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Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions


From: Wols Lists
Subject: Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:27:17 +0100
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 On 12/10/10 22:05, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>>> I'll stop if I am really showing my ignorance (I am not a code
>>> developer),
>> I'm afraid you're showing your ignorance as a musician.
>> System and score are not synonomous.  A system is a "line"
>> of music which includes the all the staves which are
>> grouped together.
> Yes, but I see some weaknesses in our docs.
> - Glossary: staff  should link to system
> - Glossary: both staff and system  could benefit from images
> - Learning: add some link(s) to Glossary: system.  Currently we
>   have none!
> address@hidden:~/src/lilypond/Documentation/learning$ git grep
> "@rgloss{system}" 

Add "stave" to this. Actually, I would have defined a stave as a line of
music, and a system as a group of linked staves played simultaneously.
But that all depends on how you understand the word "line" :-)
> I would recommend adding this to Learning 2 Tutorial.  Maybe
> somewhere in 2.3 Multiple notes at once; maybe somewhere in
> 2.5 Final touches.  I'll let somebody else think about it in more
> detail and produce a patch.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
>
Cheers,
Wol



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