Hi Andrew, > I started using Lily for serious maybe a month ago, so I'm what you'd call > new.
Welcome! =) > There's been a lot of mention (I imagine rightfully) about how Lily is > capable, above all, of making beautifully engraved scores, and her > suitability to managing a text-based, distributed, and version/change-tracked > workflow. All of that sounds awesome, but I don't see anywhere where that's > comprehensively documented. Part of the problem is that much of that is still in flux — definitely at too early a stage to spend much time documenting (since it’s all likely to change). We chat about the stylesheet system, but there isn’t even a defined mechanism yet. I rave about the edition-engraver, but its use and implementation changes regularly enough (and we’re still figuring out what it can and should do, and how), so developing “comprehensive documentation” would be foolish. > what I'm really looking for is a comprehensive "best practices" style guide > for how to organize larger scores […] > Urs, I think this would probably dovetail nicely with your efforts to build a > pool of competent engravers, as we would then all be working from the same > style guidelines And would also feed into any templates (as opposed to stylesheets) that openLilyLib puts forth. (Again, once real templates are in place, a lot of these “how do I” questions will be answered for beginning users. However, having a template to use doesn’t in any way give a user the knowledge of how to do it themselves, or why it was or should be done that way; that’s where documentation comes in.) I would be happy to help write a “Best Practices” guide (with whatever small free time I currently have), if only we as a community could agree on what that document would look like, where it would live, and what it would contain. Is it an 11th manual to add to the collection found at <http://www.lilypond.org/website/manuals.html>? That seems the likeliest candidate for my money. Best, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
