At 17:38 01/02/2016 +0000, Graham King wrote:
>... for the first time ever, needed to use Da Capo al Fine. [...]
>If it passes expert inspection, it might make a useful snippet. If
>not, I'd like to know how it should be improved. (In particular, I'm
>not sure about the typographical standards for "fine")
"Fine" always has an initial capital, doesn't it?
Elaine Gould says (p. 240):
>_Da Capo_, _Dal Segno_, and _Fine_ instructions are written in a
>conspicuous font, to differentiate them from surrounding text: in a
>vocal score or orchestral part this might be italic, otherwise bold.
>Place them above the top stave of a vocal score; below the stave of
>a single-line part; below the bottom stave of a score or braced part.
>
>A thin double barline, rather than a final double barline, marks the
>written end of the music when this is not the end of the piece.
>
>Only the _Fine_ bar, the actual end of the piece, takes a final
>double barline. This is regardless of whether the _Fine_ is a whole
>or an incomplete bar.
Her example stacks "_D.C._" above "_al Fine_" - presumably to reduce
the horizontal extent of the text.
Brian Barker