Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

[Carl Peterson]

In landscape orientation, the width of the iPad screen is about 7.75 inches (don't have one personally, but using the Pythagorean theorem on a 9.7" diagonal), which is about a quarter-inch wider than a line of a US-Letter size printing with 1/2 inch margins (7.5" line length, about 190 mm). So you would have the same approximate length of line as that, but would probably only set about 2 or three systems on a screen.

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:27 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> writes:

> Call me old-fashioned or antique, but despite their ubiquity, iPads
> and Kindles are just too small to read music from at any proper
> distance. There is a reason music scores are on large paper -
> readability. When iPads get to 235 x 310 mm screens (Klavierformat
> piano score paper size) then maybe it will be good. So I can't see
> where the convenience lies.

The size requirements decrease when the music stand does its own
page-flipping since then you have much less dormant screen estate.

However, currently the choice is between slow updating screens (not well
suited for frequent page flipping, let alone continuous scrolling) and
comparatively low-contrast devices that are not overly convenient for
concert lighting conditions.

I'm pretty sure that there are fundamental changes for music handling
possible.  But we're not there yet.

--
David Kastrup

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