Am 20.04.2017 um 17:59 schrieb David Kastrup:
Simon Albrecht <[email protected]> writes:
Hello everybody,
I’m wondering: what are the historic and functional differences
between vocalName and instrumentName?
vocalName/shortVocalName are fallbacks when neither instrumentName nor
shortInstrumentName are set. That's all seemingly.
Are there any? Does anybody have a clever policy when to use
vocalName? Does anybody use it at all?
Looks rather pointless to me, to be honest.
They were announced as a change in v2.2:
<http://lilypond.org/website/misc/announce-v2.2> with the description
‘Voice names, for vocal lines, have been added. They are similar to
instrument names. They can be set by defining |vocalName| and |vocNam|.’
– which doesn’t tell us how they’re _similar_, but different from
instrument names.
In vocal scores there is a convention of displaying the name of a singer
upon entry as a markup above the staff, sometimes in a special font
(sans serif, narrow). Now, if Instrument_name_engraver actually did such
a thing that would be a very good feature, and a sensible use for vocalName.
Best, Simon
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