Re: improving LilyPond useability

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi Daniel,

(sorry for delayed reply - so many emails flying around...)

2013/12/2 Daniel Rosen <address@hidden>:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Janek Warchoł [mailto:address@hidden
>> I've created a "Quick-start" tutorial some time ago - my choir colleagues 
>> used
>> it when crowd-typesetting "Dixit Dominus".  It's only
>> 6 pages long and covers nearly all basic notation elements than a beginner
>> would need - but it's not just a cheat-sheet: it introduces and teaches how 
>> to
>> use Lily.  Add to that 3 pages explaining how to write basic structure and 
>> we'd
>> have something that gives an easy (but complete enough) introduction to
>> LilyPond in half an hour (as opposed to 2 days of reading and heavy thinking
>> for the Learning manual).
>
> Sounds awesome.
>
>> I'd be more than happy to share this tutorial and translate it, but i don't 
>> have
>> time to lead an effort to incorporate it in our docs.  So, if someone wants 
>> to
>> take responsibility for this, i'll help, but without support this will not 
>> work
>> out!
>
> I would definitely be willing to help with this, but I’m afraid that my skill 
> set
> may be too limited to take the lead--in particular, I don't speak any 
> languages
> well enough to translate them into English without resorting to Google.

That's not a problem at all!  I would translate my materials to
English; as for translating them back to other languages we have
people who'd take care of that.  What you'd have to do is to turn my
materials into proper documentation: find a place for it, fix wording
(my translation probably won't be perfect), incorporate comments from
other developers, etc.

In other words, i'd be glad to make the translation but i want to be
sure that my work will actually be used, and that someone will
shepherd it through our contributing process so that it ends up in the
official documentation (i don't have time to this management myself).
Of course if you run into *any* technichal difficulty (like "how do i
add a new section to the documentation?"), i'll try to help.  But i
need someone that will take responsibility for getting it done.

Quite frankly, i think this would be an excellent project to get
started in contributing to LilyPond.  It doesn't require programming
expertise or any particular knowledge - you just have to put some
effort in.

best,
Janek