Re: Website: Provide LilyPond source together with the example output

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/8/24 Štěpán Němec <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:59:31 +0200
> David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> I agree that this is anticlimactic.  Personally, what I would like to
>> see is having a small source code extract displayed on mouse-over
>> corresponding to the displayed element.  We have this information
>> available inside of Lilypond (and use it in PDF for source navigation),
>> the question would be how to get it out to image maps.  Showing the
>> whole humongous source is likely to be a turn-off.  Seeing a small
>> source window for individual constructs on demand may be quite more
>> educating, entertaining and reassuring.
>
> That'd be one way. Another way would be to make the images behave just
> the same as in the tutorial -- link to the text file with the source
> (where the relevant portion is delimited with "% begin ly-snippet" or
> something like that, which would take care of the "turn-off" issue).
>
> Also, I'm not sure some of the examples could reasonably fit into a
> mouse-over bubble.

I think that David's point was that the scores are too big and complex
to be shown in their entirety, because they'll scare beginners.  I
think he suggests that the "mouse-over bubble" would show only a small
part of the code, directly relevant the the object pointed to.

cheers,
Janek