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Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU
From: |
Graham Percival |
Subject: |
Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:00:51 -0700 |
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:30:43 +0200
"Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" <address@hidden> wrote:
> I must note however that I strongly disagree with the approach "you
> must read the manual first". Honestly, when you buy an house-hold
> appliance you first read the manual? I doubt. For making the first
> cup of coffee you won't read the manual. Later, when you want to make
> different kinds of exotic coffees you will.
1) lilypond is not a house-hold program. Most users (ie window
people) will be too scared by text input to even *think* about
using lilypond. My mother, for example.
2) People don't buy lilypond. It's Free software.
3) You can't do *anything* in lilypond without reading the
tutorial at least.
> Perhaps it's because of my software developer experience, but I am
> strongly and seriously against abbreviations and acronyms in any
> case. Reading and interpreting abbreviated text needs much more
> overhead than what you gain during write time. Not to mention better
> text editors where you can define abbreviations thus eliminating
> write time overhead.
Are you volunteering to spend 100 hours over the next year
responding to all the RTFM questions? Not all the *interesting*
emails on -user; just all the stupid "Q: how can I get a < mark
under a few notes? A: you read the `dynamics' section of the
docs." questions.
Having spent well over a hundred hours on such idiodicies in the
past four years, I have no patience left for them.
Cheers,
- Graham
PS lest anybody say "maybe we should get a support team of
non-experts who have the energy/interest in politely
explaining/answering beginner questions", I'll point out that I
made a few attempts to recruit such people last Spring.
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, (continued)
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Valentin Villenave, 2008/08/11
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Tomas Valusek, 2008/08/12
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, James E. Bailey, 2008/08/12
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/08/12
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Ralph Palmer, 2008/08/12
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Dominic Neumann, 2008/08/12
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Ralph Palmer, 2008/08/12
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Dominic Neumann, 2008/08/12
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Patrick Horgan, 2008/08/12
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2008/08/14
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU,
Graham Percival <=
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Nicholas Wastell, 2008/08/12
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Valentin Villenave, 2008/08/12
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Nicholas Wastell, 2008/08/13
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Valentin Villenave, 2008/08/13
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Sven Axelsson, 2008/08/13
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, Trevor Daniels, 2008/08/13
- Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU, David Bobroff, 2008/08/13
- it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU), Graham Percival, 2008/08/13
- Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU), Nicholas Wastell, 2008/08/13
- Re: it's all up to you users, Patrick Horgan, 2008/08/13