On 10/12/10 4:27 PM, "Wols Lists" <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
> On 12/10/10 22:05, Graham Percival wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>>>> I'll stop if I am really showing my ignorance (I am not a code
>>>> developer),
>>> I'm afraid you're showing your ignorance as a musician.
>>> System and score are not synonomous. A system is a "line"
>>> of music which includes the all the staves which are
>>> grouped together.
>> Yes, but I see some weaknesses in our docs.
>> - Glossary: staff should link to system
>> - Glossary: both staff and system could benefit from images
>> - Learning: add some link(s) to Glossary: system. Currently we
>> have none!
>> gperc...@futoi:~/src/lilypond/Documentation/learning$ git grep
>> "@rgloss{system}"
>
> Add "stave" to this. Actually, I would have defined a stave as a line of
> music, and a system as a group of linked staves played simultaneously.
> But that all depends on how you understand the word "line" :-)
Isn't "staff" singular, and "staves" (or "staffs") plural?
Read describes a staff; multiple staves (his word) are grouped together into
a system.
Stone uses the terms staff, staves, and system, but without definition.
Thanks,
Carl
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