Re: Cut and paste from manual returns errors

[DW]

I don't want to harp on this point, but it is significant that when I mention
to people that I use Lilypond their faces curl up and frumple. Usually a
little prodding reveals that they have encountered the manuals.

I have invested a little time in trying to figure them out, and I find them
highly confusing, no matter how you care to go about searching them, and I
usually try multiple tacks (including pdf's and google and native indexing)
before I get to the answer I am looking for.

It's okay for me because I find lilypond useful enough to persevere.

But most people will do what I did at first, go to the search box on the
lilypond page, type in "barlines" and proceed to be baffled and confused. I
had to find the information under "polymetric notation" which this instance
isn't a true example of, and by that time had been spending a frustrating 30
mins doing so with multiple open pages to scroll through.

So you can understand that once you find some little bit of hope, that the
fact the information is not clearly labelled as belonging to a non-stable
release is going to throw 99% of those who have stuck with it to this point
off the track.



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