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New issue 2647 by [email protected]: Doc: Clicking on lilypond example
images to obtain source file
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2647
Federico Bruni reported here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2012-07/msg00046.html
The behaviour described by Federico is reproducible, so the documentation
changes seems a reasonable request.
However, it is not clear that the behaviour is the intent of the doc
designers, so perhaps the first step in addressing this bug would be
confirmation of the expected behaviour of the linked example files
Text of the original report follows:
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Hi,
I remember that I used to click an example in the doc and see the text file
in the browser window. Now I'm prompted with a window which asks me which
application I should use.
I don't know what's changed but I think that it's something introduced in
the "recent" browsers (???). If you try the attached html file, you'll see
that a .txt file is opened within the browser while a .ly file needs an
external application.
We've always used .ly files...
This behaviour is actually fine for me, because this allows me to set my
favorite lilypond editor and avoid the copy and paste.
But maybe the Learning Manual should be rephrased in this section?
"If you click on a picture in the HTML version of this manual, you will see
the exact LilyPond input that was used to generate that image. Try it on
this image: " "By cutting and pasting everything in the “ly snippet”
section, you have a starting template for experiments. To see exactly the
same output (line-width and all), copy everything from “Start
cut-&-pastable section” to the bottom of the file. "
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/learning/clickable-examples
PS
It would be nice to know how to force the browser to open the ly file.
And I'm also curious to know why Mutopia links to .ly files do not require
external application. Some .htaccess rule, I guess.
Thanks for making this straightforward
--
Federico "the nitpicker"
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