On 9/15/16 7:36 AM, "Chris Yate" <address@hidden> wrote:
>Carl, the key is the last bit of Gould's text as quoted by Brian above:
>"When a dot is forced to be two or more stave-spaces from the chord, its
>function becomes less relevant. In such cases, use only as many dots as
>cover the number of stave-spaces taken up by the chord."
>In my 30-odd years experience of reading music I don't think I've ever
>seen augmentation dots extending even a full space away from a chord
>(apart from moving a half-step above or below a line-note).
Please see attached scan from Gould.
Thanks,
Carl
Thanks -- but that example is about balancing the dots around a chord, which I believe we're not disagreed about. (This scanned example is related her statement about not placing the dots in one direction).
And yet:
\relative c' { <a' b c d e>2. }
does not produce the output she suggests for this chord. I need chord-dots-limit = 4 for that.