On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:50 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > It is a bit disappointing since the info documentation with images is > essential for really getting moving smoothly with Lilypond, and the > procedure for producing them is so broken or obfuscate that none, I > repeat none of _any_ lilypond precompilated versions that I know of > carries them, and there is no way even a clever user could be expected > to arrive at usable docs.
At the risk of putting more gasoline on the fire: I have never found the info docs anything of a priority, not when Jan started it (back in 2003 or whenever it was) and it was always Jan who had to fix build errors in the process. Given that nobody (besides you) else ever complained about the info pages leads me to believe that in reality very few people care about info pages with images. There are other data that support this too: in March, we had 1689 windows downloads, 122 mac, and 107 linux ones on lilypond.org. The latter number may be skewed because some people will get lilypond through their distributor, but still. I believe that the average windows user does not know what info is, and much less has a viewer for it. Speaking from personal experience, I tend to access documentation for whatever I do by searching Google. I suspect this holds for many more people. > It is my opinion that Lilypond developers are shooting themselves quite > unnecessarily in the foot by the large discrepancy between the high > quality of the documentation and the probability of actually getting to > see it after a finite amount of effort. I think the lilypond doc developers are focusing on getting excellent HTML documentation, and I think that is a smart use of resources. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
