Re: Score parts: instrument and duration

[Hans Aberg]

On 15 Aug 2005, at 11:00, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> > > Some apparent limitations of LilyPond headers:
> > > - My score parts place the instrument name up left; LilyPond  
> > > does  that under the title.
> > > - On the subsequent pages, my score parts put the instrument name  
> > > in  the same type as on the front page; LilyPond uses a plain  
> > > (roman)  type. One can override this by using \markup, but  
> > > LilyPond insist  adding a \bold on the front page, in general not  
> > > a big problem, but  one would think that \roman should override it.
> > not a bug: \roman refers to family, while \bold refers to weight.
>
> I've just added a new markup command \normal-text which brings you
> back to the default text font. It will appear in the next 2.6.x and
> 2.7.x releases.

Fine. I think it should be there, for completeness.

> > > - I have a score (Ernest Bloch, "Suite Modale for Flute and  
> > > Piano")  which has an additional header field "duration". It is  
> > > placed to the  left, over the instrument name.
> > Good idea. Any takers for a patch?  It's just adding it to titling- 
> > init.ly and the documentation.
>
> The question is what the field should be called. "Duration" is just
> one of many possible uses for an extra field at this position.

I only noticed that it has the field; I do not know how common it is;  
whther it comes from the author or the typesetter. The field says
  Duration: 12 minutes
in normal size, plain, roman font.

> Also, I'm not sure about exactly what position you want. Does
> "over the instrument name" refer to the default instrument name
> position given by LilyPond or the position up left where you want
> it? Can you possibly reuse the "poet" field?

The whole layout, in pseudo-code, is
                                 \size 1\italic "To Elaine Shaffer"
                                 \size 4\bold "Suite Modale"
\size 0\normal "Duration ..."    \size 2\bold "For Flute and Piano"
\size 3\bold  
"FLUTE"                                                   \size 3 
\bold "ERNEST BLOCH"
                                                                        
\size 3\bold "(1956)"
                                 \size 3\bold "I"
Score Part...

\size 0 
\normal&bold                                                    \size  
0\normal&bold
  "Copyright ..."                  \size 0 
\normal                      "Broude Brothers..."
  "International rights secured"         "B.B.  
2010"                   "New York"
  "All rights  
reserved"                                                "Printed in  
U.S.A"

I am not saying that this is the right way to do it. I just notice  
how it is. It interesting to note how many font sizes are in use.

  Hans Aberg