Simon Albrecht wrote Tuesday, September 22, 2015 7:35 PM > I just came across the Orchestral template in LM A.6.I, and noticed two > flaws, one minor and one serious: > – Double basses usually aren’t notated in a \clef "bass_8", but as > transposing instruments (originating from the time when they were > sharing a staff with the violoncelli). All the scores I have here, from > Beethoven through Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Mahler to Hindemith, confirm > this. I attach a version of the template where this is changed.
Thanks > – The image rendition in the docs is extremely compressed, with > overlapping stuff, staves touching one another &c. This is a really bad > example and needs to be changed; how is this done? I don’t know the > framework in lilypond-book-preamble.ly; certainly there will be someone > who can quickly say how to allow the score more space. I think for this example all that is needed is to reduce the global staff size, which is set (unusually) in this file to 17. I can't easily test this as it is a pain for me to build the docs, but James might be willing to do some experiments to choose the optimum staff size. Trevor _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
