I don't know what happened to Colin - i thought that he was going to >> start working on this already - but anyway here's the rough >> translation of my "quick start" tutorial: >> >> https://github.com/janek-warchol/warsztat-nutowy/blob/

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-28 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/12/28 Janek Warchoł > I don't know what happened to Colin - i thought that he was going to > start working on this already - but anyway here's the rough > translation of my "quick start" tutorial: > > https://github.com/janek-warchol/warsztat-nutowy/blob/translation/english/uczenie/2%20wprow

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Daniel and Alex, 2013/12/27 Daniel Rosen : > >> >> From: Janek Warchoł [mailto:janek.lilyp...@gmail.com] >> >> I've created a "Quick-start" tutorial some time ago. It's only >> >> 6 pages long and covers nearly all basic notation elements than a >> >> beginner would need - but it's not just a

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-27 Thread Alex Loomis
sers; Jan Nieuwenhuizen; David Kastrup; Urs Liska; Noeck; >> Kieren MacMillan; Joseph Wakeling; Benjamin CL; Richard Shann >> Subject: Re: improving LilyPond useability >> >> Hi Daniel, >> >> (sorry for delayed reply - so many emails flying around...) >> >

RE: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-27 Thread Daniel Rosen
rd Shann > Subject: Re: improving LilyPond useability > > Hi Daniel, > > (sorry for delayed reply - so many emails flying around...) > > 2013/12/2 Daniel Rosen : > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Janek Warchoł [mailto:janek.lilyp...@gmail.com] I&#x

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-11 Thread David Kastrup
Yann writes: > About this, I also like the fact in LaTeX that once I find the package > that does what I want, I can read the associated doc and use it. Most > of the time it is as simple as "load this package, specify options" > and use some new commands if provided. What I mean is that the > pr

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-10 Thread Colin Campbell
On 12/10/2013 04:41 PM, Yann wrote: Hello everybody :) I agree with this statement of Janek Warchoł, I think a quick start document would be nice. Maybe the user could be redirected to it when first starting Lilypond (either a web page launched in the browser, or a document open) ? Such a docum

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-06 Thread Peter Gentry
> 2013/12/4 Jacques Menu > My recent experience creating choir scores for the first time, one of > them with difference words a given stanza in a repeated part (see > attachments), makes me think it would help to have off-the-shelf *commented* > samples of some size and complexity, as a comple

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-05 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/12/5 Noeck : >> There are two possibilities which come to mind: >> - an appendix to LM, which would actually be my *second* choice, or >> - a new "Templates" library, analogous to the Snippets. > > there is a templates folder in the snippet library! > https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.12.2013 22:39, schrieb Noeck: There are two possibilities which come to mind: - an appendix to LM, which would actually be my *second* choice, or - a new "Templates" library, analogous to the Snippets. there is a templates folder in the snippet library! https://github.com/openlilylib/s

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-05 Thread Noeck
> There are two possibilities which come to mind: > - an appendix to LM, which would actually be my *second* choice, or > - a new "Templates" library, analogous to the Snippets. there is a templates folder in the snippet library! https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets I copy the current folder

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-05 Thread Colin Campbell
On 12/05/2013 01:54 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2013/12/5 David Kastrup : Janek Warchoł writes: 2013/12/4 Jacques Menu My recent experience creating choir scores for the first time, one of them with difference words a given stanza in a repeated part (see attachments), makes me think it would h

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-05 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/12/5 David Kastrup : > Janek Warchoł writes: > >> 2013/12/4 Jacques Menu >>> My recent experience creating choir scores for the first time, one >>> of them with difference words a given >>> stanza in a repeated part (see attachments), makes me think it would >>> help to have off-the-shelf *c

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-05 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > 2013/12/4 Jacques Menu >> My recent experience creating choir scores for the first time, one >> of them with difference words a given >> stanza in a repeated part (see attachments), makes me think it would >> help to have off-the-shelf *commented* >> samples of some size

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-05 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Daniel, (sorry for delayed reply - so many emails flying around...) 2013/12/2 Daniel Rosen : >> -Original Message- >> From: Janek Warchoł [mailto:janek.lilyp...@gmail.com] >> I've created a "Quick-start" tutorial some time ago - my choir colleagues >> used >> it when crowd-typesetting

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-05 Thread Urs Liska
"Janek Warchoł" schrieb: >2013/12/4 Jacques Menu >> My recent experience creating choir scores for the first time, one of >them with difference words a given >> stanza in a repeated part (see attachments), makes me think it would >help to have off-the-shelf *commented* >> samples of some size

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-05 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/12/4 Jacques Menu > My recent experience creating choir scores for the first time, one of them > with difference words a given > stanza in a repeated part (see attachments), makes me think it would help to > have off-the-shelf *commented* > samples of some size and complexity, as a compleme

