On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Jack Campin wrote: > + in every printed score I own, the tempo text, expression text, and > + guitar chords are distinguishable from one another by their typeface > + alone. > > But they aren't *identifiable* by their typeface alone - no two publishers > use the same set of conventions.
That doesn't matter. The point is, distinguishing between different kinds of text *in some way* is beneficial to the performer. Performers who are used to reading music will take this convention for granted. > In any case, is merely being able to implicitly specify a different > typeface for tempo indications a feature worth the bother of > implementing? This is not a matter of "merely" changing typeface. I was adding just one example to many other good points. There are other benefits to specifying a context for text information. Sorting, filtering, and extracting information based on context would be useful. I regularly do this kind of thing, for instance to extract just the titles and words from a large collection of tunes. This would not be possible if lyrics were written "_like" "_this". John To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
