Re: Manual section: templates (mostly piano)

[Graham Percival]

On 29-Aug-04, at 9:19 PM, Robinson P. Tryon 03 wrote:

> I'm relatively new to using lilypond.  I've struggled with the syntax 
> and have
> had problems finding clear documentation for certain types of markup.

New users are the best source of documentation.  Once you've been using 
a
program for a few years, it's difficult to remember which were the hard 
steps
when you were starting out.  Please send any comments[1] my way!  :)

> The wiki seems like a great place for people to contribute 
> documentation that
> can then be tidied up by Graham Percival (or whoever) and folded into 
> the
> regular docs,

Yes, exactly.

> I'd like to suggest that we more actively use the wiki to document 
> problems we
> face (and hopefully solve).  Poking through the primary documentation 
> to see the
> same minimal descriptions of components or formatting can be quite 
> frustrating.

Actually, at the moment I find the comments on the lilypond-user 
mailist more
useful than wiki.  (since I know how to read, reply to, and store 
emails for
later inclusion in the docs, whereas I don't know how to use the wiki 
yet :)

While I'm not too busy (the next couple of weeks), I'd prefer to take 
stuff
directly from the mailist.  If I get busier after that (say, doing 
LilyPond
stuff only once or twice a week) then it might be better for people to 
submit
docs to the wiki and have me take it from the wiki.

Cheers,
- Graham