1980s manuals tended to be in a lie-flat ring-bound format, as far as I remember? They had cross-references which were just begging for someone to invent HTML!
On 17:09, Fri 19 Sep 2014, Larry Kent wrote: > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:09:37 -0400 > From: Larry Kent <kentla...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Printed manuals, why not? > To: Son_V <vincenzo.a...@gmail.com> > Cc: "LilyPond, User group" <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > List-Id: LilyPond user discussion <lilypond-user.gnu.org> > > I agree completely with the sentiment. > > However, because LilyPond changes so frequently, it would have to be almost > like a subscription with loose-leaf pages in a binder, so that when > something changes, we could print out replacement pages. > > I haven't thought through this, but maybe something like: Say that Chapter > 1 includes pages 1-1 through 1-40 and when an update occurred we could > replace pages 1-3 through 1-8 with pages 1-3a through 1-8d (and then the > next page would still be page 1-9 etc). > > Larry Kent > Tampa FL > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Son_V <vincenzo.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, I would be glad to have the option to buy printed manuals for > > LilyPond; I > > thought of making it from some printing service, but for a 834 page book I > > should pay 40 Euro, something like 55USD. It could (maybe) be something to > > have a contribution. Has no one thought about this? Thanks. > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Printed-manuals-why-not-tp166619.html > > Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > lilypond-user@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
