Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 38, Issue 17

[Werner LEMBERG]

> My input *is* informative and is based on years of professional
> experience and expertise.

Linda, we believe you.

> I would also state that development efforts are helped tremendously
> if a specialist in user interface design evaluates development every
> step of the way.  The most successful development projects in
> industry are tested for months by user experience or marketing
> organizations.

This is reasonable, of course.  Can you help here?  We don't have an
expert for those issues.  But please bear in mind that lilypond itself
is a command line tool and never will be something else.  This follows
the UNIX tradition (which is far older than the Windows one -- and
which is still alive).

> There shouldn't be so much aversion to feedback and comments.  I'm
> not interested in being a cheerleader or a yes-man.

You are completely misinterpreting the answers.  Noone is arguing that
you present valid critique, but praising Windows and Windows programs
which are known for notorious bugs, and which aren't really usable for
serious projects larger than a few pages -- just think of index
generation and footnote handling -- isn't really helpful.

The most valuable help you can give, I believe, is in improving the
manual and tuturial since users must read it before they can do
anything with lilypond.


    Werner