RE: Scripts Manual Sect. 6.6.1 (Articulations)

[Anthony Youngman]

imho, people WOULD want to alter the defaults for things like segno.

By default they attach to notes. I normally see them attached to
barlines (I can't remember them anywhere else, actually).

So no, just moving the info about them to the repeats section (which
imho is where they belong) is a bad move unless you point out that by
default they don't attach to barlines, and include the stuff about how
to do that.

Oh - I don't think fermata should be moved - your using that as the
example of something tied to a barline is "interesting" to me, as I
don't ever remember seeing one like that...

Another tweak you might like to document (I don't know how to do it, or
I'd suggest the wording ...) - two things I see with articulation is
that in most music I see they go *above* the *system*. I know you can
specify '^' to put a mark above, but how do you make that the default?
And I can't remember whether I was told this ages ago, but isn't there
something you can set to force all articulations to print above the
system?

Cheers,
Wol

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To: Juergen Reuter
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Subject: Re: Scripts Manual Sect. 6.6.1 (Articulations)


On 2-Jun-06, at 9:40 AM, Juergen Reuter wrote:

> just a comment to Sect. 6.6.1 (Articulations):
>
> IMHO, the signum congruentiae, all fermatas, the segno sign and the 
> coda signs are no articulation signs.  Historically, they were put 
> together with the articulation signs into the same manual section, 
> because their implementation was based on the same piece of C++ code.

> Musicologically, I think they should go into a separate section, maybe

> called "Rehearsal directives" or similar.  Or maybe they should be 
> just merged into Sect. 8.2.3 (Rehearsal marks)?

I like the idea of merging them into 8.2.3, although make sure that you 
include
@findex \segno
@findex \coda
etc

in the revised 8.2.3.

> However, I am not sure what you would do about the "Commonly tweaked 
> properties" paragraph in 6.6.1 when splitting this section (Duplicate 
> it? Add a "See also"?).

I would simply omit it.  It's unlikely that people would need to alter 
the defaults for \segno and whatnot -- you want them to be over 
everything else.  If thye do want to tweak it, they can either consult 
chapter 9, or remember about the tips in 6.6.1.

You could add a "These commands are impleneted as Script objects, just 
like @ref{Articulations}" sentence in the new docs, though.

Cheers,
- Graham



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