Re: improving LilyPond useability

[Colin Campbell]

On 12/05/2013 01:54 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> 2013/12/5 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> > Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > 2013/12/4 Jacques Menu <address@hidden>
> > > > My recent experience creating choir scores for the first time, one
> > > > of them with difference words a given
> > > > stanza in a repeated part (see attachments), makes me think it would
> > > > help to have off-the-shelf *commented*
> > > > samples of some size and complexity, as a complement to the existing snippets.
> > > Sounds like a good idea.  I could add some real-life score examples of my own.
> > > Where would you place such material?  A new manual, or in an existing one?
> > Documentation/ly-examples?
> >
> > I actually have no idea where those end up, I just sometimes change them
> > when new syntax comes around.
> Apparently here: http://lilypond.org/examples.html
>
> Which means that it's not quite the right place for them.  For
> starters, examples from http://lilypond.org/examples.html are there
> because they look nice, not necessarily because their lily code is
> pretty; people are not meant to learn LilyPond from them but rather
> get impressed by the output.


There are two possibilities which come to mind:
 - an appendix to LM, which would actually be my *second* choice, or
 - a new "Templates" library, analogous to the Snippets.

Cheers,
Colin

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