Re: improving LilyPond useability

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/12/5 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 2013/12/4 Jacques Menu <address@hidden>
>>> My recent experience creating choir scores for the first time, one
>>> of them with difference words a given
>>> stanza in a repeated part (see attachments), makes me think it would
>>> help to have off-the-shelf *commented*
>>> samples of some size and complexity, as a complement to the existing 
>>> snippets.
>>
>> Sounds like a good idea.  I could add some real-life score examples of my 
>> own.
>> Where would you place such material?  A new manual, or in an existing one?
>
> Documentation/ly-examples?
>
> I actually have no idea where those end up, I just sometimes change them
> when new syntax comes around.

Apparently here: http://lilypond.org/examples.html

Which means that it's not quite the right place for them.  For
starters, examples from http://lilypond.org/examples.html are there
because they look nice, not necessarily because their lily code is
pretty; people are not meant to learn LilyPond from them but rather
get impressed by the output.

best,
Janek