Re: improving LilyPond useability

[Colin Campbell]

On 12/10/2013 04:41 PM, Yann wrote:
> Hello everybody :)
>
> <snipped>
> I agree with this statement of Janek Warchoł, I think a quick start
> document would be nice. Maybe the user could be redirected to it when
> first starting Lilypond (either a web page launched in the browser, or
> a document open) ? Such a document would fall in-between the c d e f g
> a b c example of Lilypad and the learning manual.

Janek has sent me a copy of his Quick Start Manual, and I think that it 
can very easily be turned into a downloadable resource as well as a 
target on the website. I don't see it replacing the Learning Manual, but 
it looks really nice as a sort of Lily for the Impatiens, if I'm not 
getting too flowery! Janek has covered the basic stuff well, and I think 
it might stand a little seasoning with links to the other manuals, just 
sprinkled here and there. The idea, which I haven't discussed with 
Janek, might be to put it on the website, but because it's 
self-contained, we can also encourage the adventurous reader to download 
the file and play with it, to see what the effect of changes might be. 
As I say, this is a Partly-Baked Idea at the moment, and I'll put up a 
tracker/patch for review. Actually, and this just occurred to me, we 
could also make it part of the default install, particularly on Windows, 
so that verifying the install results in the Quick Start Guide opening.

Stay tuned, this could get to be fun!

Cheers,
Colin


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