the problem you are talking about has nothing to do with page format. if the music is too small a percentage it will be too small in any format to read. ideally you would notate at the proper size for the final format of the printed parts. any orchestra musician who can't read the part because of bad eyesight will have the music librarian blow it up anyways no matter the page format; the music should not be made larger because of this.
blowing up to a larger format also brings with it a reduction in print clarity. admittedly negligible with laser printing... musicians are used to 9x12, that would be a more appropriate format. and has been a standard for very long. i don't think 10x13 is so large that the lines (systems) would start to get too long to read, but why not use a standard that exists already and is also used in other parts of the world? >I'd like to put in a word in favor of 10x13 >paper. It is the standard size that many >orchestra librarians use and prefer. Letter-size >looks small on the music stand and is often hard >to read. Anything bigger than 10x13 often won't >fit under a stand light. > >But I disagree (if I read it correctly) with >their specific detail. IMO, the BEST thing is >to print parts on letter-size paper, then blow >up to 10x13. That produces parts that are very >easy to read. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
