Re: lilypond teaching material

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi Gilles,

It’s in the line of what is called a ‘Hello World’ program in computing. It’s 
the bare minimum that compiles and runs and outputs something absolutely 
minimal, and establishes that all your machinery is up and running and that you 
can go on from there. In this respect, it’s a perfectly good example, and 
useful for people starting. You have to start somewhere, and presenting a 
complete lilypond score skeleton with all its complexities can come later.


Andrew





On 16/09/2015, 20:57, "Gilles" <address@hidden on behalf of address@hidden> 
wrote:

>Hello.
>
>On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:49:04 +0200, BB wrote:
>> I just read
>> 
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/entering-input.html
>> (again). I find that is a good basis for such an introduction,
>
>IIRC, someone (among the most prominent current or past developers)
>once stated that this first example being compilable by lilypond had
>been a big mistake.
>
>Perhaps it was meant to show people that text input is not scary.
>But its simplicity is deceitful: no actual score is that simple; even
>a monophonic instrument part should not be encoded that way.
>
>>