Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 "Specialist Notation"

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:54:19 +0200
"Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2008/4/3, Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> 
> >  As you all know, I'm not at all fond of duplication in the docs,
> >  but I'm having difficulty arguing that "String music" would be
> >  easier to understand if we omitted discussion of bowings.  And
> >  artificial harmonics, for that matter -- those are covered in
> >  Pitches.
> 
> I wasn't proposing to duplicate any information, but just to use @refs
> everywhere we can to make finding the needed information easier.
> 
> Trevor: my point was just to link to NR 1.3.2.3:
> "Breathing marks can be obtained using the syntax described in
> "Breathing marks".
> 
> Admittedly, this is silly, but still, we're talking to
> wind-instrument-players -- we have to take that into account :)

And bowing, for string players?

"Bowing may be added to scores like other articulations; for more
information, see @ref{articulations and ornamentations}.  The
exact names of bowings are described in @ref{List of articulations}."
?

Once a reader figures out the above, he'll be wondering why we 
didn't they just write
c2\upbow
c2\downbow


Cheers,
- Graham