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<DIV>Hello!<BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Robert Strandh"
<<A href="">strandh@labri.fr</A>><BR>To: <<A
href="">gsharp-devel@common-lisp.net</A>><BR>Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006
8:07 PM<BR>Subject: [gsharp-devel] "bar" or "measure"<BR><BR><BR>>
Hello,<BR>><BR>> Magnus Johansson has suggested that Gsharp use the term
"bar", rather<BR>> than "measure" in the user documentation to indicate the
music<BR>> material between two barlines.<BR>><BR>> The book by Ross
uses "measure" rather than "bar" but it uses<BR>> "barline", and not "measure
line" (which I have never heard). What do<BR>> other authors
use?<BR><BR>EMJ: I believe "bar" is being used more and more, and "measure"
becoming <BR>obsolete. "Measure" is heard more often in the USA than
elsewhere.<BR><BR>><BR>> Internally, of course, there is still a
distinction between "bar",<BR>> which is the music material between two
barlines within a layer, and<BR>> "measure" which is the music material
between two barlines of every<BR>> layer, but this fact does not necessarily
influence our choice of<BR>> user-level terminology.<BR>><BR>> On the
other hand, we might want to make that distinction to the user<BR>> as well,
in which case we might as well use the same one internally<BR>> and to the
user.<BR><BR>EMJ: Yes, absolutely. I would like to suggest: "system bar" instead
of <BR>"measure".<BR><BR><BR>> Comments?<BR>> -- <BR>> Robert
Strandh<BR>><BR>>
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