Re: NR 2.1 Vocal music

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:15:18AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote Tuesday, September 07, 2010 8:14 PM
> 
> >Hmm... I'm not certain about the paper-size and indent.
> 
> Happy to remove paper size and landscape, and book,
> but I'd like to keep indent 0 to show the separator
> in a more realistic context.

Ok.  Alternately, we could have three systems in there?  I'm
content either way.

> >Is that example missing anything important?
> 
> Well, that's pretty well the example that is already
> shown in 4.1.2 Other layout variables, so I assumed
> you wanted something better as you thought "the current
> doc page about page-separator-markup is rather
> un-optimal."

Sorry, my fault; I was unclear.  I was referring to its location,
hard-to-find-ness, and being buried in the middle of a long doc
section which mostly had nothing to do with the separator mark.

> >I suppose it might be
> >nice to add a StaffGroup in there rarther than only having a
> >single staff... but I think this gets to the heart of the matter.
> 
> Definitely better with a staff group of some sort.
> You'd never use a system separator with a single staff.

I've seen it done in student compositions... generally because
they "couldn't get finale to stop doing it".  :)

> >I mean, system separators are pretty much on par with StaffGroup
> >-- it's something you add to a (large) score to improve
> >readability.  I'd totally go for a 1.6.1 Separating staves, to
> >come at the end fo the current 1.6.1.
> 
> OK, I will move it there.

Thanks!

Cheers,
- Graham