On Jun 24, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Mark Polesky wrote:
Jonathan Kulp wrote:
I like the new website, Graham. The crash course is excellent,
although I
question whether it's good to have lyrics like "Lily, got me on my
knees."
(Whew!)
Actually, as much as *I* like the joke, I'm afraid I agree with Jon.
Many the get the joke might chuckle, but those that don't might just
be disturbed. For a moment I thought of suggesting to change it to
Lily, I'm begging, darling please.
But now, I don't know, that might be pushing it too.
Curious to know other's thoughts.
Also, just to respond to a previous comment, I do *NOT* think the
crash course is overwhelming. If we pare it down too much, it's going
to elicit thoughts of "can I do anything other than Twinkle Twinkle
Little Star?"
As a recent newbie, please allow me to offer a little feedback on
this: the crash course is overwhelming. IMHO the newbie crashes
into the bottom the the abrupt and nearly vertical learning curve
presented there. I tried it back in the 2.10 days and didn't come
back to try again until 2.12. I wonder how many other newbies we
have lost in the same way. LilyPond's input method looks like
computer programming and not music, and most musicians are not
computer programmers. So IMHO we have to find ways to ease them into
it and not scare them off.
Learning to use LilyPond is like learning to use Emacs. Lots of
power, which comes at the price of a bit of work to learn how to use
it. IMHO most newbies should not see the crash course until after
they have seen the introductions in the LM. I plan to have a look
through the LM again and make some suggestions for changes to the
documentation that would have helped me get into it more quickly and
easily, in hopes that those things would help others in the same
way. Maybe it will end up being the "Pre-Learning Manual Manual."
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