Simon Albrecht wrote Tuesday, September 22, 2015 7:35 PM
I just came across the Orchestral template in LM A.6.I, and noticed two
flaws, one minor and one serious:
– Double basses usually aren’t notated in a \clef "bass_8", but as
transposing instruments (originating from the time when they were
sharing a staff with the violoncelli). All the scores I have here, from
Beethoven through Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Mahler to Hindemith, confirm
this. I attach a version of the template where this is changed.
Thanks
– The image rendition in the docs is extremely compressed, with
overlapping stuff, staves touching one another &c. This is a really bad
example and needs to be changed; how is this done? I don’t know the
framework in lilypond-book-preamble.ly; certainly there will be someone
who can quickly say how to allow the score more space.
I think for this example all that is needed is to reduce the global staff
size, which is set (unusually) in this file to 17.