David Kastrup wrote: > > > Disagree. And a Google search for both terms shows about a 100:1 > preference (and for the latter, about half of the result are from > Lilypond documentation) for the term "Taktzahlen" which is what I am > accustomed to hearing in orchestras and choirs. "Nummer" is more like a > "set" in musician jargon. > yes, but the term Taktzahl is mainly found in technical contexts!
in a musical context it often means the number of measures which e.g. build a verse (in german: die (An-) Zahl (der) Takte obviously you can say: "Die Nummer des Taktes wird durch eine Zahl über dem Taktstrich angezeigt" but not "Die Nummer des Taktes wird durch eine Nummer über dem Taktstrich angezeigt". but for me it's ok to go with it! thanks Eluze -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/imprecise-Taktlinie-in-german-doc-%28NR%29-tp28534850p28537609.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
