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Re: Helping with the documentation


From: Walter Hofmeister
Subject: Re: Helping with the documentation
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:03:23 -0600
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On 4/14/06 9:45 AM, "Geoff Horton" <address@hidden> wrote:

>> So I was thinking of a method to make contibuting to the docs more easy.
>> Perhaps it's a good idea to set up a wiki for the docs.
> 
> I'm of two minds about this. The advantages you point out are real,
> but I also encounter a lot of frustration with wiki-based docs; for
> one thing, there's no very good way to make a quick scan through them
> looking for something. That makes answers are even harder to find if
> your mind doesn't work the same way as that of the person who wrote
> the section in question, or if the answer to your question is covered
> in a place completely different from where you expect it to be. I
> often find answers just by loading the full-page version of the docs
> (off my hard drive, so it's quick), doing a text search for a string,
> and looking at the material around hits to see if it looks like I'm in
> the right place. Most search engines don't return enough context for
> this to work well.
> 
> Geoff
> 
I agree. I have found the most useful way for me to work with Lilypond is to
download the documentation tarball and have this installed on my hard drive.
I can then easily travel through the User Manual and the Program Reference
sections. I would find using a Wiki cumbersome.
    By the way I would like to thank those who make the Documentation
tarball available. This was a big move forward for me as the previous
documentation did not include the images or they did not get installed on
Mac OS X. This meant that I had to go to the internet and farm the required
pages from the Lilypond site. I am sure the tarball is a far better
solution. Thanks very much!

Walter Hofmeister






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