Friends,
Through a combination of bad luck and negligence, I am in a situation where I have "lost" all my previous libraries and templates. The quotes designate that I can get them back without undue difficulty, by opening the documents which contained them, and extracting the relevant items, and resaving the teased out information. However, I have decided before doing this, to take some time to consider how I have these things ordered.
I've about reached the point of deciding that the most effective way to arrange libraries is to have a basic library containing a core group of materials that get used all the time, and then divide the balance into two classes, "general" and "specific". The "general" category is meant to describe expressions and articulations that are broadly applicable, like tempo designations, while the specific category is meant for expressions and articulations which apply to a specific instrument, composer or style. So "tempo" is a general category; "violin" is a specific category.
But it seems appropriate to ask, how the several of you denizens of this e-list have these things arranged. Also, as I write this, it occurs to me to ask whether there might be some value in setting up a "library" exchange; I'll trade you one "organ" library for one "violin" and one "kazoo" library...
Finally, it occurs to me that it might be useful to have a "meta" library, (though I have yet to determine if this is a suitable use for the scripting language) where I could define a set of articulation and expression libraries to import, so that if I am editing a score, and decide to change a part scored for oboe, to one scored for viola, I could, by loading the "viola group", load two text expression libraries, three shape expression libraries, an articulation shape library, with a single command.
ns
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