"Štěpán Němec" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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It's great there are various examples at
http://lilypond.org/examples.html
but the fact that there are _only_ the outputs without the corresponding
LilyPond source is somewhat anticlimactic.
I sure am not the only one who naturally goes "Wow, how was _this_
done?" when looking at (some of) the examples.
There are 2 practical problems with doing this. The first is that these
examples are all small extracts of much bigger pieces - they are reduced to
a single line simply to illustrate what's possible and are displayed on the
examples page as png files which have been manipulated by an image processor
to get them to the size they are. To provide a link to lilypond code that
produces the examples as they are would require quite a bit of work in
cutting down the much larger scores.
The second is that, as examples of the complexity of score that can be
produced, then I have no doubt that some of them have quite complex tweaks
(albeit I've not read them to check). Showing this to a beginner would
likely scare them off even bothering to download the source. In contrast,
starting at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/index.html
is designed to lead beginners in gently. I would also make the point that
if a beginner browses a little further, they will get to
http://lilypond.org/text-input.html which is even simpler.
--
Phil Holmes
Bug Squad
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