SLopUF = sporadic low-powered user feedback

[Robin Bannister]

Graham Percival wrote on -dev
> Well, the fact is that most users don't seem interested in  
> helping with the docs, even to the extent of reading them.  :| 


I had my first contact with Lilypond over two years ago (2.6.5 on win98). 
I was extremely confused before I could get it to compile something, 
even though I wasn't expecting a GUI application. 
In my initial enthusiasm I wrote up a short account of my newbie 
experience, thinking this might be useful to the experts, 
especially those writing the docs. 

But on rereading it, I realized it wasn't very helpful. 
It jumped around, touching on all sorts of irrelevancies, 
i.e. it was just as confused as I was. 
And then it just might have been construed as a rant. 
So I sat on it. 
And soon it referred to an obsolete version and an unsupported OS. 


This still applies in a sense:
I can offer maybe 10% essence and 90% personal confusion, 
i.e. not only is the user low-powered but timely feedback would be too. 

I will preface any such offerings with "SLopUF" 
to warn off those readers not interested in 
baroque instantiations of trivial use cases. 

Cheers,
Robin

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