Re: Related to GDP

[Graham Percival]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Related to what I just wrote in my email on "GDP - Learning Manuall 
> Songs section", I hereby volunteer to write an introduction to the
> art of setting properties in LilyPond. The intention is just to provide 
> a first overview of the different options available.

Would this be replacing LM 6.1 - 6.3, or adding new material / new 
sections?   (in the 2.11 docs, that would be 5.1 - 5.3)

6.1 is obviously broken right now, of course.


Another general concern about this is just what stays in "Changing 
defaults" and what moves into the learning manual.  I wasn't planning on 
investigating this for another few months, though.

> One reason not to include it into the learning manual, is that some
> of the options that I will list, may seem very exotic to a new user. On 
> the other hand, from my experience of questions on the mailing list, I 
> know that many "somewhat experienced" users would benefit a lot from
> such an overview.

I'd still prefer it in the LM.  IMHO, it isn't a bad thing for new users 
to be exposed to some "very exotic" tweaks -- I mean, I introduce scheme 
programming in the LM!  As long as it's clear that this is a optional 
tweak, I'm not too concerned about complexity.

Cheers,
- Graham