Re: Template: String Quartet (score-only), first draft

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:58:58 -0400
Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

> \header
> {

The rest of the docs place the { or << on the same line:
\header {
Please do the same here.

global = {
>       s1*4
>       \bar "|."
> }

I very rarely include s1*4 \bar "|." in my global variable -- is
this good practice?

>       c4.(\p d8) e4-. e-.   | % 1
>       e8( d f e d4) r   | % 2

Why manually number the bars?  It's true that users can delete
them easily, but they should be very familiar with
one-bar-per-line by now.  I definitely like the explicit bar
checks, though.  :)

> celloNotes = \relative c
> {
>       \clef bass
>       c8\p c c c c c c c   | % 1
>       g g g g g4 r   | % 2

... and people ask me why I stopped playing cello after 21 years
of study and am learning violin... :(

>               \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "Violin I" }

Interesting!  I hadn't realized that you could set up
instrumentName like this!
- is it worth including instr or shortName or whatever that
  command is called these days?
- how do you feel about adding a newline after the \with { ?
  Again, that's the style of the rest of the docs.

>       %\midi { }  %% uncomment this line to enable MIDI output

- manual style calls for comments to be placed on the line above:
       %% uncomment this line to enable MIDI output
       % \midi{}

- manual style uses two-space indents.  This is important for
  looking at the docs in info and/or @example.  Texinfo doesn't
  always respect tabs, so we have to use spaces manually.  :(


The actual material looks good; I'm happy to withdraw my objection
to "real music".

Cheers,
- Graham