Re: Adds documentation for optional octavation clef syntax (issue 6830043)

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Marc Hohl <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Am 08.11.2012 09:22, schrieb address@hidden:
>>> I suppose that a parenthesized clef octavation doesn't mean that the
>>> octavation is optional (that is, it doesn't mean "you may choose to play
>>> it in this octave or another, whatever pleases you most").  I suppose
>>> that a parenthesized clef octavation means that it's just a reminder, or
>>> that the octavation number is editorial.
>>
>> I used them in my pieces before in exactly the way you describe above.
>> For a flute, I used \clef "G^(8)" to indicate that the player may play it
>> one
>> octave above (preferred in combination with concert flute) or as written
>> (when played with recorder).
>
> Interesting.  Of course the notation you describe makes sense, but i
> would definitely avoid it because it seems to ambiguous to me.
> By the way, is it just me or are brackets (as opposed to parentheses)
> commonly used for indicating editorial elements?  If so, i think that
> a bracketed octavation would mean a "reminder".  That would make it
> easy to confuse the two meanings.
>
> Anyway, i recommend rewording the description to make it
> interpretation-independent, i.e. something like "to put brackets or
> parentheses around octavation, just use brackets/parentheses in the
> code" without explaining what that could mean musically.

I don't see that we can get around defining what it should mean
musically when we allow for absolute pitch entry and generate Midi.

-- 
David Kastrup