Re: More pictures to manual

[dpeach]

For me the examples that we have in the manual are good, but not 
everything I would like to see.

> > You may be interested in looking at Mutopia (www.mutopiaproject.org), which 
> > contains lots of Real examples. 

Mutopia has been a huge help to me. What I do is find a piece of music 
similar to what I want. Then I modify it to suit my needs. I realize 
that as an advanced user of Lilypond, this is not a time saver and can 
actually introduce horrible troubleshooting headaches. But for a 
beginner, this has been a great help.

So...

What I think would go a long way to helping understand some of the 
concepts is to take a full score of various types of music and severely 
documenting the .ly file. That way someone can read the .ly file of the 
music and get the snippets in context. You would not have to do every 
style of music, nor even really complicated ones. Probably 5 well chosen 
pieces (or even made up pieces with no musical value) would do it. For 
example have a vocal/choir piece, an instrumental with several staves, 
modern, classical and something else.

Not every Lilypond concept could be covered, but much of the basics will 
be there. But the key is documenting the .ly file so that the reader can 
see in context how the whole is constructed.

If this exists, then forgive the suggestion and point me to the right 
place. The snippets help, but I am better helped by seeing the whole 
rather than the parts that make it.

dpeach