On 9 May 2004 at 4:14, Darcy James Argue wrote:

> On 09 May 2004, at 04:09 AM, d. collins wrote:
> 
> > Thanks again for all the valuable tips and advice, especially to
> > Hal, who sent me a few sample files.
> >
> > Here's what I ended up doing for now, with the ossia tool:
> >
> > http://www.philomela.net/ex/range_finders.gif
> >
> > It might be considered a bit ambiguous, since the notes of the range
> > are to be read in the clef that follow them, and not in that of the
> > incipit.
> 
> It confused the hell out of me, even after you explained it.  However,
> I'm not familiar with this style, so maybe it wouldn't be confusing to
> someone well versed in it.

It's very, very confusing. The usual practice is to put the range 
finder after the real clef, but before the time signature:

http://www.bway.net/~dfenton/RangeFinder.gif

> Keeping that in mind, I vote for the third clef (before the range
> finders), definitely.

Whatever you do, convention or not, should be unambiguous. Putting 
the ranged finders next to the incipit and in the clef that follows 
is inherently confusing.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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