On 10/31/10 3:00 PM, "Keith E OHara"<address@hidden> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:04:06 -0700,<address@hidden> wrote:
Mark Polesky wrote Friday, October 29, 2010 11:27 PM
I've thought about it, and I think I slightly favor the term
"loose line" over "non-staff line"
[...]
Also loose-staff-spacing sounds
too much like something that gives staves a loose spacing
(rather than a tight spacing) to anyone coming to this for the
first time.
Thanks for doing this, Mark.
It seems you want a one-word _noun_, to refer to either a line of lyrics and a
line of dynamics, in the limited context of its placement relative to the
neighboring staffs, and similar lines of lyrics/dynamics.
Simply 'line' ?
I think 'line' could easily be confused with a staff line. I think perhaps
'nonstaff' would be better. So we could have
nonstaff-staff-spacing
Remember the user cannot see why they are called "loose" -- maybe indirectly
in the way these lines are placed in a second step after the staff lines, but
the docs about that second step do not use the word 'loose'.
But they might, once the terminology is finalized.
The visible difference from regular staffs is that lyrics/dynamics have an
affinity. They are attached, in their spacing behavior, to one a parent
staff, or centered between two parent staffs, and negotiate with their
siblings for space.
This is a nice statement! Thanks!