Bernard Hill writes:
| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
| >
| >%%staves [Fl1 Fl2] ... [V1 V2 Va Vc] [S A T B] [{HR HL} {OR OL OP}]
|
| String parts in an orchestral work are usually bracketed together (5
| staves) and the top two then braced (1st/2nd violins) outside the
| bracket.
|
| [{Vln1 Vln2} Vla Vc DB]
Yes, and I've also seen this in band scores, where you often have
two of a lot of instruments:
[{Fl1 Fl2} {Cl1 Cl2} {Tr1 Tr2} ...]
The outer brackets often surround the entire band, so you can have
two or three systems on a page and they are visually separate.
I wonder if there are cases of brackets within braces?
Of course, mathematicians regularly use parens, brackets and braces
interchangeably, simply to make it easier to see the groupings. I've
often wished that programming languages allowed this. But most people
other than mathematicians seem to want all the grouping chars to mean
something different.
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