Hi Till Might the tempo indication and metronome marks be better placed in the Rhythm section? If you think so let me know, as I'm working on Rhythms right now.
Trevor D > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+t.daniels=treda.co.u > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Till Rettig > Sent: 24 February 2008 13:19 > To: lilypond-user Mailinglist > Subject: GDP: staff section > > > Hi GDP-helpers! > > I started now finally with the staff section of NR1. > As with the repeat section, I would also suggest > some new grouping. > The order of the section is now the following: > > # 1.6 Staff notation > * 1.6.1 Displaying staves > o 1.6.1.1 System start delimiters > o 1.6.1.2 Staff symbol > o 1.6.1.3 Hiding staves > * 1.6.2 Writing parts > o 1.6.2.1 Metronome marks > o 1.6.2.2 Instrument names > o 1.6.2.3 Quoting other voices > o 1.6.2.4 Formatting cue notes > > I was first wondering why "writing parts" is here > at all, but I guess > this should not be discussed too broad now, > because it had been > discuessed when we decided about the GDP chapter > order. I was just > thinking that "combining parts" and "writing > parts" would be together > something like a "orchestral" chapter -- even > though you use it also in > chamber music and the like. So I hope this > grouping as it now is is > intuitive enough to a new user that he figures > out where to look for. > > The 1.6.1 section is really unevenly distributed > over the three > subsubsections, I was thinking of introducing a > new subsection: > modifying staves which would contain most of > 6.1.1 and 6.1.2 > So the new section model could be: > > 1.6 Staff notation > 1.6.1 Displaying/writing/setting staves > 1.6.1.1 Initiating a new staff (short > basics, also one sentence > about \new and \context, here should also go the > example about starting > stopping additional staves) > 1.6.1.2 Grouping staves (about system > start delimiters > (maybe: 1.6.1.3: Deeper nesting of staff groups) > 1.6.2 Modifying staves > 1.6.2.1 Staff symbol, (and how to modify > the different parameters) > 1.6.2.2 Ossia staves > 1.6.2.3 Hiding staves > 1.6.3 Writing parts > ... > > I have concentrated for now on this part leaving > the parts section > alone, I want to come back to it only when the > first part is in better > condition. > There are still some general questions for the > parts section for which I > would like to hear some feedback: > > -Why is the metronome mark described here? It > applies as well to a whole > score (where it would be agreedly on the top > stave...), and I think it > should go together with a general description on > how to write tempo > indications (and also with a workaround to align > the indication with the > key or the meter, not with the first note of the > first bar). Where could > this section go? > It is currently discussed in text marks, 1.8.1.4, > but meant to write > rehearsal marks, not tempo indications. > > -I think it is actually almost a bug in lilypond > that there is no easy > way to center the beginning of a tempo > indictation on the key symbol, so > I think it is important to provide at least an > workaround clearly marked > as such for this purpose. > > -We see the parts section as the sections that > explains everything > general about single parts -- so in this sense > the metronome mark > belongs here and also the tempo indication. But > to me (and my German > ears) the section caption points at preparing > parts for each instrument > of a bigger score. So I think we should change > this section's caption. > Ideas? > > -To me there is a distinction between the two > first subsubsections > (metronome marks and instrument names) and the > two last (quoting voices > and cue notes): the first two I would see more > generally apllying to > staves for each instrument/voice, the two last > are what I understand by > the word "part", mainly concerned about the case > where one has only > one's own part and needs to get some context into > it. So I could even > imagine still a new subsection: > > 1.6.3 Additions to specific staves > 1.6.3.1 tempo indication > 1.6.3.2 metronome mark > 1.6.3.3 instrument name > 1.6.4 Adding context to a single part > 1.6.4.1 quoting > 1.6.4.2 cue notes > > But this is only a first thought. > > Greetings > Till > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
