Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Pierre-Luc Gauthier
The LilyPond repository is the only one that I follow closely that actually has (not quite but almost) daily updates anyway. I try to keep up to date as to where it's going, how it works and who's implicated (and in what capacity/portion). It is a big and complicated project that seems to have a

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 18/08/2022 à 21:30, Pierre-Luc Gauthier a écrit : I also read "git log -p" on a daily basis. Just curious: are you really reading `git log -p` *on the LilyPond repository* on a daily basis? Or is this a general method to learn about software that you apply for various pieces of software on

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
HI Pierre-Luc; This is very nice, thank you. Ken On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 12:30 PM Pierre-Luc Gauthier wrote: > > Thanks Andrew for your input. I did write a few manuals (and still do) > for some system usage and I know how hard it can be to cover all what > a system can do and how to do it.

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Pierre-Luc Gauthier
Thanks Andrew for your input. I did write a few manuals (and still do) for some system usage and I know how hard it can be to cover all what a system can do and how to do it. For the record, I learned a *lot* reading all (most) of the change logs :

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Thank you, Aaron. Yes, I found that Wikipedia entry at about the same time that I first struggled with the tremolo. It really comes back to being able to think and write fluently, doesn't it? :-) Thanks to you all for your great support on this list. Ken On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 9:09 AM Aaron

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
AWESOME! On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 9:14 AM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > > What even makes it more difficult is when I don't even know what > > something is called at all (no terminology) and/or when I have no > > clue how to succinctly describe what it is that I don't know. For > > example, the

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> What even makes it more difficult is when I don't even know what > something is called at all (no terminology) and/or when I have no > clue how to succinctly describe what it is that I don't know. For > example, the tremolo; I recognized the graphic but I had no way to > search for it by

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2022-08-18 8:49 am, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: What even makes it more difficult is when I don't even know what something is called at all (no terminology) and/or when I have no clue how to succinctly describe what it is that I don't know. For example, the tremolo; I recognized the graphic but I

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Thank you all for your commentary on my question. I think there are some very nice responses here that give me some perspective. What even makes it more difficult is when I don't even know what something is called at all (no terminology) and/or when I have no clue how to succinctly describe what

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Karlin High
On 8/18/2022 5:48 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: Every layman seems to have a different 'layman's term' for things, some of which are true alternatives and some of which are just plain wrong. Doing residential tech support, I will never forget the man who referred to the desktop background

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hello Ken, I also use Dorico, which currently has a 1720 page PDF manual. If I may make a few comments. There's an active Steinberg Dorico forum. It's continuously full of complaints about using the manual. It's also full of complaints saying Dorico is not 'intuitive'. Finally somewhat

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 18/08/2022 à 04:16, Kenneth Wolcott a écrit : Hi; Dumb documentation question here: Kind of like a FAQ but also kind of like an index. So this would be a "translation" of layman's terms to Lilypond/professional terminology and an index; it could even point to existing indices (in Notation)

Re: Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-17 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
I do see the FAQ on the documentation page, but I think that this needs to be expanded, in more detail, as it frequently takes too long to find things in the existing documentation. Maybe I just don't use the right search strings to find what I'm looking for. On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 7:16 PM

Why not have a Lilypond documentation set arranged as layman's Q: does LP do this?

2022-08-17 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; Dumb documentation question here: Kind of like a FAQ but also kind of like an index. So this would be a "translation" of layman's terms to Lilypond/professional terminology and an index; it could even point to existing indices (in Notation) and/or the Glossary. Q: Does Lilypond do X