Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

[Andrew Bernard]

Again, maybe I am out of date but I need to see a full page of music, 
and even a full two page spread to see what's coming up and what's gone 
past when playing, not two or three systems, so that I have a wide 
musical context. And US Letter is still narrow.

But then again, to show I am not just a grump, since I am a 
harpsichordist, I have to admit that many 17-18c scores were printed 
with small plates, say 5x7 inches, and I understand this was due to high 
costs of larger plates and paper and so on. So in fact there were lots 
of iPad mini sized scores around in the past!

Andrew


On 25/04/13 1:38 AM, Carl Peterson wrote:
> In landscape orientation, the width of the iPad screen is about 7.75 
> inches (don't have one personally, but using the Pythagorean theorem 
> on a 9.7" diagonal), which is about a quarter-inch wider than a line 
> of a US-Letter size printing with 1/2 inch margins (7.5" line length, 
> about 190 mm). So you would have the same approximate length of line 
> as that, but would probably only set about 2 or three systems on a screen.