Re: Aligning relative to page - Use OOoLilyPond

2007-07-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> If you have the technical capability to complain about the docs, you > have the technical ability to improve those docs. Hear, hear! This is a good saying, worth to remember. Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://

Re: Aligning relative to page - Use OOoLilyPond

2007-07-12 Thread sdfgsdhdshd
Laura Conrad wrote: > > if there's ever a system for aligning text on the > page that's anything like as sophisticated as a good publishing > program has, it will take the amount of person-years of work that the > good publishing programs spent on it. Which I'm sure is 10's of years > if not hu

Re: Aligning relative to page - Use OOoLilyPond

2007-07-12 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Werner" == Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I gave up trying to understand the \markup documentation when I >> discovered I could use OOoLilyPond to create png score snippets >> for each hymn that I could paste into MS Word documents >> containing the text of th

Re: Aligning relative to page - Use OOoLilyPond

2007-07-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/7/12, Paul Harouff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Valentin, I'm not trying to start an email flame war. But it really bothers me when programmers get condescending with users, implying that we are stupid if we can't understand the documentation, or if we don't have all hundreds of pages of snippets u

Re: Aligning relative to page - Use OOoLilyPond

2007-07-12 Thread Graham Percival
Paul Harouff wrote: The problem with the LilyPond documentation is that users ... don't contribute as much as they should. http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding If I could wave a magic wand to get perfect documentation, I would. If I could turn into a magical ani

Re: Aligning relative to page - Use OOoLilyPond

2007-07-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> But it really bothers me when programmers get condescending with > users, implying that we are stupid if we can't understand the > documentation, or if we don't have all hundreds of pages of snippets > using complex overrides and Scheme tweaks memorized. Well, we *need* to know what you don't un

RE: Aligning relative to page - Use OOoLilyPond

2007-07-11 Thread Paul Harouff
Valentin, I'm not trying to start an email flame war. But it really bothers me when programmers get condescending with users, implying that we are stupid if we can't understand the documentation, or if we don't have all hundreds of pages of snippets using complex overrides and Scheme tweaks memori