Re: constructive criticism

[Nick Busigin]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> The step from basic to advanced user is clearly a major threshold but
> does not involve learning all about Scheme but rather to learn the
> mechanisms to set properties and the syntax used. The sections on
> "Setting Variables" and "Fine Tuning layout" in the Tutorial try
> to explain these aspects.
> I also sketched a slightly more elaborate instruction in an email
> some months ago, thinking that it might a good addition to the manual
> but haven't yet received any response on if it is useful or not.
> See http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-10/msg00195.html

Hello Mats,

Thank you for posting your link and also for writing out your "What You
Need to Know About Property Settings" document.  After reading the
manual, I was still a little unclear of how it all fit together.  Your
document concisely summarized what I needed to know.  Now I have a much
better idea of how to go about making tweaks and I also have a better
(although still at a novice level) insight into how lilypond works.  I'd
definitely vote to have your document either included in the manual or
perhaps have a pointer from the manual to it.

A comment about the documentation - it's really quite complete, just
quite a bit to swallow when you are initially getting up to speed on how
to use lily.  However, the more I learn about lily, the more I
appreciate how complete and well written it is. 

                                     Nick

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