Re: Searchable Lilypond manual [Was: Re: Downloading documentation]

[Sebastiano Vigna]

On Jan 21, 2007, at 3:08 AM, Graham Percival wrote:

> It takes a lot of time (and bandwidth!) to load?  Also, I assume  
> that this search is more intelligent than just finding the first  
> appearance of your string; it attempts to rank the results.

Yes. For instance, ranking is by proximity, and you can do stuff line  
(line break)~5 to find "line" and "break" withing 5 words. Personally  
I've always found direct search into the lilypond manual impossible.
> Sebastino, I just did a quick check with "line break", and the  
> first two results were in the Program Reference.  What about adding  
> an option (IMHO, it should be enabled by default) to restrict the  
> search to the user manual?  Most people don't want to see stuff  
> like "Forbid_line_breaker" or "line-break-event".  :)

Well, that's easy: "line break !reference" . I'll add a line in the  
help section.

> The fifth result of that search was the "all-in-one page"; you  
> should probably remove that from the search space.  I mean, the  
> whole point of this searching is that you don't need to use the  
> "one big page"!  :)

Fixed. Thanks!

Ciao,

                                seba