Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Am I the only one that thinks
upper = { BLAH }
\new Staff = "upper" \upper
is potentially confusing?
Definitely! Please change. I once get an instruction for the local
telephone exchange at the company where I worked, which said something
like "If you for example take vacation until March 3, press *32*0303#"
which was just as confusing.
Also, I'm not sure that it's good practice to have spaces in the
instrumentName: this is just lazy programming, and may lead to
problems later (e.g., when they decide to center-align the names).
Agreed!
Finally:
1. Modern practice for vocal music engraving is to ALWAYS beam
eighth notes; and,
2. Including \autoBeamOff in these "simple" templates might be
confusing.
Therefore, I think we should leave \autoBeamOff out of the mix, and
either put a note to the effect of "for typesetting older vocal music,
use \autoBeamOff" or (better yet, IMO) leave it for the vocal music
section proper.
I would have to go home and look into my music engraving handbook to
verify your claims. However, I know that several people on the mailing
list have claimed that beaming often is used in vocal music to denote
melismata. This is also what LilyPond does for all manually entered beams.
I hope you compare the templates with what the LM and NR (at least the
sections that have been updated) have to say.
/Mats
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