Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

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Greetings all:

On Jan 6, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote:

> > Hopefully, the GDP will be able to remedy some of this. As one of the
> > rewriters of the Notation Reference (in fact the *only*, AKA "Mr 
> > Zero"), I
> > can subscribe to some of the criticism. I don't know about the index 
> > -- I
> > hardly ever use it, perhaps for the reasons you mention

Everything about version 2.11 is much improved, including the rewriting 
of the Notation Reference.

> Jeremiah,a question comes suddenly to my mind: do you ever use the
> LilyPond Snippet Repository?
>
> (It's OK if you don't, it would just mean that it's not visible enough)

Yes, I do use the LSR. I also have found several "private" Lilypond 
code libraries where users have been thoughtful enough to catalog their 
solutions. I used Lilypond six months before posting my question to the 
user's group because I feel it is my responsibility to make every 
effort to use the published resources and not ask questions with 
*obvious* answers. Now, I usually work several hours on a "problem" 
before I post a question and at least half the time I find the solution 
on my own. I enjoy the work and the effort makes me a better user.  The 
other half of the time, I do get stumped.

> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it
>
> The LSR makes looking for tips extremely easy (Plus, we have a tagging
> system that is gonna be accessible Real Soon Now, so things will be
> made even easier).
>
> Plus, it includes the whole LilyPond Documentation as well, and
> searching for keywords is definitely much easier with this tool than
> with the very limited index -- AFAIK only Graham has ever used it ;)
>
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Manual

I respectfully suggest that usefulness of the LSR and the documentation 
is impaired by the snippets themselves and not the search capabilities. 
I don't have time to dig out an example now, but basically, I seach, I 
find, and the snippet (or doc ref) does not answer my problem.

> > I'd love to be able to write
> > \rehearsalmarks{alphabetic} or \setlenght{betweensystemspace}{2em} if
> > someone writes a package that includes it.
>
> What, you mean something like:
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=368


cheerios,

Jeremiah