Re: GDP: first draft of NR 1.5 Simultaneous

[Graham Percival]

I'll let Francisco deal with most of these, but...


On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:01:20 +0200
Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:

> - What's really the purpose of the predefined voice styles? I can 
> understand that they are
>   useful for some illustrations in the manual, and probably were 
> introduced for that reason, but
>   I don't really see that these arbitrarily defined styles have much 
> interest for other users, except
>   possibly as examples of how such styles can be defined by yourself.
>   At least, it should be clarified that they are arbitrarily defined. 
> Since there are four predefined
>   styles, shouldn't the example show all four of them?

We thought that it would be pretty clear how to use \voiceThree
and Four, but you're right that there isn't much point describing
them at all.  I still think we should keep that material in the
NR, but since we're just including it for the sake of
completeness, we should actually be complete in it.

Francisco, could you add Three and Four to that example?

> - Is it because of a limitation in the abilities of the
> \parallelMusic function that the example in
>   "Writing music in parallel" doesn't include all the notes that J.S. 
> Bach wrote in these measures?
>   (Perhaps it's just to avoid making the example looking too
> complicated).

I expect that's the case -- especially when you consider the pdf
output; we don't want material going off the right-hand edge of
the page.

Cheers,
- Graham