Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

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 On 12/10/10 14:02, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>> 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.
> The entire music engraving world -- not just Lilypond, but Finale/Sib/etc. 
> and the traditional hand-engravers -- call a single line of music spanning 
> the width of a single page a "system", and the entire collection of systems a 
> "score".
>
> If Lilypond users are confused because they don't have an understanding of 
> that basic and universal terminology, they should read (1) some engraving 
> books, and (2) the Lilypond introductory documentation.
3) Take a basic music theory course.

For a musician to get that wrong is as seriously incompetent as for a
computer guy to refer to a hard disk as ram (I know the
man-in-the-street tends to call them both "memory").

Cheers,
Wol