Re: improving LilyPond useability

[Peter Gentry]

> 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?
>>Janek Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:34:53 +0100

This is an excellent suggestion, examples of small ensembles of various genres 
suitably authorised by the keepers of the runes would
be invaluable to the beginner.

These should be as free as possible of "tweaks" as these will confuse and 
de-motivate the uninitiated.

It would be nice if the invocations of instructions/tweaks could be intuitive - 
you cannot really say that for most Lily tweaks at
present.

Lilypond is very tweakable to produce all manner of complicated scores but this 
power needs to be either sheilded from the beginner
whose musical/computational skills may not be up to it or made much more 
accesible.

These are not meant to be critical comments just the observations of a convert 
with modest skills.

regards
Peter Gentry