On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 8:04 AM David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > On Fri 09 Sep 2022 at 10:38:24 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 07/09/2022 à 01:00, Knute Snortum a écrit : > > > In order to avoid the AB problem, > > > > What do you call by "AB problem"? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem > > > > what I'm trying to do is move some > > > fingering down in the system, but the problem I run into is I get too > > > much space between staves. > > A tyro would have asked how to close up the staves > and cause a timewasting discussion, before eventually > revealing the real cause of the problem: that they'd > moved the fingering in an inappropriate manner. > > Cheers, > David.
Jean: thank you very much for a solution to my problem, and the explanation. David and Andrew: Yes, the XY problem (or question) is what I meant. I started the email as "how do I get the staves to be closer together," then realized this was the wrong question.
