[gsharp-devel] "bar" or "measure"

[Robert Strandh]

Hello,

Magnus Johansson has suggested that Gsharp use the term "bar", rather
than "measure" in the user documentation to indicate the music
material between two barlines. 

The book by Ross uses "measure" rather than "bar" but it uses
"barline", and not "measure line" (which I have never heard).  What do
other authors use?

Internally, of course, there is still a distinction between "bar",
which is the music material between two barlines within a layer, and
"measure" which is the music material between two barlines of every
layer, but this fact does not necessarily influence our choice of
user-level terminology.

On the other hand, we might want to make that distinction to the user
as well, in which case we might as well use the same one internally
and to the user.

Comments?
-- 
Robert Strandh

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