In landscape orientation, the width of the iPad screen is about 7.75 inches (don't have one personally, but using the Pythagorean theorem on a 9.7" diagonal), which is about a quarter-inch wider than a line of a US-Letter size printing with 1/2 inch margins (7.5" line length, about 190 mm). So you would have the same approximate length of line as that, but would probably only set about 2 or three systems on a screen.
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:27 AM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrew Bernard <[email protected]> writes: > > > Call me old-fashioned or antique, but despite their ubiquity, iPads > > and Kindles are just too small to read music from at any proper > > distance. There is a reason music scores are on large paper - > > readability. When iPads get to 235 x 310 mm screens (Klavierformat > > piano score paper size) then maybe it will be good. So I can't see > > where the convenience lies. > > The size requirements decrease when the music stand does its own > page-flipping since then you have much less dormant screen estate. > > However, currently the choice is between slow updating screens (not well > suited for frequent page flipping, let alone continuous scrolling) and > comparatively low-contrast devices that are not overly convenient for > concert lighting conditions. > > I'm pretty sure that there are fundamental changes for music handling > possible. But we're not there yet. > > -- > David Kastrup > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
_______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
