Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

[Valentin Villenave]

2006/12/6, Bertalan Fodor <address@hidden>:

> It seems that you don't use LilyPondTool. If you used it, you would have
> a full-text search of LilyPond doc. See the screenshot at
> http://www.organum.hu/87.0.html
As a matter of fact, I do use LilypondTool. But I just did'nt remember
the doc was included. Thanks a lot, this will be extremely valuable to
me I guess...

2006/12/6, Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> 2)  What info was so hard to find?  Can you think of any way to improve
> the lilypond docs?  (missing terms in the index, perhaps?)
Well, my problems mostly come from the fact I don't always know the
right English word for what I'm looking for... But let me try to sum
up a few  things I said to myself once :
-it's a pity the LSR is a bit poor
-we're missing some recent examples ; I often look for, say,
orchestral scores on Mutopia or Lilypond pages but I'm always very
disappointed these are mostly written with 2.4 or 2.6 (and convert-ly
doesn't always work very well you know, especially with 2.10...)
-a little box with a simple "search" button would be welcome on
Lilypond.org, I really can tell you. Maybe it isn't the point to have
some of those roaring websites, with complicated CMS, stylesheets,
interface etc., but just a simple integrated search function ; is it
possible to think about it ?

You see, I understand LilyPond docs are very well organized. But we
average users (and newbies) are not _that_ rational. Sometimes,
navigating through tutorial, documentation, sections, sub-sections and
so on can be longer and more difficult (no matter how "logical" it can
be)  than just typing a keyword and letting the computer find it for
you.

And once again, (and since I've learned there is actually some
LilyPond-oriented MediaWiki extension), I can't help dreaming of an
entire Wikipedia-style Lily doc...

But thank you all for having taken a few seconds to answer me.

Thanks for the Todo-list Graham. I'll try to give it a look though I'm
not that experienced...

Regards,
V.Villenave