Re: Documentation suggestions.

2020-02-06 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 05/02/2020 à 23:30, Michael Käppler a écrit : Dear Peter, it would be nice if you could register yourself at Rietveld. If you already have a Google account it should be straightforward, I think. Please see the updated issue at: https://codereview.appspot.com/579280043/ You don't need a Goog

Re: Documentation suggestions.

2020-02-05 Thread Michael Käppler
thing to the meaning. I'd say "Men cannot live forever" rather than "All men cannot live forever". But "All people must die" is OK (as a fact), has a slightly different meaning from than "People must die" (which might be a command to an assassination squ

Re: Documentation suggestions.

2020-02-05 Thread Peter Toye
' from the start of your rewritten patch; it doesn't add anything to the meaning. I'd say "Men cannot live forever" rather than "All men cannot live forever". But "All people must die" is OK (as a fact), has a slightly

Re: Documentation suggestions.

2020-02-05 Thread Michael Käppler
Hello Peter, Am 04.02.2020 um 10:44 schrieb Peter Toye: I'm posting this here, as no-one on the devel list has answered, although most of the discussion went on in that list. I think that many developers spend their effort on core topics like the guile-2/3 transition, or improving the contrib

Re: Documentation suggestions.

2020-01-31 Thread Peter Toye
I've now consolidated the various replies to my original suggestions - sorry it's been so long. Unfortunately I spent far too much time fighting VirtualBox and Linux without as much success as I'd like. So here are my - fairly small- documentation ideas. Sorry I couldn't make formal patches but

Re: Documentation suggestions.

2020-01-01 Thread Peter Toye
- Tuesday, December 31, 2019, 8:06:06 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Peter (et al.), >> 2. Neither LM nor NR mention that the default language for entering pitches >> is English. > It is?! When did that change? > If I write > \version "2.19.83" > { fis'4 }

Re: Documentation suggestions.

2019-12-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter (et al.), > 2. Neither LM nor NR mention that the default language for entering pitches > is English. It is?! When did that change? If I write \version "2.19.83" { fis'4 } it compiles without error. So I think the default is not English. > 6. NR Section 3.2 'Titles and Heade

Documentation suggestions.

2019-12-30 Thread Peter Toye
I originally sent this to the bug mailing list. Thomas Morley suggests that it would be better on this list. As an occasional and fairly new Lilypond user I've found that the documentation is occasionally obscure or misleading. I've made a few suggestions below. I've used the 2.19.83 document

Re: link to documentation suggestions

2007-07-03 Thread John Mandereau
Le mardi 03 juillet 2007 à 11:05 +0200, John Mandereau a écrit : > Le lundi 02 juillet 2007 à 23:47 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : > > Hi John, > > > > Would it be possible to add a link to the > > http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding > > page in the HTML footer? I'm

Re: link to documentation suggestions

2007-07-03 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 02 juillet 2007 à 23:47 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : > Hi John, > > Would it be possible to add a link to the > http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding > page in the HTML footer? I'm thinking of something like > > If you have any suggestions for the document

link to documentation suggestions

2007-07-02 Thread Graham Percival
Hi John, Would it be possible to add a link to the http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding page in the HTML footer? I'm thinking of something like If you have any suggestions for the documentation, please see _documentation suggestions_ (where _foo_ is the actual lin