Re: arrrgh. manuals download link hard to find...

[Carl Peterson]

Note at the bottom of the Nanuals page:

> Manual formats
> The LilyPond manuals generally come in three formats:
> split HTML, big HTML and PDF. Split HTML is good for
> reading online. Big HTML (and some of these can be very
> big) contains the whole manual in a single page. PDF is
> available for downloading and using offline. To get to these
> 3 formats, follow the links that read details of and then the
> manual name.

Each manual has a link in parentheses that says "details of [manual
name]" Click there, and all three formats are available. To your
point, not the most obvious, but it is there. Perhaps this explanation
should be at the top of the page.

Cheers,
Carl P.

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Tom Cloyd <address@hidden> wrote:
> Updating everything, due to new release of Ly, I'm trying to get the new
> manuals. Running into an old problem:
>
> On the homepage, on the right, in the Quick Links columns, there's a
> software download link, and link to the manuals. I always assume the manual
> link will lead also to a download, which it does not. It merely duplicates
> the link already in the menu at the top of the page. Why give me what I
> already have? Well, ok - convenience. But...
>
> browsing to the manuals page, OR the downloads page, my search for a clearly
> labeled manuals download link yields absolutely nothing. Not helpful. Not
> all the world lives eternally in connection with the Internet. Some of us
> NEED to have local versions of everything on our box so we can always work,
> regardless of situation. WE need a full manual download. If only it could be
> found....
>
> Well, it DOES exist, if you are persistent enough in looking: on the manual
> page, in the "Other material" section, click the "all" link.
>
> PLEASE - could we not make the manuals download page location a LOT more
> obvious than this?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Tom
>
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