To counter-act the "texi2html looks boring" idea, here's a new version: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html
1) *NO*, I don't think the garish colours and backgrounds look good. I'm showing that we can do whatever we want, not proposing that red-text-on-black-image is easy to read! I'm probably the worst graphics designer on this list, so I'm not even going to *pretend* to be a graphics designer. If we end up going this route, then OF COURSE we'll ask those people to produce a beautiful css file. 2) Apologies to people who worked on the perl texinfo init file for the docs. I hacked it up horribly to get this version. - also, if we end up going this route, somebody (I'm willing to do it, although I wouldn't mind delegating this :) needs to make the nagivation menu show the current subsections in a second list. (like the current webpage) - we also probably want to remove the <h1>section-name</h1> from the page. Not a big deal. 3) Ok, so why do I want to use texinfo so much? - makes pdfs+info. I personally *never* use those formats, but I know that some people still use them. IMO, if we're going to support those formats for the manuals, we should support them for the information that's on the website. - we all know texinfo. It's easy to fix small mistakes in it. If we go this route, I can have the content of the new website done by the end of this weekend. Then we just need to adjust the style (tweak the init file, write a CSS, maybe make new images, etc). Oh, and adjusting the translation stuff[*]. Yes, I know that texinfo is confusing for beginners -- by "we all know", I mean "all the major lilypond contributors". In other words, "all the people who might be fixing typos and incorrect content on the website". [*] For this reason -- and this reason only -- I don't think we should aim to have the new website ready by 2.14. Tentative plan is to release 2.14 in early July, then work on the translation infrastructure for the texinfo website, then release the new website in early Aug. - texinfo enforces the "content vs. presentation" thing. All our webpages will have a consistent look; it's not *possible* to do weird hacks in texinfo to create odd stuff for individual pages. (at least, not without modifying the global css file as well) - I think it would be cool. Everybody "knows" that texinfo is boring and bland; I think it would be really neat to have a fancy website created from texinfo. It could also serve as a great example for other projects as to the possibilities of texi2html. I think we all agree that it's been great for our manuals, after all! Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel