Re: Date in the footer and Headers/Footers/Titles

[Ian Hulin]

Ian Hulin wrote:
> Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> > > Then I suggest
> > >   Titles, Headings, Headers, Footers
> > > or something similar to avoid the nasty `/'.
> >
> > Headings (Titles) and Margin Text (Headers and Footers)
>
> 3.2. Titles Headings and Front-Matter
>
> 3.2.1 Titles Headings and Front-Matter
> <Current 3.2.1 text, this bit describes things you set up for the whole 
> score "book", Score Titles, subtitles etc. etc, also one-off things like 
> tag-lines>
>
> 3.2.2 Custom Titles and Section Headings
> <First part of current 3.2.2 - bookTitleMarkup nd scoreTitleMarkup)
>
> 3.2.3  Headers and Footers
> <things that affect each page, so point the reader off to discussions of 
> the oddHeaderMarkup, evenHeaderMarkup, oddFooterMarkup, evenFooterMarkup 
> and related properties in \page.>
Sorry - hit the send button too soon - this should read

3.2.3 Headers and Footers
<current 3.2.2 second bit, plus any other \page properties that affect 
the appearance each page in the score>
>        
>
> <snip>
>
> Current definition of \header (in NR 3.1.3 File Structure)
> A \header block. This sets the global header block. This is the block 
> containing the definitions for book-wide settings, like composer, title, 
> etc.
>
> I propose renaming this to \front-matter, since most of the stuff 
> mentioned in this quote from the NR describes things that appear at the 
> start of a typical score, and the term header implies something this 
> block doesn't actually do (header as in headers and footers).
> I suppose another possibility for the name might be \headings, if people 
> want something similar to existing syntax.
>
> The current \header behaves differently depending on whether it's at top 
> level or in a \score, when it only processes the title and opus 
> properties.  Maybe it would be a good idea to give it a separate name, 
> (\score-headings, \section-headings ?) and add some validation to make 
> sure it is used inside a \score block?

Cheers,

Ian Hulin