Eh, what's wrong with 10x13? It is extremely standard in orchestra parts. I am surprised the site list 11x14 as "second best". 11x14 is awful, because it does not fit in standard orchestra/band folders. 9x12 is essentially equally as common as 10x13, so I would say those are the two sizes we should be talking about.
I also don't get the objection to a 1-inch margin all around. That is also quite standard. On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, November 1, 2012 7:43 am, SN jef chippewa wrote: > > musicians are used to 9x12, that would be a more > > appropriate format. and has been a standard for > > very long. i don't think 10x13 is so large that > > the lines (systems) would start to get too long > > to read, but why not use a standard that exists > > already and is also used in other parts of the > > world? > > I wish 10x13 were more common now. The piles of piano sheet music that I > used > to have from the early 1900s were all done about 10x13 size (a little > different depending on the publisher, but mostly in that size). That size > isn't any kind of standard, though, except for beer bags. As far as I > know, it > doesn't even have a name. > > 9x12 is good for parts but I've lapsed into 8.5x11 because my music goes > out > as PDFs and I get questions on why it's too big for the page. Yeah, I know, > you just select 'shrink to fit' in the PDF print box, but a lot of folks > don't > seem to know about it. So I lay it out as 9x12 and then print PDF-to-PDF > with > shrink to 8.5x11 before it goes on my website. > > Unfortunately the 9x12 and 8.5x11 look too small when shrunk to A4. > > One day we'll talk about landscape scores. :) > > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
