"Graham" == Graham Percival<address@hidden> writes:
Graham> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 07:51:03PM -0700, Carl Sorensen wrote:
Graham> I'd rather keep them at the end, to somewhat discourage their
Graham> use. Only music history geeks will understand them; \treble
Graham> is much more widely understood.
Not entirely true. Music theoreticians will also understand them --
the `treble' clef is a G clef on the second staff line; the `bass'
clef is an F clef on the fourth staff line -- that's how it was always
explained to me when I was learning music. And check the Wikipedia
article on Clef.