Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

[Carl Sorensen]

On 10/12/10 4:51 PM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:45:33AM +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote:
>> On 2010-10-13 00:27, Wols Lists wrote:
>>> 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" :-)
>> 
>> "Stave" or "staff"?!  Are these identical?  I thought "stave" is
>> just a wrong singular form of "staves", which itself is the correct
>> plural of "staff"?
> 
> In GDP, we standardized on either "staffs" or "staves", but I
> forget which one we picked, and it didn't make it into the
> "General writing" section of the CG.

it is "staff" and "staves", according to the GDP rules:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-09/msg00240.html

Of course, Neil considered that a US bias (with a smiley):

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-09/msg00245.html



Thanks,

Carl