Hello,
I recall that I was always thinking it would be best to have a person at
hand, maybe even sharing a ‘bureau’, who could answer my question. Or
attending a class, in which one would for example be guided in coding
example scores, and receive immediate feedback. Later I realised that I
might have saved much time asking on the ly-user list, of which I
somehow only got wind after some time. But these wishes are of course
far from reality: we may only dream of a future in which every
university music student or even pupils at music schools would be taught
basics of lilypond as a standard tool, similar perhaps to the use of
LaTeX in maths and physics…
Anyway, reading together everything on the internet from very extensive
resources has been really cumbersome, especially as I hadn’t done it
before or known the way to do this.
Now that’s only a report of my experience. I’d have to make some
thorough thoughts on how this might have been eased.
Yours, Simon
PS. But in the course of years, I got the grip and now I get along
pretty well :-) Though, it’s a never-ending way, if one goes on delving
into scheme and the source and the docs and contributing etc. etc. … But
rewarding it is.
Am 22.04.2015 um 17:09 schrieb Abraham Lee:
All,
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, even going so far as to
create my own "Quick Start" tutorials for new users, but I can only go
so far in my own head. I really have two questions that I keep
wondering about:
1. What is the thing you (especially new users) like the least about
LilyPond's documentation structure?
2. If you could have the same documentation structure as found in
another notation program, which program is it? Or put another way:
Is there a notation program out there that has a documentation
structure you like?
I'm asking this because I'm trying to determine how we in the 'Pond
can make it easier for new users to jump in with both feet instead of
dipping a toe and getting scared of the deep.
I may be over-thinking this, but I keep getting the feeling that
people are scared of using LilyPond partially because the
documentation, though deep and detailed, is a little too deep and
technical for new users who are familiar with a GUI program and less
familiar with programming.
Any thoughts? I think I'm mostly interested in comments related to the
*Learning* and *Notation* manuals, but comments about the others are
welcome, too.
I can't say that I'm proposing any massive changes to the
documentation, but I'd like to know if there's something else that
would be more new user-friendly.
- Abraham
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