On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Here's a documentation wish list item: page layout diagrams that show > > how things are spaced > > What "things" exactly?
The things I'm referring to are the graphical objects on the page. A diagram showing the objects on the staff (or page) with their names and the various properties/variables that affect how they are spaced relative to other objects. Lily takes care of 95% of the layout really well so I don't even have to think about it when I'm entering the music into a .ly file. However, the 5% of the things that need tweaking take up 95% of the time I spend with lily. I'm sure that will change as I get more familiar with lily, but as I page through the documentation trying to find out how to do the tweaks, I find myself wishing for something that would show me graphically how things fit together. I provided a figure from a LaTeX manual which showed how LaTeX layed out a page. That figure showed the various parts of a page and the variables one would set to alter the page layout properties (as well as what the defaults were set to). Now, with lily, things are a little more complex as we're not dealing with mainly text, but I still think that diagrams such as that one would be very useful in showing how things are positioned and spaced out on the screen - and what to tweak to change the layout. > Speaking of diagrams, how do you people like this? > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.1/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Technical-manual.html#Technical%20manual > > It's an attempt at clarifying all the different property types. That looks good. A minor point: you mention "scheme style naming" on the above page. That's meaningful to me because I'm a programmer. For a person who is not a programmer, it may be worth mentioning that scheme-style names use dashes and lower cases letters. In all fairness scheme style naming is described in another part of the manual, but if the user hasn't read that, they will be a little fuzzy about this particular page. Nick ==============------- www.SongBirdofSwing.com -------================== Nick Busigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Our Indie Jazz CD Construction Project! ==============------- www.SongBirdofSwing.com -------================== _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