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-03 Thread Noeck
>> Some criticism has been made about the length of the manual. I started >> with an IBM PS2 (1982) using a non-graphical interface Microsoft >> Word. The manual, if my addled memory is correct was somewhere around >> 300+ pages. > > And cut. > > "Wrangling down that attacking Rottweiler wa

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-03 Thread David Kastrup
"Mark Stephen Mrotek" writes: > Since my practice and performance of Lilypond spans less than a year > (installed 21 May 2013), I might qualify to comment on the "attractiveness" > and/or "accessibility" of Lilypond to a newbie. > > Preservation of a two-part invention written for an undergraduat

RE: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-03 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
nt: Monday, December 02, 2013 7:16 AM To: Phil Burfitt Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: improving LilyPond useability "Phil Burfitt" writes: > I believe first impressions are important, and I think that LilyPond > lets itself down here. After installing LilyPond, a new user w

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-03 Thread David Kastrup
renato writes: > Hi, I feel like you misinterpreted what I'm saying. All the things you > say are good of course: sensible syntax, good "getting started" > documentation, templates, not exhausting the user. I'm not saying you > should purposefully make lilypond obscure, just saying that you shoul

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-03 Thread Phil Burfitt
From: "Renato" Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 11:54 PM "Phil Burfitt" wrote: >you don't really get around these programs without reading docs >(and you shouldn't try to make it easy). I disagree with "you shouldn't try to make it easy". what I meant was "you shouldn't try to make it eas

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-03 Thread renato
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:01:30 +0100 David Kastrup wrote: > Renato writes: > > > On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 18:14:52 - > > "Phil Burfitt" wrote: > > > >> >you don't really get around these programs without reading docs > >> >(and you shouldn't try to make it easy). > >> > >> I disagree with "you sh

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-03 Thread David Kastrup
Renato writes: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 18:14:52 - > "Phil Burfitt" wrote: > >> >you don't really get around these programs without reading docs >> >(and you shouldn't try to make it easy). >> >> I disagree with "you shouldn't try to make it easy". > > what I meant was "you shouldn't try to mak

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-02 Thread Renato
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 18:14:52 - "Phil Burfitt" wrote: > >you don't really get around these programs without reading docs > >(and you shouldn't try to make it easy). > > I disagree with "you shouldn't try to make it easy". what I meant was "you sh

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-02 Thread Carl Peterson
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Phil Burfitt wrote: > - Original Message - From: "David Kastrup" > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 7:11 PM > > > Wouldn't it be far better after installing lilypond, to present the >>> user with a cut down tutorial and usage instructions in a read-me >>> f

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-02 Thread Phil Burfitt
- Original Message - From: "David Kastrup" Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 7:11 PM Wouldn't it be far better after installing lilypond, to present the user with a cut down tutorial and usage instructions in a read-me file, and two desktop icons/shortcuts...one for this read-me file, a

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-02 Thread David Kastrup
"Phil Burfitt" writes: > From: "Renato" > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 4:49 PM > >> I mean, lilypond is text-editor + command-line by design > > Of course, but what it the point of invoking a command prompt that > _doesn't work_ when clicking on the lilypond icon (the view from a > windows ma

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-02 Thread Phil Burfitt
- Original Message - From: "Renato" Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 4:49 PM I mean, lilypond is text-editor + command-line by design Of course, but what it the point of invoking a command prompt that _doesn't work_ when clicking on the lilypond icon (the view from a windows machine

RE: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-02 Thread Daniel Rosen
> -Original Message- > From: Janek Warchoł [mailto:janek.lilyp...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 8:50 AM > To: LilyPond Users; Jan Nieuwenhuizen; David Kastrup; Urs Liska; Noeck; > Kieren MacMillan; Joseph Wakeling; Benjamin CL; Richard Shann > Subject: improving LilyPond usea

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-02 Thread Renato
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 15:06:13 - "Phil Burfitt" wrote: > So often people after buying a new shiny thingy, open the box, plug > it in, and only after numerous failed attempts to get it to work, > decide to read the manual Well they'd hit the same wa

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-02 Thread David Kastrup
"Phil Burfitt" writes: > I believe first impressions are important, and I think that LilyPond > lets itself down here. After installing LilyPond, a new user will > discover a new icon on their desktop. They'll double click on it, and > what do they get?a sort-of read me file (it's LilyPad, bu

RE: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-02 Thread Phil Burfitt
Hi, I believe first impressions are important, and I think that LilyPond lets itself down here. After installing LilyPond, a new user will discover a new icon on their desktop. They'll double click on it, and what do they get?a sort-of read me file (it's LilyPad, but you wouldn't know that