2009/5/11 Graham Percival <[email protected]>: > RTF Learning Manual. It's written specifically for this purpose. > - Graham
Really I find this attitude very aggressive, hostile and unwelcoming, and quite unlike all of the other email groups for software that I use. In the case of every question I have asked, I have not only scoured the manuals -- not just the learning manual -- but also searched the snippets repository and the web in general for anything that might give me a clue. Each question has only been asked after *hours* of searching. In the case of every question I have asked, somebody has just told me to "read the manuals" as if I were some sort of idiot. I have to say that I find the manuals very poor -- they assume a lot of prior knowledge, and they are poorly indexed, but this is usual for free software -- documentation almost always lags behind, but usually it's compensated by a friendly user community. I'm very disappointed in the attitude of some members of this group, who seem to want Lilypond to be a private club and don't want the inconvenience of new members. Your hostility and unhelpfulness makes me strongly tempted to go back to Finale, but fortunately /some/ members of the mailing list have a much more welcoming and helpful attitude. If this is not an appropriate place to ask elementary questions that I can't find addressed in the manuals or on the web (even if the answers are buried in there somewhere) then please tell me where I /can/ ask those questions. Otherwise your attitude is simply going to drive people away. Maybe that's what you want. -- Tim Rowe _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
