On Feb 19, 2006, at 2:17 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 12:25 PM -0500 2/19/06, Christopher Smith wrote:
End quote. Now for interpretation.
8.5 mm (most readable) is Finale's 100% staff size.
The moral: Finale makes it much too easy to reduce size. Just
because you CAN do it doesn't mean you SHOULD do it!
I don't know how point size relates to mm or reductions, but in
working with Mosaic I have settled on 20 pt for parts, 18 or sometimes
16 pt for choral scores, and 12 pt for cramming staves onto a score
page. One of the composers for our community band uses
Finale-out-of-the-box, and his parts are uniformly too small for
comfortable reading.
24 pts is 100%
20 pts (or .7 cm) is 83%, which is already smaller than Finale's
default of 85%, so your pal must have changed something else, like page
size reduction, to get it smaller.
18 and 16 points are 75% and 66% respectively, while 12 (predictably
enough, since 24 is full size) is 50%.
Choral scores, since they are typically held inches from one's face,
can take smaller reductions than string parts, which are feet away from
the players, as I am sure you know.
Christopher
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