David Sumbler <[email protected]> writes: > I must apologise to the list members for wasting their time by asking > my latest question (below). I can only put it down to a "senior > moment", which is quite worrying, as such incidents do seem to be > getting more frequent. Or perhaps it is a side-effect of the low-dose > Amitriptylene I am taking for back-related leg pain. > > When I came across the spacing problem I asked about, I was editing the > layout of a 25-page score that I originally entered into Lilypond only > 3 weeks ago. I had a vague notion that I had once asked about a > similar problem on the list, and I spent some considerable time > searching the list archives but without finding anything relevant. I > also, of course, searched the snippets, also without finding anything > helpful. Hence I decided to ask the list members if they knew of a > solution. > > This morning I woke up earlier than usual, and found that I knew the > answer and why I had the feeling that I had visited this problem once > before. The solution is, apparently, one that I had worked out for > myself. The embarrassing thing to admit is that it was at the very > point in the music that caused me a problem when adjusting the layout. > In other words, it was only about 3 weeks ago that I solved the > problem for myself in relation to the very bar that caused me to post > yesterday.
So now the other list members got to see a summarized solution. Looks like a whole lot less time waste than average on the user and/or bug list where we frequently go through the pattern of "but something on the Internet says different", partially including genuine documentation pertaining to different version, countered by pointing to prominent parts of the pertinent manual, followed by "then your search engine optimization strategies suck, it's all your fault, and you should be ashamed" for some fuzzy value of "you" apparently not including the original poster himself. And of course, after this has repeated a few hundred times, newcomers complain about the list being unwelcoming because of a marked lack of enthusiasm. A good degree of my work is invested in squashing questions before they arise which I tend to be more graceful at than answering them. Documentation work is essential but only somewhat effective since many questions are often already answered in some reasonably useful manner in the documentation and of course it is additionally frustrating for the documentation writer to see that work go unnoticed. Making LilyPond simpler to work with, if it can be achieved, usually offers better payoff, but a lot more people are well qualified to improving the documentation or, short of that, answering questions in a reasonably nice manner on the list. What I wanted to say: you're good. Like, really good. Answer one of the more obvious questions, and you're probably offsetting five questions of yours with regard to causing fatigue to others. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
