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From: | Hans Aberg |
Subject: | Re: GDP: church rests |
Date: | Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:07:06 +0100 |
On 17 Nov 2007, at 03:52, Graham Percival wrote:
So what should the multi-measure rest symbol k |-----| be called?I couldn't really pick out an answer from this discussion, so we'll just keep the current "church rests". Since it mentions longa and breve in parentheses, I think it's fine.The glossary makes it clear that this is a lilypond-specific term, anyway.If you object to this, please see the current GDP docs and make a specific suggestion as to how we should change them.
I think you can drop the "Church rest" term, as nobody seems to know it outside LilyPond. Perhaps make a section "deprecated" for searching purposes with a reference.
Hindemith just calls it "rests longer than one measure", so multi- measure or multimeasure rests seems fine.
Hans Ã…berg
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