Re: GDP NR 1.6 Staff notation ready for public review

[Trevor Daniels]

James E. Bailey wrote Monday, October 13, 2008 2:57 PM
> On 13.10.2008, at 12:33, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>
> > Please correct me if I am wrong, but it seems NR 1.6 Staff notation  has 
> > never been announced as ready for public review, although it  seems to be 
> > in good shape (thanks to Till) and has been reviewed by  members of the 
> > GDP team.  So I'll do it now.
> >
> > Could all of you will a few minutes to spare please look through  this 
> > section at
> >
> > http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Staff-notation.html#Staff-notation
> >
> > and post any comments, corrections or criticism to this list.  Thanks.
> >
> > Trevor
>
> 1) 1.6 Why doesn't the headword show something really specific to  staff 
> notation? ( ossia, cut-out score, tab/rhythm/drum staff?)

I agree it would be better if it did.  Do you have any suggestions
for a replacement?

> 2) 1.6.1.1 Why doesn't the GregorianTranscriptionStaff make a little  more 
> obvious that bar lines aren't shown? 4/4 time signature with  maybe, 6 
> quarter notes instead of just 4, so we see that there's no  bar line.

OK; done.

> 3) 1.6.2.1 Everything before \startStaff & \stopStaff seems like stuff 
> from 5.3 (modifying properties). And it seems like the whole section  is 
> there to introduce \stopStaff \startStaff

I agree.  I'll look at moving it there.  In general we
try to avoid explicit \overrides in Chapter 1, but I
might leave a few of the more useful ones there, perhaps
as snippets.

Trevor