On 12/10/10 14:02, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi James, > >> I still think a *user* (not programmer or code developer) is going to really >> get frustrated when they don't know what a system is i.e... 'oh you mean the >> stuff with the notes in...we call that a 'score' where I come from. > The entire music engraving world -- not just Lilypond, but Finale/Sib/etc. > and the traditional hand-engravers -- call a single line of music spanning > the width of a single page a "system", and the entire collection of systems a > "score". > > If Lilypond users are confused because they don't have an understanding of > that basic and universal terminology, they should read (1) some engraving > books, and (2) the Lilypond introductory documentation. 3) Take a basic music theory course.
For a musician to get that wrong is as seriously incompetent as for a computer guy to refer to a hard disk as ram (I know the man-in-the-street tends to call them both "memory"). Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
