Re: Tutorial

[Manuel]

Am 03/12/2006 um 00:04 schrieb Graham Percival:

> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > Right! This first example of the tutorial is somewhat idealized to  
> > hide
> > unnecessary complications. I hope you haven't got stuck there but  
> > rather
> > kept reading and experimenting with the program.
> > Graham, maybe we should modify this first example so the user  
> > output is
> > exactly the same as the version printed in the tutorial.
>
> I'm not opposed to this; I've gone back and forth on the issue  
> myself. To be honest, biggest reason that I haven't changed it  
> already is that
> {c d e f g...}
> are in the bass clef range, so we either introduce \clef bass at  
> the very beginning, or have huge ledger lines in the treble clef.

You can leave the excersice as it is, only tell the student what he  
is going to see as a result and, in the next step, explain how to  
change the different values, like the time signature, octave, clef,  
etc. In this way, one can fiddle with the music and learn.

> I've added this to my list of easy jobs for people interested in  
> helping.  (I'll probably post it tomorrow)
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham

For me as an "absolute beginner" the tutorials - the pdf as well as  
the htlm and even the new french one - are sometimes useful and  
sometimes not. My main difficulty arises from not knowig where to  
write a prescribed instruction. Something is being taken for granted  
which I should be able to learn before going so far.

I gather that I should start a document writing the version number; I  
suppose that I should then keep going from the general to the  
particular but, since many things are preset defaults, I would only  
need to specify those things as are different.

Manuel