> From: "David H. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [snip] > ... I also can't understand how maintaining fixed rules of hyphenation in > choral music will "preserve a literate English population." > > After all, we are talking about people reading the music, aren't we? Aren't > they already literate?
"Literate," to me, would be on the publisher's side. What the population does with it is its own business, but the publisher has to have a professional standard and uniformity piece to piece. As regards disagreement between dictionaries, presumably the publisher will have pre-selected a preferred source. An engraver presumably also has a reliable dictionary for reference, subject to the editor's changes. More than literacy alone, it's also about consistency. -Richard H. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
