Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:45:33AM +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote:
> On 2010-10-13 00:27, Wols Lists wrote:
> >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" :-)
> 
> "Stave" or "staff"?!  Are these identical?  I thought "stave" is
> just a wrong singular form of "staves", which itself is the correct
> plural of "staff"?

In GDP, we standardized on either "staffs" or "staves", but I
forget which one we picked, and it didn't make it into the
"General writing" section of the CG.

The answer should be in the mailing list archives, though.

Cheers,
- Graham