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Re: settings for headwords
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Neil Puttock |
Subject: |
Re: settings for headwords |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:16:46 +0100 |
2008/7/17 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:18:06 +0100
> "Neil Puttock" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The keyboard headword did have text in the margins, but that was only
>> because it was ragged.
>
> I'm not certain about that. Is there any reason *not* to use the
> \layout settings which avoid ugly output? If text lines would fit
> within the page anyway, then the settings only add half a second to
> the compile time; if the output *would* look bad, then those
> settings solve that problem.
Why add redundant \layout settings? None of the other snippets has
text spilling into the margins.
>> > - why remove the key signature and enable proportional notation in
>> > the rhythm example? That might be appropriate if this were some
>> > 20th century piece, but this is pure Beethoven.
>>
>> You mean the time signature? It's a personal thing, and I apologize
>> for not running it past you first, but it seems silly to have a time
>> signature present when the excerpt doesn't start at the beginning.
>
> Hmm. The same could be said about any of these exerpts. I'd
> rather keep the time signature in there.
Apart from the snippets which start at the beginning.
I'll reinstate the ones I've removed.
> Ok, could you update all the snippets to use the new \paper
> settings?
Will do, though I don't plan on removing ragged-right = ##t for the
remaining items.
Regards,
Neil