Most of my Kalmus parts are (approximately) 10x13 with (approximately) 1 inch margins all around. Kalmus is an American company, but they mostly just reprint European editions.
Computers take the "approximately" out of the equations, but 10x13 with 1 inch margins is very much within the Kalmus norm. To be clear, what I mean by a top and bottom margin of 1" is that the top staff line on the page aligns with the top margin and the bottom staff line with the bottom. Thus page numbers and indeed notes and indications above the top staff or below the bottom staff appear "outside the margins." There is less ambiguity with left and right margins. On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:59 AM, SN jef chippewa < [email protected]> wrote: > > >Eh, what's wrong with 10x13? It is extremely standard in orchestra parts. > > ... in the states perhaps. > > >I am surprised the site list 11x14 as "second best". 11x14 is awful... > > it (or B4) can be very useful for performance scores (say 3-5 or so > players) but not for individual parts. > > >I also don't get the objection to a 1-inch margin all around. That > >is also quite standard. > > i wonder how much of this is "standard" because of the typical > default settings in electronic documents in the states. a quick > browse through editions i have shows a 2 cm (or slightly larger, even > sometimes less) margin in bound scores. except in a hal leonard i > have, and there the 1" on the left of the left page is to the left > barline and does not include brackets (so the real margin is less > than 1"). > > on the site the thing i specifically objected to was the 1.5" > mandatory margin for scores to be bound. even the 1" (2.54 cm) > margin is on the upper end of the spectrum of what is actually found > in printed editions. a 2 cm margin is more than sufficient. that > extra cm on the page width can be crucial in tough layouts. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
