Re: GDP: the snippets vs. texinfo

[Hans Aberg]

On 10 Nov 2007, at 06:02, Graham Percival wrote:

> Consider NR 1.2.1 Tuplets, for example.  (if you haven't already,  
> please see the "LSR->lilypond docs" email)
>
> Currently, the "Commonly tweaked properties" contains five  
> examples. These demonstrate a number of neat tricks you can do with  
> tuplets... but what happens if something needs to be updated?  (ie  
> a property name changes, somebody thinks of a better explanation,  
> there's a nicer way to achieve a particular tweak, etc)

Personally, I don't care were stuff is put, if only the main document  
is having certain keyword to search for and an indication of where to  
read more about it. If I type a keyword in Preview (Mac OS X), I can  
see all occurrences.

So, for example, suppose I want to typeset less common meters. These  
are called by names such as "irregular", "asymmetrical", "compound",  
"complex", "aksak", "limping", etc. I could search for a few of those  
names to get a hit. If there is a line in the document that this is  
discussed in more detail elsewhere, it would be fine with me.

In this context, I have found examples in the main document to be  
useful because sometimes I have some LilyPond code, and then I can  
search for occurrences of some keywords in that code. This way, I can  
get places where the topic I am looking for might be discussed.

  Hans Aberg