From: "Jack Campin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 1:38 AM Subject: [abcusers] linebreaks and paper sizes > >> BarFly makes ignoring linebreaks an option (except for multi-voice > >> music where it isn't practical); what I do sometimes is first let > >> the program have a go at doing the layout, then optimize the result > >> by putting explicit linebreaks in better places myself. BarFly's > >> spacing algorithm is not very sophisticated (monospace type printed > >> on elastic), but the same approach would be handy for any program. > > As I see music engraving, you should care about linebreak/pagebreak > > just before you start printing. You never know the paper size > > beforehand do you? > > I do. It's always A4, either portrait or landscape.
Which implies in fact two sizes; if it will fit on landscape it won't fit an portrait (unless you use a square portion of it)... Much of my users seem to like to have marching-band sized paper (something like 15 x 10cm) landscape. > For the tunes on my CD-ROMs, the GIF scores (generated by BarFly) > are intended for practical use by folk instrumentalists who operate > the way I see them working in Scotland: everybody (beginners to pro > ceilidh bands) uses A4 folders with clear plastic pouches. The music > in them is usually portrait layout, be it printed, xeroxed or hand- > written. So I design for that use; my users will print the tunes > themselves as needed and arrange them in whatever categories they want. > (Epicycle: I try not to use the full height of A4, so American users > can fit my stuff onto their "letter" size without rescaling; I presume > they use the plastic pouches too). > > For the flute CD-ROM, I did every tune in both portrait and landscape; > that stuff is significantly more complex than the "Embro, Embro" or > Aird tunes, and often landscape layout works better. Harder to use on > a stand, but I was expecting people to use the scores for memorization > rather than in performance. In many cases (and increasingly as LCD > screens become more prevalent) people will simply learn the tunes off > the computer screen (maybe aided by sound files) and never print them. > > There are so many advantages to this format that hopefully I've just > killed the printed-and-bound tune anthology. > > But what I really want is singing digital paper. or even hornpiping papers (all of them slightly out of tune...) Wouldn't that be great ;-) Arent To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
