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Re: GUI
From: |
Owain Sutton |
Subject: |
Re: GUI |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:19:00 +0000 |
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:01 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:32:50PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> >> > If you can suggest an improvement, especially in the
> >> > Introduction pages, please do.
> >>
> >> LilyPondTool, Frescobaldi, Emacs and Vim are listed under
> >> "Alternate Input." Since this link is to the right of "Text
> >> Input," the implication is that they are alternatives to text
> >> input, which of course is false: All the information under the
> >> "Text input" link applies to these programs.
> >
> > Hmm. I'm trying to tie these two together: text input and
> > alternate input are both the same color, and end in "input".
> >
> >> Maybe change "Alternate Input" to "Input software," or "Input
> >> programs," or "Progams, At least One of Which You Will Use to Enter
> >> Your Scores if You At All Value Your Time and Sanity."
> >
> > I'm willing to change the name, but I'm not convinced that any of
> > thsoe are more attractive than "alternate input". More to the point,
> > the bottom of "text input" tries to direct people there, with the
> > "easier editing environments" stuff.
>
> "Input aids".
>
> > Hmm, on second thought, what about calling it "Easier editing"? That
> > alliterates, so it gets a 20% bonus to its attractiveness. :)
>
> But it is mostly wrong since the graphical programs usually don't allow
> editing existing input at all, but rather _generate_ or export Lilypond
> input.
>
'Aids' isn't much better for the layman than 'editor', 'GUI', etc. How
about 'Other input methods'?
- Re: GUI, (continued)
- Re: GUI, David Kastrup, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, Graham Percival, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, Francisco Vila, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, David Kastrup, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, Tim McNamara, 2009/12/18
Re: GUI, Graham Percival, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, Francisco Vila, 2009/12/18
Re: GUI, David Kastrup, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI,
Owain Sutton <=
- Re: GUI, James Lowe, 2009/12/18
Re: GUI, Ian Hulin, 2009/12/18
Re: GUI, Federico Bruni, 2009/12/18
Re:GUI, Jonathan Wilkes, 2009/12/18