NOTATIO

I'm not sure what you mean, Michel -- you can aways use Staff Visiblity to hide a given ossia.

This took under 5 mins. There's no prefatory clef or "ossia" label, I grant you. But the ossia is automatically given more space. The only manual adjustments I made were slightly moving the lyric syllables away from the dashed barlines.

test @OCTO

Is it working...?

The page header region is pretty large, by comparison with the rest. You could reduce it slightly. What staff size are you using? I tend to use a 15pt staff (3.75pt space), which is slightly smaller than Size 6. Choral music can be written quite small -- in fact, the often-seen schoolboy error is us...

Is it one Claff...? (Never look for analogues in English!)

One would hope that the greater connection (connexion?) that we all have with each other would bring more standardization -- in notation, too, as well as language.

Yes. No difference.

Faber have published an "entry-level" version of Behind Bars, covering the "General Conventions", but not going into all the detail. It's basically the first 240 pages for £25, which makes it more affordable, particularly for students; and so might get it more widely circulated. ...

Well, that backfired. I've been asked to come in and give a talk about my work.

However, it turns out they are using the Novello edition; they just sent the CPDL files for the students to have at home.

Yes, that was my alternative move -- though slightly more work than a hasty email!

Just received an email from the Head of Music at my daughter's school, about their forthcoming production of Dido & Aeneas. It included the CPDL edition that they're using, which is ... not particularly well laid-out. I'm wondering whether to reply, along that the lines that it does students no ...