Re: Docs - unfretted strings

2008-09-30 Thread Trevor Daniels
Andrew, you wrote Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:43 AM On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Hawryluk wrote Monday, September 29, 2008 1:44 AM I thought of this while writing the keyboards part but didn't say anything because I didn't want to upse

Re: Docs - unfretted strings

2008-09-30 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:10:43 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So Bowed strings should contain links to or examples > of at least > > artificial harmonics, Ref to NR 1.1.4 > bowing indications, NR 1.3.1 > snap pizzicato, NR B.6 -- I admit this one is a bit less obvio

Re: Docs - unfretted strings

2008-09-29 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Hawryluk wrote Monday, September 29, 2008 1:44 AM >> >> I thought of this while writing the keyboards part but didn't say >> anything because I didn't want to upset the established dichotomy of >> fretted vs. unfr

Re: Docs - unfretted strings

2008-09-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/9/29 John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Speaking of LSR, makelsr.py seems to be broken, > it looks like it mangles backslashes in .texidoc files, What a coincidence, I've just sent a note on this. (Subject: backslashes) -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) http://www.paconet.org _

Re: Docs - unfretted strings

2008-09-29 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/29 08:28 +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > I came to the same conclusion. It is also far easier > to do this - no new files are needed, as the common > notation for keyboards is pretty well right for the > harp, and Harp slots in after Piano and Accordion. > > Perhaps we should change the

Re: Docs - unfretted strings

2008-09-29 Thread Trevor Daniels
Andrew Hawryluk wrote Monday, September 29, 2008 1:44 AM On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By the way, guitar/harp/piano/percussions are a same group in orchestras, whereas strings are another group. Besides, harp notation is (on a semantic/symboli

Re: Docs - unfretted strings

2008-09-28 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, guitar/harp/piano/percussions are a same group in > orchestras, whereas strings are another group. Besides, harp notation > is (on a semantic/symbolic level) much closer to keyboards or guitar > stuff than

Re: Docs - unfretted strings

2008-09-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/28 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, let's wait to hear from John and Valentin on this point. Well, at first I was pleased with the fretted/unfretted distinction, but you do have some good points. As far as I can remember, when we created the unfretted section it was mainly to add

Re: Docs - unfretted strings

2008-09-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:48 AM On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:35:36 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just got round to looking at Unfretted strings in the Notation Reference, and I'm not very happy with this subdivision. 1. It makes a nice contrast wit

Re: Docs - unfretted strings

2008-09-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:35:36 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got round to looking at Unfretted strings in the Notation > Reference, and I'm not very happy with this subdivision. 1. It makes a nice contrast with "fretted strings". 2. There's almost no content in that s

Docs - unfretted strings

2008-09-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
I just got round to looking at Unfretted strings in the Notation Reference, and I'm not very happy with this subdivision. At present it includes bowed strings and plucked strings, which gives rise to at least two problems. First, having two sub-divisions pushes the real content down a level, wh