Re: GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Shape notes is not only about making it easier to read, is it? It's closer to a notational system of its own. The affinities with solmization are strong, and even though that too had an educational function, it went way beyond that. Fingering: sure, it's educational too, but again, I wouldn't have

Re: GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 14.09.2007 (13:10), Graham Percival wrote: > Eyolf Østrem wrote: > >I don't like the sectioning of this one. Why is "Transpose" and > >"Instrument transpositions" split up? It doesn't make sense to me. > >Ottava brackets should also belong here somewhere. > Instrument transpositions affects how

Re: GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/14, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > o 1.7 Educational use (or "increasing readibility" ?) > They make the music easier to read. Again, I'm not wild about the > section name, as you can tell from the (?) in the name. > I'm quite happy with having a section that includes those

Re: GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Graham Percival
Eyolf Østrem wrote: On 14.09.2007 (08:23), Graham Percival wrote: http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Doc * 1 Notation Reference o 1.1 Pitches I don't like the sectioning of this one. Why is "Transpose" and "Instrument transpositions" split up? It doesn't make sense to

Re: GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 14.09.2007 (08:23), Graham Percival wrote: > http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Doc * 1 Notation Reference o 1.1 Pitches I don't like the sectioning of this one. Why is "Transpose" and "Instrument transpositions" split up? It doesn't make sense to me. Ottava brackets s

Re: GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Graham Percival
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2007/9/14, Juergen Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ancient notation _could_ be split genre-wise into two separate chunks "Gregorian Chant" and "Mensural Notation". However, for a _reference_ manual, I think it is ok as it currently is (e.g. having a single section on liga

Re: GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/14, Juergen Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ancient notation _could_ be split genre-wise into two separate chunks > "Gregorian Chant" and "Mensural Notation". However, for a _reference_ > manual, I think it is ok as it currently is (e.g. having a single section > on ligatures rather than sep

Re: GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Graham Percival
Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: Just one question: due to the alignement and their "timing effect", wouldn't it be judicious to move the "grace notes" to the "1.2.6 Special rhythmic concerns", at least through a link? Of course we'll have @seealso links everywhere in the manual. That's not a

Re: GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 14.09.2007 17:23, Graham Percival disait : http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Doc Sounds very promising. I like this progressive discovery. Just one question: due to the alignement and their "timing effect", wouldn't it be judicious to move the "grace notes" to the "1.2.6

Re: GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Juergen Reuter
Just for the record: Ancient notation _could_ be split genre-wise into two separate chunks "Gregorian Chant" and "Mensural Notation". However, for a _reference_ manual, I think it is ok as it currently is (e.g. having a single section on ligatures rather than separate ones per genre). For a

GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Graham Percival
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