Forgive me for jumping in, as this is a long thread and I have only been partially reading it. However, I have a couple of comments which I hope will be useful.
Firstly, I think the new web site looks great. I do not think the current site looks particularly bad (I have seen much worse), but it is fairly basic and a little dated. Lilypond is about producing beautiful music scores and the web site should reflect this. Regarding how to find the 'Alternate input' link, I did find it fairly easily following the 'Introduction' page. I do, however, think that it would be sensible to have this link also also on the 'Download' page, perhaps in the warning about Lilypond being text based. Eg, "To see how Lilypond can be used in other ways, try the alternate input". There has been some discussion about whether people understand what is meant by an editor, environment, etc. Would it help to hide the fact that people are actually using Lilypond directly, and instead refer to "software based on the Lilypond engine"? I must confess that I have not tried most of these editors myself so I do not know how much the actual running of Lilypond is hidden from the user, but if (in the case of Denemo) someone can just point-and-click with the mouse, press a button and then get the output does it matter whether or not they know what is actually editing a text file? Also, referring to "software based on the Lilypond engine" you can pass it off as 3rd party software (and therefore supported by someone else) but give it the Lilypond seal of approval for compatibility. I hope this is useful. Regards, Joe _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
