Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Jun 2009, at 14:04, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I like the suggestion LilyPond - Free music notation Thanks. Though I though though of it as "Free music notation!" also implying that music notation ought to be freed (since other music notation isn't free) :-). But it is just an input - u

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> How about: > LilyPond - You're free to compose. > LilyPond - Notation unleashed. I like the suggestion LilyPond - Free music notation Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Mark Polesky
interesting... this is one of only 5 screenshots for GIMP. Nice picture. http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/windows_crop.jpg - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
The video demo could add: "Don't worry, you can see here that is not so difficult". When I started, I was encouraged by the demos provided by LilypondTool website: http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/demo.html Yes, that was one of the main purposes of them. Actually for the crash course, we could

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
The first version only has stable links, but the box looked a bit too small. Also, other open-source projects proudly display their development version numbers... even though we don't want innocent users trying out devel versions (we prefer corrupted users for that :), I think it's still nice to h

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
- Why include the unstable version on the homepage? - I would organize it as "Latest version: 2.12.3" in the head block of the download box, and just have a "Download" and a "Download manuals" as the links. (Actually while LilyPond has documentation, people like manuals more, and thanks to GDP,

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Mark Polesky
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Possibly we should also think of >- a better slogan? it seems to me that "Sibelius 6 - Perfect scores" > is more attractive than "music notation for everyone." > possibly something vaguely like: > beautiful scores, share the experience. > "f

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Federico Bruni
Tim McNamara wrote: 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 t

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Jun 2009, at 09:31, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: - some attractive pictures. we tried with monet's lilies, and while appropriate, ... This link gave about 125000 pictures: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Nymphaea&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&oq= This link has some nice pic

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:31:31AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op woensdag 24-06-2009 om 14:15 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham > Percival: > > > Here you go: > > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html > > This is just Great. > > I feel simple improvements could

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Jun 2009, at 09:31, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: - a better slogan? it seems to me that "Sibelius 6 - Perfect scores" is more attractive than "music notation for everyone." possibly something vaguely like: beautiful scores, share the experience. "for everyone" seems tha

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Jun 2009, at 01:30, Jonathan Kulp wrote: I think it'd be nice to see a link to the crash course on the Documentation page as well, inside the "Introduction" box. Maybe even a parenthetical (brand new users should see the "crash course" as well) or something along those lines. One mi

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 24 Jun 2009, at 23:15, Graham Percival wrote: Here you go: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html I think the LilyPond logo should be to the left, tne reason being that one reads LTR. Big sites do that, for example http://news.bbc.co.uk/ http://edition.cnn.com

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op woensdag 24-06-2009 om 14:15 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham Percival: > Here you go: > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html This is just Great. I feel simple improvements could be - add margins, esp horizontal ones - even less colours, stick to one? basic

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:08:52PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: >> Here you go: >> http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html > > Graham, you're doing this all in texinfo, right? Are your sourcefiles > available? I'd like to see them and try using this

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 08:47:06PM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: > > On Jun 24, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Mark Polesky wrote: >> 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 anythin

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:47:06PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > > 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,

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:30:16PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > I think it'd be nice to see a link to the crash course on the > Documentation page as well, inside the "Introduction" box. Maybe even a > parenthetical (brand new users should see the "crash course" as well) or > something along

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-24 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: Here you go: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html Cheers, - Graham Graham, you're doing this all in texinfo, right? Are your sourcefiles available? I'd like to see them and try using this format for my own website, which could really use revi

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-24 Thread Tim McNamara
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

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-24 Thread Mark Polesky
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

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-24 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: Here you go: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html Cheers, - Graham 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!) I think it'd b

new website: second draft

2009-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
Here you go: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user