Re: documentation size

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, James Bailey wrote:

> I realize that downloading and reading the documentation offline is not for 
> everyone, but is there a way to make a documentation for download that isn't 
> so large? Looking at it, the size increased more than 30 MB between 2.13.1 
> and 2.13.2. I don't know usually work with the unstable docs, but even the 
> stable version docs increased by more than 20MB between 2.12.2 and 2.12.3. 
> Did something wonky happen, or is this just the way it is now?
>
> Alternatively, is there an option for the documentaiton that doesn't have 
> absolutely everything (maybe one without regression tests and snippets) for 
> download purposes, for someone who just likes to have the documentation 
> offline?

I have been thinking about that also. I build my own updated lilypond-doc 
rpm package for my Fedora 12 system, because I want a copy that doesn't 
take to much disk space on my EeePC. I have modified my fedora spec file 
to only package the English documentation. I removed all the translations. 
This already shrinks the size of the package.

Another thing that can be removed if you want to read the documentation 
offline with your browser is the PDF versions of the manual. They contain 
exactly the same information as the html version, right ?

And why should everything be available both as "big-page" and separate 
html files ?

If you then also remove the regression tests and snippets ( but keep links 
to the online versions ) it should be possible to create a "light" version 
of the Lilypond documentation.

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Martin