GDP: perl programmer needed for creating HTML docs

2007-09-26 Thread Graham Percival
We currently use `makeinfo --html' to build the online documentation. Makeinfo is the normal way to create texinfo docs, but it lacks many useful features. Most importantly, it can't create HTML pages split into subsections; it only creates split output based on nodes. texi2html has many more ab

Re: GDP - Learning Manuall Songs section

2007-09-26 Thread Graham Percival
Trevor Daniels wrote: This is rather short at present, and I would like to extend it. The question is, by how much. I'd welcome your views on the suggestions below. In particular, is this too long? Does this cover too many/too few topics? I've been thinking about the Tutorial vs. the rest of

GDP: Pitches

2007-09-26 Thread Graham Percival
(Michael: this discussion doesn't greatly influence your own formatting work on Pitches -- whatever we decide here, those changes still need to be made. Other than moving the sections.) Ok, let's start the other half of real GDP work (two halves: formatting and rewriting) by examining Pitches.

GDP: display "Known issues" instead of "Bugs"

2007-09-26 Thread Graham Percival
Anybody object to this change? I'm looking at Micro tones right now: Bugs There are no generally accepted standards for denoting three-quarter flats, so LilyPond's symbol does not conform to any standard. IMO this isn't really a _bug_, so I propose using the more general term "kno

Images missing in learning manual doc build

2007-09-26 Thread Graham Percival
John, sorry to add another thing to your plate, but could you investigate this? When I do "make web" in Documentation/user/ the manual is great. Images for all examples, everything working in Documentation/user/out-www/ When I then do "make web" in the topdir, the Learning Manual is missing

Re: Related to GDP

2007-09-26 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Related to what I just wrote in my email on "GDP - Learning Manuall Songs section", I hereby volunteer to write an introduction to the art of setting properties in LilyPond. The intention is just to provide a first overview of the different options available. Would this b

Re: accidental changes: review

2007-09-26 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/9/26, Juergen Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am just curious: Why not introducing a new class "Octaveless_pitch" > or "Octave_Pitch" (i.e. pitch within an octave) that contains all of > "Pitch" except for the octaves, and then making "Pitch" a subclass of > "Octaveless_pitch" that just adds

GDP: regrouping and plan

2007-09-26 Thread Graham Percival
I've updated GDP stuff at: http://opihi.cs.uvic.ca/~gperciva/ There you can find rewritten/expanded instructions for GDP Formatters and Rewriters (formally known as "trivial/easy/" and "medium" -- I always felt bad about typing "trivial") and the most recent version of the docs. Helpers: p

Related to GDP

2007-09-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham, Related to what I just wrote in my email on "GDP - Learning Manuall Songs section", I hereby volunteer to write an introduction to the art of setting properties in LilyPond. The intention is just to provide a first overview of the different options available. You probably want to put i

Re: GDP - Learning Manuall Songs section

2007-09-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Most of the _concepts_ associated with lyrics need to be introduced in the Learning Manual, as they are pretty well all needed whenever lyrics need to be set. But only the minimum number of technicalities should be covered; all alternative methods and

Re: accidental changes: review

2007-09-26 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/26/07, Juergen Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > > 2007/9/25, Rune Zedeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > + int octave_; > + int notename_; > + Rational alteration_; > >>> > >>> Why don't you use a Pitch object for this combination?

GDP - Learning Manuall Songs section

2007-09-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
As one of the GDP helpers I'm having a first look at the Songs section which is to go into the new Learning Manual. It will be based on the Tutorial Songs section (section 2.4) in the present User Manual. This is rather short at present, and I would like to extend it. The question is, by how mu

Re: accidental changes: review

2007-09-26 Thread Juergen Reuter
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: 2007/9/25, Rune Zedeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: + int octave_; + int notename_; + Rational alteration_; Why don't you use a Pitch object for this combination? You would get Scale* for free. Primarily because the two values octave_ and has_octave_

Re: Documentation error, dynamics and polyphony

2007-09-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Michael Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On page: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Dynamics#Dynamics It gives a warning and example: Because these marks are bound to notes, you must use spacer notes if multiple marks are needed during one note c\< c\! d