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Re: GUI


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: GUI
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:01:03 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux)

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:32:50PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> >  If you can suggest an improvement, especially in the
>> >  Introduction pages, please do.
>> 
>> LilyPondTool, Frescobaldi, Emacs and Vim are listed under
>> "Alternate Input."  Since this link is to the right of "Text
>> Input," the implication is that they are alternatives to text
>> input, which of course is false: All the information under the
>> "Text input" link applies to these programs.
>
> Hmm.  I'm trying to tie these two together: text input and
> alternate input are both the same color, and end in "input".
>
>> Maybe change "Alternate Input" to "Input software," or "Input
>> programs," or "Progams, At least One of Which You Will Use to Enter
>> Your Scores if You At All Value Your Time and Sanity."
>
> I'm willing to change the name, but I'm not convinced that any of
> thsoe are more attractive than "alternate input".  More to the point,
> the bottom of "text input" tries to direct people there, with the
> "easier editing environments" stuff.

"Input aids".

> Hmm, on second thought, what about calling it "Easier editing"?  That
> alliterates, so it gets a 20% bonus to its attractiveness. :)

But it is mostly wrong since the graphical programs usually don't allow
editing existing input at all, but rather _generate_ or export Lilypond
input.

-- 
David Kastrup





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