Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

[James]

Hello,

On 12/10/2010 12:54, David Kastrup wrote:
> James<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On 12/10/2010 10:13, Alexander Kobel wrote:
> > > On 2010-10-09 17:46, Mark Polesky wrote:
> > > > CURRENT NAME PROPOSED NAME
> > > > ------------ -------------
> > > > top-system top-system
> > > > top-title top-markup
> > > > between-title markup-markup
> > > > after-title markup-system
> > > > between-system system-system
> > > > before-title system-markup
> > > > bottom-system system-bottom
> > > > between-scores-system score-system
> >
> > Why do we have
> >
> > 'top-system' but 'system-bottom' and not instead, 'bottom-system'?
>
> Because there is no system after the bottom?

?

I'll stop if I am really showing my ignorance (I am not a code 
developer), but from a user-point of view it would be much more 
'logical' if the naming was split *consistently* into

What you are changing (system, markup, title etc) and where you are 
changing.

I still think a *user* (not programmer or code developer) is going to 
really get frustrated when they don't know what a system is i.e... 'oh 
you mean the stuff with the notes in...we call that a 'score' where I 
come from. Also Top-Markup

As I see it my 'scores' are broken into

1. Titles (composer, arranger, instrument etc also includes tagline and 
page numbers)
2. Score (the stuff where the notes go)
3. Markup (the stuff that includes dynamics, textual markups, rehearsal 
marks, hairpins and so on that can hang above or below a score but stuff 
that is NOT in 'Titles' and is not the notes themselves).

Then you simply have 'above', 'below', 'between'. Somethings would be 
redundant like 'above-titles' or 'titles-above' (I don't care which 
would come first, as long as the signifiers are consistent)

To me 'markup-system' and 'system-system' are plain annoyingly 
obfuscating and I am obviously missing a trick because 'score-system' in 
my 'world' would be nonsensical. Between-score-system which is what it 
was would simply be 'score-between' or 'between-score'.

Thanks for your time.

James