Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: >> IMO, such a page is best reserved until people have a little bit >> of experience with lilypond. > Which will be a quite bad experience without a decent editing > environment...
I agree with Bertalan. Editing environments are great to help people get up to speed with LilyPond. The first thing I did when helping my wife get started with LilyPond (she does most of my first drafts) was to set up LilyPondTool. That removed multiple layers of complexity for her - running LilyPond was a button-click away (rather than using the command-line or navigating to the file in Explorer) and previewing was just as simple as well. I can understand wanting people to know how the internals work before everything is wired up for them. The learning from the bottom-up mentality is definitely the way I think (knowing *how* my car works - rather than just what it does - for example, has been very valuable), but I think it's unrealistic to expect potential users to adopt this mindset overnight, without anyone personally helping them in the process. Chris Snyder Adoro Music Publishing 1-616-828-4436 x800 http://www.adoromusicpub.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
