Re: GDP: flattening the manual to two layers?

[Graham Percival]

Valentin Villenave wrote:
> I suggested avoiding subsubsections such as in current Vocal music.
> Graham is reluctant to make more chapters (still can't forget about
> his "four letters" answer in a private mail :)

Ok, come on, it was hilarious!  But we really need to explain this.

John and Valentin were dithering about Vocal music: "should we leave it 
in instrument-specific, or make it a new chapter... but it's too short 
to be a chapter by itself... what to do, what to do...?"

My response:

"hmm, yeah... vocal music is tricky.  If only we had a dedicated chapter 
for putting words on the page... especially if we had a new, dedicated 
chapter, that was much shorter than the other chapters... we could give 
that chapter a nice short name, like "word", or maybe something else 
with four letters..."


Poor Valentin thought I was swearing at him*.  I, of course, was 
referring to the new chapter "Text".


* in English, most swearwords have four letters; the phrase "four-letter 
words" generally** refers to swearwords.
** one of my conductors make jokes about this: "no, no!  You're playing 
loud, and `loud' is a four-letter word.  Think `heroic' or `strong' 
instead!  No four-letter words in this orchestra!"

Cheers,
- Graham