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On 12/10/10 14:02, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>> I still think a *user* (not programmer or code developer) is going to really
>> get frustrated when they don't know what a system is i.e... 'oh you mean the
>> stuff with the notes in...we call that a 'score' where I come from.
> The entire music engraving world -- not just Lilypond, but Finale/Sib/etc.
> and the traditional hand-engravers -- call a single line of music spanning
> the width of a single page a "system", and the entire collection of systems a
> "score".
>
> If Lilypond users are confused because they don't have an understanding of
> that basic and universal terminology, they should read (1) some engraving
> books, and (2) the Lilypond introductory documentation.
3) Take a basic music theory course.
For a musician to get that wrong is as seriously incompetent as for a
computer guy to refer to a hard disk as ram (I know the
man-in-the-street tends to call them both "memory").
Cheers,
Wol
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, (continued)
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- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Dmytro O. Redchuk, 2010/10/12
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, James, 2010/10/12
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