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From: | Phil Holmes |
Subject: | Re: Website: Provide LilyPond source together with the example output |
Date: | Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:05:45 +0100 |
It's great there are various examples at http://lilypond.org/examples.html but the fact that there are _only_ the outputs without the corresponding LilyPond source is somewhat anticlimactic. I sure am not the only one who naturally goes "Wow, how was _this_ done?" when looking at (some of) the examples.
There are 2 practical problems with doing this. The first is that these examples are all small extracts of much bigger pieces - they are reduced to a single line simply to illustrate what's possible and are displayed on the examples page as png files which have been manipulated by an image processor to get them to the size they are. To provide a link to lilypond code that produces the examples as they are would require quite a bit of work in cutting down the much larger scores.
The second is that, as examples of the complexity of score that can be produced, then I have no doubt that some of them have quite complex tweaks (albeit I've not read them to check). Showing this to a beginner would likely scare them off even bothering to download the source. In contrast, starting at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/index.html is designed to lead beginners in gently. I would also make the point that if a beginner browses a little further, they will get to http://lilypond.org/text-input.html which is even simpler.
-- Phil Holmes Bug Squad
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