Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

[Carl Sorensen]

On 10/12/10 4:27 PM, "Wols Lists" <address@hidden> wrote:

>  On 12/10/10 22:05, Graham Percival wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>>>> I'll stop if I am really showing my ignorance (I am not a code
>>>> developer),
>>> I'm afraid you're showing your ignorance as a musician.
>>> System and score are not synonomous.  A system is a "line"
>>> of music which includes the all the staves which are
>>> grouped together.
>> Yes, but I see some weaknesses in our docs.
>> - Glossary: staff  should link to system
>> - Glossary: both staff and system  could benefit from images
>> - Learning: add some link(s) to Glossary: system.  Currently we
>>   have none!
>> address@hidden:~/src/lilypond/Documentation/learning$ git grep
>> "@rgloss{system}"
> 
> Add "stave" to this. Actually, I would have defined a stave as a line of
> music, and a system as a group of linked staves played simultaneously.
> But that all depends on how you understand the word "line" :-)

Isn't "staff" singular, and "staves" (or "staffs") plural?

Read describes a staff; multiple staves (his word) are grouped together into
a system.

Stone uses the terms staff, staves, and system, but without definition.

Thanks,

Carl