From 8b303a976f79c3f94676d79c9cee3ef0b760a229 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 23:46:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (Example applications): add note about databases and
lilypond-book.
---
ChangeLog | 3 +++
Documentation/user/introduction.itely | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 48aad8899e..412337b03b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2003-07-02 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
+ * Documentation/user/introduction.itely (Example applications):
+ add note about databases and lilypond-book.
+
* input/test/volta.ly: remove file
* input/regression/volta-broken-left-edge.ly: simplify file
diff --git a/Documentation/user/introduction.itely b/Documentation/user/introduction.itely
index a6fefdf8d0..19e7b4c3cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/introduction.itely
+++ b/Documentation/user/introduction.itely
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ design, and how this approach affects you as a user.
@cindex Batch
@cindex UNIX
-LilyPond is a @emph{batch} program. To use, one enters commands in a
-file, and the program is run on that file. The output is produced
-without requiring any user-interaction.
+LilyPond is a @emph{batch} program. To use it, one enters commands in a
+file, and runs the program on that file. The output is produced without
+requiring any further interaction.
When we started developing LilyPond, we were still studying at the
university. We were interested in music notation, not as publishers
@@ -392,10 +392,21 @@ a lead sheet.
The following example combines some more exotic uses of notation
-@lilypondfile{screech-boink.ly}
+@lilypondfile{screech-boink.ly}
+The fragments shown above have all been written by hand, but that is not
+a requirement. Since the formatting engine is mostly automatic, it can
+serve as an output means for other programs that manipulate music. It
+can also be used to convert databases of musical fragments to images for
+use on websites on multimedia presentations.
+
+This manual also shows an application: the input format is plain text,
+and can therefore be easily embedded in other text-based formats, such
+as La@TeX{}, HTML or in the case of this manual, Texinfo. By means of a
+special program, the input fragments can be replaced by music images in
+the resulting PostScript or HTML output files. This makes it easy to
+mix music and text in documents.
-TODO: show automated formatting example.
@node About this manual
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