LM Orchestral template

[Simon Albrecht]

Hello,

I just came across the Orchestral template in LM A.6.I, and noticed two 
flaws, one minor and one serious:
– Double basses usually aren’t notated in a \clef "bass_8", but as 
transposing instruments (originating from the time when they were 
sharing a staff with the violoncelli). All the scores I have here, from 
Beethoven through Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Mahler to Hindemith, confirm 
this. I attach a version of the template where this is changed.
– The image rendition in the docs is extremely compressed, with 
overlapping stuff, staves touching one another &c. This is a really bad 
example and needs to be changed; how is this done? I don’t know the 
framework in lilypond-book-preamble.ly; certainly there will be someone 
who can quickly say how to allow the score more space.

Yours, Simon

LM-A.6.I.ly
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