Re: GDP: preferred terms

[Hans Aberg]

On 15 Nov 2007, at 00:57, Graham Percival wrote:

> I've started a list of preferred terms in policy.txt.  These are words
> where people have asked me which spelling/term we prefer, and I don't
> want to give different answers to different people.
>
> I think this is a bit late; I'm certain that I've flip-flopped on "bar
> lines", but at least this time (once they're added to this list) I  
> won't
> change my mind again.

> There's a few more terms to add to this list:
> - "bar" vs. "measure".  Whenever possible, we use the same term as the
> internal lilypond syntax uses... but I've seen both bars and  
> measures in
> those docs.  Should we just leave this up to individual doc  
> writers, or
> pick one word?

"Harvard Concise" suggests using "bar line", i.e., the line  
delimiting the measure, and measure, the stuff usually delimited by  
the bar lines. I think the use of "bar" meaning "measure" is informal.

> - "barline" vs. "bar line".  I believe that the lilypond syntax is
> "barline", but that could just be because we can't have spaces in
> property names.

The dictionary above and Merriam "Webster's Third New International  
Dictionary" uses "bar line", and Hindemith "bar-line" (1946). As for  
LilyPond syntax, probably best to give words forms that are easy to  
remember exactly when typing; so "barline" would be fine to me.

  Hans Åberg