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

[janek . lilypond]

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Marc Hohl <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 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.

Well, i think that the explanation which Marc had put there ("The
pitches are displayed as if the numeric argument were given without
parentheses/brackets.") should suffice.
So, LGTM.
Janek


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