Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:53:50PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Jonathan Kulp wrote: I don't know. This is definitely a strange example. The \mark command is meant to insert something over a barline, so maybe it'd be best to delete this example altogether and reword things a bit so that

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-20 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:53:50PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Agreed! It's very rare to insert textual indications between the notes within a measure (where, on the other hand, it's not uncommon to attach textual indications to a specific note, i.e. using a text

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-20 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:53:50PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Jonathan Kulp wrote: I don't know. This is definitely a strange example. The \mark command is meant to insert something over a barline, so maybe it'd be best to delete this example altogether and reword

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-19 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009 02:23:51 schrieb Lasse Rempe: Would you consider Menuetto / Trio as appropriate uses of the \mark command? If so, these could perhaps be used in the example. But even in these cases I would suggest that text in the \mark

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-19 Thread Lasse Rempe
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: No, \mark is mainly used for naming subparts A, B, C, ... These marks are centered over the bar line. Cheers, Reinhold Yes, I am aware of this (this is the only thing I use it for, in fact). However, the section in question discusses placing more expansive text

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:27:52PM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2009 19:32:45 schrieb Lasse Rempe: In 1.8.1, the following is used as an example for text marks: c4 \mark Allegro c c c Tempo indications should not

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-19 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:27:52PM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2009 19:32:45 schrieb Lasse Rempe: In 1.8.1, the following is used as an example for text marks: c4 \mark Allegro c c c Tempo

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-19 Thread Lasse Rempe
How about (Reprise), which is similar to the structural indications that the \mark command is meant for? Image attached. If this looks o.k. then I'll make the patch. I will reiterate my opinion that, in the attached snippet, a reader would interpret the text to correspond to the

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-19 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Lasse Rempe wrote: How about (Reprise), which is similar to the structural indications that the \mark command is meant for? Image attached. If this looks o.k. then I'll make the patch. I will reiterate my opinion that, in the attached snippet, a reader would interpret the text to

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jonathan Kulp wrote: I don't know. This is definitely a strange example. The \mark command is meant to insert something over a barline, so maybe it'd be best to delete this example altogether and reword things a bit so that the example with colla parte is the only one illustrating this

Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-18 Thread Lasse Rempe
I have a couple of suggestions regardin the (excellent) notation reference. In 1.8.1, the following is used as an example for text marks: c4 \mark Allegro c c c Here the mark is presumably placed after the first note to give the appearance that the text stands at the beginning of the bar. In

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-18 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Hi Lasse, Just a quick note--I'm not the one who wrote the Text section but I can explain a couple of things. The documentation policy requires that all examples in the main body of text be free of \override commands. Examples that have overrides are added as snippets. Since you have

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-18 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2009 19:32:45 schrieb Lasse Rempe: I have a couple of suggestions regardin the (excellent) notation reference. In 1.8.1, the following is used as an example for text marks: c4 \mark Allegro c c c Tempo indications should

Re: Suggestion for Notation Reference

2009-01-18 Thread Lasse Rempe
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Tempo indications should not use \mark anyway. They should use \tempo Allegro instead. (Mis-)Using \mark in our official documentation is a bug in my eyes. For this \mark example I would rather use something like: c4 \mark enters the stage c c c Cheers, Reinhold