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since most paper used in publishing is in portrait mode, I generally presume that the shorter number is the width, and the longer the length. most writing paper here is measured this way: 8.5 x 11 (letter), 8.5 x 14 (legal), etc... So this is your assumption based on habit and experience, rather th...

Hello there, hope you are all well! Million-dollar question: when you see the description of a page of music, let's say 9x12 in or 250 x 320 mm, what do you visualise? Is the first number indicating the width or the height? Please motivate your opinion with specific countries' conventions. You will ...

I've not been able to find a definite answer on their website, but have you tried Acrobat Reader, the free version? It has plenty of features already, and Combine may be one of them. Alternatively, with an Adobe account and going to acrobat.adobe.com, you can combine files online. Alternative that a...

As a BTW addendum, in Scottish, English and Irish poetry &c, ‘adieu’ has usually been pronounced rather differently from the French word, although generations younger than mine (I'm 83) seem inclined to pronounce it as if French, even when they are speaking English. I wonder how it is pronounce...

I will keep it in Regular, then.
Thank you for confirming.

Thanks all!

How to know what foreign words have become part of the English language and what haven’t?

Thank you! I still need to check the original poem, but in the music, the source doesn't use Italics.

In a passage like this (poem is set and original in English), should words like "adieu" be put in Italics? Screenshot 2024-03-14 at 22.36.49.png When I learned of the rule of putting foreign words in Italic it was 2008, and since then I've seen it both ways. What is your opinion and experi...

Still... amazingly clear!
I wish more modern composers had this kind of clarity (and no, composing AT the computer is something else! )