Re: GDP: rearrangement

[Till Rettig]

Hello,

from what so far has been discussed I catched somewhat the need is to 
group the issues more into "single topic" sections of subsections.
For the discussion about the format of the html-docu: I would rather 
like to have whole subsections downloading than those tiny pages -- I 
also get lost on them and always have to go at least three steps up 
until I come again to the contents where I look for another promising 
section's name. So actually for me also a link to the toc would be 
sufficient, maybe also one to the index, to be on *every* page. I 
personally dislike the system that for going from a subsection to the 
next section demands climbing up one level -- I am probably too much 
used to reading real books where this kind of strange behaviour doesn't 
happen. But it might be a texinfo issue that we cannot incluence...
About rearranging: I would suggest breaking up chapters (with only one 
number, like 6, 7, and so on) into smaller chapters in some cases, that 
is being more specific on the lowest level. For instance I could imagine 
a chapter "Ancient music", and one on educational subjects. At least I 
don't see why Ancient is "instrument specific", so why not put it in 7 
from the current suggestion, right after educational and special noteheads.
I didn't check the situation now but from the discussion about "aligning 
cadenzas" -- I would look for cadenzas either in grace notes (being 
something "additional") or at rhythmic issues. From there we could have 
a link to a general chapter about aligning...
I am also somewhat unpleasant with the current "string" section in the 
instrument specific chapter: I would like to see here all those 
\bowdown, \bowup, \flageolet, \thumb and so on that are in 
"articulations" so far -- or at least a link to them. Well, that's 
already about contents, not only rearranging.
I like the "text"-section, that is a good idea. But going the same way 
for other stuff as well... Name of chapter 7 should maybe be changed, 
not everything is about "decoration", there are some really important 
things. Would it be something like "polishing", "finishing" or the like?

Sorry for writing so confused, I hope it is still understandable. It's 
mainly just some thoughts...

