Re: Printed manuals, why not?

[Owain Sutton]

1980s manuals tended to be in a lie-flat ring-bound format, as far as I 
remember? They had cross-references which were just begging for someone to 
invent HTML!

On 17:09, Fri 19 Sep 2014, Larry Kent wrote:
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:09:37 -0400
> From: Larry Kent <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Printed manuals, why not?
> To: Son_V <address@hidden>
> Cc: "LilyPond, User group" <address@hidden>
> List-Id: LilyPond user discussion <lilypond-user.gnu.org>
> 
> I agree completely with the sentiment.
> 
> However, because LilyPond changes so frequently, it would have to be almost
> like a subscription with loose-leaf pages in a binder, so that when
> something changes, we could print out replacement pages.
> 
> I haven't thought through this, but maybe something like:  Say that Chapter
> 1 includes pages 1-1 through 1-40 and when an update occurred we could
> replace pages 1-3 through 1-8 with pages 1-3a through 1-8d (and then the
> next page would still be page 1-9 etc).
> 
> Larry Kent
> Tampa FL
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Son_V <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I would be glad to have the option to buy printed manuals for
> > LilyPond; I
> > thought of making it from some printing service, but for a 834 page book I
> > should pay 40 Euro, something like 55USD. It could  (maybe) be something to
> > have a contribution. Has no one thought about this? Thanks.
> >
> >
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