Re: new website: draft 3

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:27 AM


> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:22:11AM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > Do you mean into the current LM 5.2 "When thing's don't work" or
> > somewhere else? If you prefer to rename the FAQ (or rather the 
> > section
> > on common mistakes of the FAQ) into "When things go wrong", I'd 
> > claim
> > that it's still a FAQ.
>
> My understanding of a FAQ is that it would include any frequently
> asked question.  So things like like "how does \relative work?" or
> "does it run on windows?" would qualify, if those were being
> asked.
>
> My understanding of "LM 5.2 When things don't work" is that it
> would include tips on finding and fixing problems in lilypond
> files: add bar lines, try commenting out sections, and recognizing
> odd error messages.

That's my intention.  I've two things to add
right away: music running over the right margin
and the obscure errors apparently in ly/init.ly
due to a missing final brace (until someone
adds a canary).  Any others?

There are lots of other obscure error messages
in the sources, but I don't intend adding these
unless a user has asked about them - most of
them will never occur in practice.

Trevor