Re: constructive criticism

2004-01-09 Thread Dave Pawson
At 20:56 09/01/2004, Jeffery B. Rancier wrote: Dave Pawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the documentation were in docbook, its far more approachable > than texinfo (IMHO). Any thoughts on what Norm Walsh says here: http://norman.walsh.name/2003/05/21/docbook As of today,

Re: constructive criticism

2004-01-09 Thread Dave Pawson
At 19:05 08/01/2004, François Pinard wrote: [John Williams] > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > Why not edit the texinfo source directly, and send a patch? > You are asking the users to learn texinfo, diff and patch before they > can help you. And as someone else pointed out, if they install a prebuilt

Re: glossary.

2003-12-16 Thread Dave Pawson
At 17:22 16/12/2003, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> http://www.nongnu.org/xml2ly/ > > Great. Then the XXX to lilypond will be just as easy. Except that you lose anything in XXX that cannot be expressed in xml. Hence my other comment. The central item is the XML, that's the interchange standard? X

Re: glossary.

2003-12-16 Thread Dave Pawson
At 10:29 16/12/2003, Mats Bengtsson wrote: I *think* we both need 1. A web feed, html based. You want embedded lilypond code I want embedded images. You misunderstand, the embedded LilyPond code is used to produce the images, that's what we all want. The program lilypond-book simply takes a doc

Re: glossary.

2003-12-16 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:49 16/12/2003, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Please keep the discussions on the mailing list as I'm not one of the main authors of LilyPond. Sorry Mats. I'm not subscribed to lilypond list, hence I guessed my mail would bounce from there. I'm not sure what operating system you are using, but on Lin

Re: glossary.

2003-12-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:47 15/12/2003, Mats Bengtsson wrote: As has already been pointed out on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, the glossary.eps file distributed with musixTeX is an old copy of the glossary included in the LilyPond distribution and there have been several additions and changes since then. It see

glossary.

2003-12-15 Thread Dave Pawson
Not having seen the html glossary http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-11-04-a.html I have, this week, transcribed the eps version from musixTex into docbook xml, under fdl. Its been suggested that I could work with you to keep the best of both? My copy currently at www.dpawson.co.uk/smrf/gloss.html re