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From: | Simon Albrecht |
Subject: | Re: vocalName vs. instrumentName |
Date: | Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:20:23 +0200 |
Am 20.04.2017 um 17:59 schrieb David Kastrup:
Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:Hello everybody, I’m wondering: what are the historic and functional differences between vocalName and instrumentName?vocalName/shortVocalName are fallbacks when neither instrumentName nor shortInstrumentName are set. That's all seemingly.Are there any? Does anybody have a clever policy when to use vocalName? Does anybody use it at all?Looks rather pointless to me, to be honest.
They were announced as a change in v2.2: <http://lilypond.org/website/misc/announce-v2.2> with the description ‘Voice names, for vocal lines, have been added. They are similar to instrument names. They can be set by defining |vocalName| and |vocNam|.’ – which doesn’t tell us how they’re _similar_, but different from instrument names. In vocal scores there is a convention of displaying the name of a singer upon entry as a markup above the staff, sometimes in a special font (sans serif, narrow). Now, if Instrument_name_engraver actually did such a thing that would be a very good feature, and a sensible use for vocalName.
Best, Simon
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