Re: Newbie problems

[David Kastrup]

David Rogers <address@hidden> writes:

> Peter Toye <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Thank you all very much for your help. It's not the most intuitive
>> user interface (or should that be language?), and I've only been
>> trying it out for a few hours, so I'm coming up with all sorts of
>> silly issues.
>>
>> One problem I'm having is that it's not easy to find things in the
>> documentation. As with all language systems,. you spend an awful lot
>> of time searching.....
>
> Part of this problem is simply the way Lilypond is. With some software,
> the manual is only where you go when you run into trouble, and most of
> the time you expect to work without the manual. With Lilypond - well,
> let's say you should reserve a permanent space on your screen for the
> Lilypond manual, for the next several months. :)

When using Emacs, C-h i is just two keystrokes away.  No need to reserve
additional space for the info manual.

-- 
David Kastrup