Re: documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
In the doc source, we add commands like @cindex beaming @funindex [] There is no automatic testing for this, but I'm certain that our doc build correctly links the index entry to the place where the command was placed in the doc source. As far as I know, there is nobody currently working on

Re: documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Hugh Myers
Graham, My area of expertise is editing and one of the things that often make or break a set of docs are the indexes for each manual. Do we have any kind of regression scheme (sorry about the pun) to check for problems peculiar to an index? For instance does each citation in the index lead to a pa

Re: documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
No, that's fine -- we already have somebody to handle the git+compile+doc policy stuff. So far I have no indication that he's overwhelmed with work. If you're up for writing a few lilypond examples (say, creating an example of \bendAfter using a non-integer argument), *that* could be useful... bu

Re: documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:54:52PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Graham, > > > and think you might be able to help with category 3 > > Check... ok. Take a look at http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=989 in particular, see if you can suggest an example for the NR to take ca

Re: documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Francisco Vila
2010/3/22 Graham Percival : > If you belong to category 1, and think you might be able to help > with category 3, please contact category 2 (CC'd on this email) or > me. Nobody is cc'd on this email AFAICT I can apply patches and check compilation. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.

Re: documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, > 1. we have a number of users who know a lot about lilypond, but > are not familiar with git + compiling + our doc policies. Hey... that's me!!! Well, I know some about it -- but it doesn't seem to work on my machine very well, so what's the diff?? [pun intended ;)] > 2. we have a

Re: documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Jonathan Kulp
I should be able to handle some git committing / compile checking, and stuff like that if others can do the worst of the typing. Jon On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > Here's the current situation with the documentation. > > 1. we have a number of users who know a lot abou

documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
Here's the current situation with the documentation. 1. we have a number of users who know a lot about lilypond, but are not familiar with git + compiling + our doc policies. 2. we have a doc editor on Windows who knows about git+compiling+doc policies, but knows relatively little about l