2011/8/24 Phil Holmes <[email protected]>: > "Štěpán Němec" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> >> 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.
+1 cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