Greetings
Till

>    * 6 Basic musical notation
>          o 6.1 Pitches
>                + 6.1.1 Normal pitches
>                + 6.1.2 Accidentals
>                + 6.1.3 Cautionary accidentals
>                + 6.1.4 Micro tones
>                + 6.1.5 Note names in other languages
>                + 6.1.6 Relative octaves
>                + 6.1.7 Octave check
>                + 6.1.8 Rests
>                + 6.1.9 Skips
>          o 6.2 Affecting multiple pitches
>                + 6.2.1 Clef
>                + 6.2.2 Key signature
>                + 6.2.3 Transpose
>                + 6.2.4 Instrument transpositions
>                + 6.2.5 Ottava brackets
>          o 6.3 Rhythms
>                + 6.3.1 Durations
>                + 6.3.2 Augmentation dots
>                + 6.3.3 Tuplets
>                + 6.3.4 Scaling durations
>                + 6.3.5 Automatic note splitting
>                + 6.3.6 Aligning to cadenzas
>          o 6.4 Meter
>                + 6.4.1 Time signature
>                + 6.4.2 Partial measures
>                + 6.4.3 Unmetered music
>                + 6.4.4 Polymetric notation (alternating)
>                + 6.4.5 Polymetric notation (simultaneous)
>                + 6.4.6 Time administration
>                + 6.4.7 Proportional notation (introduction)
>                + 6.4.8 Automatic beams
>                + 6.4.9 Manual beams
>                + 6.4.10 Feathered beams
>          o 6.5 Bars
>                + 6.5.1 Bar check
>                + 6.5.2 Barnumber check
>                + 6.5.3 Multi measure rests
>                + 6.5.4 Bar lines
>                + 6.5.5 Bar numbers
>                + 6.5.6 Rehearsal marks
>          o 6.6 Polyphony
>                + 6.6.1 Chords
>                + 6.6.2 Stems
>                + 6.6.3 Basic polyphony
>                + 6.6.4 Explicitly instantiating voices
>                + 6.6.5 Collision resolution
>                + 6.6.6 Clusters
>                + 6.6.7 Automatic part combining
>                + 6.6.8 Writing music in parallel
>    * 7 Decorating musical notation
>          o 7.1 Connecting notes
>                + 7.1.1 Ties
>                + 7.1.2 Slurs
>                + 7.1.3 Phrasing slurs
>                + 7.1.4 Laissez vibrer ties
>                + 7.1.5 Grace notes
>                + 7.1.6 Analysis brackets
>          o 7.2 Expressive marks
>                + 7.2.1 Articulations
>                + 7.2.2 Dynamics (absolute)
>                + 7.2.3 Dynamics (crescendi)
>                + 7.2.4 Breath marks
>                + 7.2.5 Trills
>                + 7.2.6 Glissando
>                + 7.2.7 Arpeggio
>                + 7.2.8 Falls and doits
>          o 7.3 Staff notation
>                + 7.3.1 System start delimiters
>                + 7.3.2 Staff symbol
>                + 7.3.3 Hiding staves
>                + 7.3.4 Metronome marks
>                + 7.3.5 Instrument names
>                + 7.3.6 Quoting other voices
>                + 7.3.7 Formatting cue notes
>          o 7.4 Repeats
>                + 7.4.1 Repeat types
>                + 7.4.2 Repeat syntax
>                + 7.4.3 Repeats and MIDI
>                + 7.4.4 Manual repeat commands
>                + 7.4.5 Tremolo repeats
>                + 7.4.6 Tremolo subdivisions
>                + 7.4.7 Measure repeats
>          o 7.5 Educational use
>                + 7.5.1 Balloon help
>                + 7.5.2 Fingering instructions
>                + 7.5.3 Blank music sheet
>                + 7.5.4 Grid lines
>                + 7.5.5 Shape note heads
>                + 7.5.6 Easy Notation note heads
>          o 7.6 Special use
>                + 7.6.1 Special noteheads
>                + 7.6.2 Improvisation
>                + 7.6.3 Selecting notation font size
>                + 7.6.4 Hidden notes
>                + 7.6.5 Coloring objects
>                + 7.6.6 Parentheses
>    * 8 Instrument-specific notation
>          o 8.1 Piano music
>                + 8.1.1 Pedals
>                + 8.1.2 Automatic staff changes
>                + 8.1.3 Manual staff switches
>                + 8.1.4 Staff switch lines
>                + 8.1.5 Cross staff stems
>          o 8.2 Chord names
>                + 8.2.1 Introducing chord names
>                + 8.2.2 Chords mode
>                + 8.2.3 Printing chord names
>                + 8.2.4 Figured bass
>          o 8.3 Rhythmic music
>                + 8.3.1 Showing melody rhythms
>                + 8.3.2 Entering percussion
>                + 8.3.3 Percussion staves
>                + 8.3.4 Ghost notes
>          o 8.4 Guitar
>                + 8.4.1 String number indications
>                + 8.4.2 Tablatures basic
>                + 8.4.3 Non-guitar tablatures
>                + 8.4.4 Banjo tablatures
>                + 8.4.5 Fret diagrams
>                + 8.4.6 Right hand fingerings
>                + 8.4.7 Other guitar issues
>          o 8.5 Bagpipe
>                + 8.5.1 Bagpipe definitions
>                + 8.5.2 Bagpipe example
>          o 8.6 Bowed strings
>                + 8.6.1 Artificial harmonics
>          o 8.7 Ancient notation
>                + 8.7.1 Ancient note heads
>                + 8.7.2 Ancient accidentals
>                + 8.7.3 Ancient rests
>                + 8.7.4 Ancient clefs
>                + 8.7.5 Ancient flags
>                + 8.7.6 Ancient time signatures
>                + 8.7.7 Ancient articulations
>                + 8.7.8 Custodes
>                + 8.7.9 Divisiones
>                + 8.7.10 Ligatures
>                      # 8.7.10.1 White mensural ligatures
>                      # 8.7.10.2 Gregorian square neumes ligatures
>                + 8.7.11 Gregorian Chant contexts
>                + 8.7.12 Mensural contexts
>                + 8.7.13 Musica ficta accidentals
>    * 9 Text
>          o 9.1 Text in a score
>                + 9.1.1 Text scripts
>                + 9.1.2 Text and line spanners
>                + 9.1.3 Text spanners
>                + 9.1.4 Text marks
>          o 9.2 Text markup section
>                + 9.2.1 Text markup
>                + 9.2.2 Nested scores
>                + 9.2.3 Page wrapping text
>                + 9.2.4 Overview of text markup commands
>                + 9.2.5 Overview of text markup list commands
>                + 9.2.6 Font selection
>                + 9.2.7 New dynamic marks
>          o 9.3 Vocal music
>                + 9.3.1 Setting simple songs
>                + 9.3.2 Entering lyrics
>                + 9.3.3 Aligning lyrics to a melody
>                      # 9.3.3.1 Automatic syllable durations
>                      # 9.3.3.2 Another way of entering lyrics
>                      # 9.3.3.3 Assigning more than one syllable to a
>                      # single note
>                      # 9.3.3.4 More than one note on a single syllable
>                      # 9.3.3.5 Extenders and hyphens
>                + 9.3.4 Working with lyrics and identifiers
>                + 9.3.5 Flexibility in placement
>                      # 9.3.5.1 Lyrics to multiple notes of a melisma
>                      # 9.3.5.2 Divisi lyrics
>                      # 9.3.5.3 Switching the melody associated with a
>                      # lyrics line
>                      # 9.3.5.4 Lyrics independent of notes
>                + 9.3.6 Spacing lyrics
>                + 9.3.7 More about stanzas
>                      # 9.3.7.1 Adding stanza numbers
>                      # 9.3.7.2 Adding dynamics marks
>                      # 9.3.7.3 Adding singer names
>                      # 9.3.7.4 Printing stanzas at the end
>                      # 9.3.7.5 Printing stanzas at the end in multiple
>                      # columns
>                + 9.3.8 Ambitus
>                + 9.3.9 Other vocal issues
>          o 9.4 Titles and headers
>                + 9.4.1 Creating titles
>                + 9.4.2 Custom titles
>                + 9.4.3 Reference to page numbers
>                + 9.4.4 Table of contents
>    * 10 Input and output
>          o 10.1 Input files
>                + 10.1.1 File structure (introduction)
>                + 10.1.2 File structure
>                + 10.1.3 A single music expression
>                + 10.1.4 Multiple scores in a book
>                + 10.1.5 Extracting fragments of notation
>                + 10.1.6 Including LilyPond files
>                + 10.1.7 Different editions from one source
>                + 10.1.8 Text encoding
>          o 10.2 MIDI output
>                + 10.2.1 Creating MIDI files
>                + 10.2.2 MIDI block
>                + 10.2.3 MIDI instrument names
>          o 10.3 Displaying LilyPond notation
>          o 10.4 Skipping corrected music
>    * 11 Changing defaults
>
> -Rune
>
>
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