Re: Patch for 1.3.151

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> > the top www page is intended to introduce lilypond to new users. I
> > don't want them to get lost in a forest of links.  Gurus like you can
> > just bookmark the manual. I still have to look at where to put the
> > mailing list links in.
> 
> I'm more worried about the new users than about myself. 
> As a new user, I'd like to find a link to the "User's Manual"
> or "Reference Manual" somewhere at the top of the list.

I disagree. When I encounter a new program, I start looking at FAQs,
introductions, readmes, screenshots, etc. The manual is the last thing
I'd be looking for.


More to the point, many of the questions on the mailing list indicate
that the manual isn't even read *after* downloading and running lily.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden    | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/