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Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples
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Mike Solomon |
Subject: |
Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:27:43 +0200 |
On Aug 24, 2011, at 3:19 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
>> Comment #2 on issue 1834 by address@hidden: Website: provide
>> link to .ly for examples
>> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1834
>>
>> Summarising comments on bug-lilypond:
>>
>> The examples are often too complex and lengthy to be really useful to
>> beginners.
>> As above, they wouldn't work in mouse-over bubbles.
>
> The mouse-over bubble would show a looking-glass view into the source,
> centered at the corresponding view. If that is feasible, it would show
> the text from the corresponding point in the source up to (but not
> including) the next point in the source corresponding to a different
> graphical element. The disadvantage of this particular mechanical way
> might be that tweaks and overrides would likely end up in the bubble of
> the graphical element before the element they actually affect. One
> would need to try this out in order to see how one would create best
> extracts.
>
> I am not convinced that this would be worthless.
>
>> The source of the examples has value, both as a snippet, and as a
>> teaching tool.
>
> It would not meet the label "snippet" usually.
>
I think it'd be great to have a "How does one make that?" link that shows step
by step, exactly like Urs's tutorial, how to get from a blank LilyPond document
to the final result with ample description and many links to the relevant docs.
That way, people's curiosity can be satiated without feeling overwhelmed.
Cheers,
MS
- Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples, lilypond, 2011/08/23
- Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples, lilypond, 2011/08/24
- Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples, lilypond, 2011/08/24
- Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples, David Kastrup, 2011/08/24
- Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples,
Mike Solomon <=
- Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2011/08/24
- Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples, David Kastrup, 2011/08/24
- Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples, Graham Percival, 2011/08/24
- Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples, Phil Holmes, 2011/08/24
- Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples, Štěpán Němec, 2011/08/24
Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples, lilypond, 2011/08/24
Re: Issue 1834 in lilypond: Website: provide link to .ly for examples, lilypond, 2011/08/24