On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 at 15:22 Carl Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 9/15/16 7:36 AM, "Chris Yate" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Carl, the key is the last bit of Gould's text as quoted by Brian above: > >"When a dot is forced to be two or more stave-spaces from the chord, its > >function becomes less relevant. In such cases, use only as many dots as > >cover the number of stave-spaces taken up by the chord." > >In my 30-odd years experience of reading music I don't think I've ever > >seen augmentation dots extending even a full space away from a chord > >(apart from moving a half-step above or below a line-note). > > Please see attached scan from Gould. > > Thanks, > > Carl Thanks -- but that example is about balancing the dots around a chord, which I believe we're not disagreed about. (This scanned example is related her statement about not placing the dots in one direction). And yet: \relative c' { <a' b c d e>2. } does not produce the output she suggests for this chord. I need chord-dots-limit = 4 for that.
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