Re: Using the "articulate.ly" script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

[Tom Cloyd]

On 04/15/2011 04:22 AM, James Lowe wrote:
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> Unfortunately (or not depending on if you think it's because our Doc is so good 
> already) we don't get that many 'formal' requests for documentation changes ..
How sad. Could not we just start over, so we could have a proper 
documentation development discussion list, raging arguments about 
punctuation, et al.? Just think of the time that being needlessly saved 
by the fact that this documentation (and its support through this list) 
is in such fine shape. A pity...

Well, that was obviously not to be taken seriously (except the last part!).

A couple of days ago I pointed the members of the Kubuntu Linux current 
release discussion list to this software (Lilypond), this list, and the 
associated documentation, as flat out the best experience I've ever had 
with software designed for intensive use by non-programmers. My praise 
was glowing, because that's been my experience.

Personally, when a new release of ly comes out, it's the documentation 
that I'm always most excited to see. Reading it - no, exploring it - is 
such a delight and so stimulating, that I've been known skip meals (and 
sleep!) just to stay on track with some subject I'm learning more about 
in the new docs.

The utter magic of seeing my pencil scores spring to live as beautiful 
engraved scores simply never grows old. I'm very pleased to have 
apparently been able today to make a very small contribution to the 
documentation, as that now means I'm no longer just a taker. I hope to 
contribute more in the future. It's an honor to have any association at 
all with this project.

Tom

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