Re: Band parts - a newbie's view

[Mats Bengtsson]

> > Two other annoyances (and in my mind they're UI blunders ...). 
> > Practically every piece of music I've played that has letter rehearsal 
> > marks DOES use the letter I. It's fine to have a default that doesn't, 
>
>
> you have a point there.  The first part I checked this in (old B&H)
> does have the letter I, but lacks the letter J. Can anyone provide
> useful statistics? We're looking for the layout of classical
> orchestral material.

I've seen lots of scores that use I but not J and lots that have
J but not I. The only rule I can see is that you almost never use
both I and J in the same score, to reduce the risk of confusing them.

   /Mats