Re: Understanding Lilypond

[Urs Liska]

Am 17.01.2015 um 17:22 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> Hi Peter,
>
> > I'm not sure that my response is suitable for the list
>
> It *definitely* is!
>
> > Please feel free to critisize scorn or otherwise flame.
>
> I’m sorry your default expectation is to be critisized, scorned, or flamed — 
> that hasn’t been my primary experience on this list (as a newbie more than a 
> decade ago, or since), although there are of course exceptions. (As I recall, 
> the lilypond-devel list is more severe.)
>
> > There are excellent aids to get one writing ly scripts and producing quite 
> > complex scores but not to make those individual tweaks.
> > Looking at the various tweaks published on the list can be bewildering the 
> > common first impression is why? how? Where was that in
> > the documentation?
>
> Can you give a concrete example? Either it is in the documentation and you were 
> unable to find it, or it’s not in the documentation — either way, there may be 
> a solution which will assist future users/readers.

I think the problem is more fundamental than individual missing items.
What we'd need is something similarly slow-paced as the Learning Manual 
but for the Extending Manual.

In a way the tutorials in Scores of Beauty 
(http://lilypondblog.org/category/using-lilypond/tutorials/) are a 
start, but I'd always want to have more material there.

Just yesterday we had the question how to store pitches in a Scheme 
pair. The solution involved switching parsing modes between LilyPond, 
Scheme and LilyPond-in-Scheme.
Such questions would really warrant tutorials, and these tutorials would 
actually help people get into it.

Urs

> Thanks,
> Kieren.
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