Re: New LilyPond website

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> OK, I was asking because I have written a static command line HTML
>> site generator that builds from HTML, Markdown, reStruturedText,
>> Textile, Plain Text (.txt), and Microsoft Word (.docx).
>>
>> http://jmroper.com/blended
> 
> I am not convinced that that changing our HTML generation is in our
> best interest at this time.
> 
> Design is almost entirely a question of CSS.  I'd like to see some
> serious effort at improving the CSS, since that it 99% of the
> user-visible changes, and does not negatively impact the rest of our
> code.  Again, I suggest that you look at:
> https://github.com/gperciva/lilypond-web-css
> 
> If there is a need to style a particular element that currently
> lacks an id= or class= name, I'd be quite happy to add that to our
> existing texinfo and static site generation.

I think there are two separate issues.

(1) Update the CSS to make the web page visually more pleasing.

(2) Change the input syntax for the *web page* to something more
    common and more flexible than texinfo, e.g., markdown + templates.

Both are reasonable IMHO, especially (1).  The question is whether and
how much of (2) we want.

John, can you set up

  http://jmroper.com/lilypond/

with `blended' together with a README so that we can inspect the
source code, CSS, etc., and the necessary steps to create it?  I think
only a direct comparison can answer our questions.


    Werner