Re: Moving fingering, spacing between staves

[Knute Snortum]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 8:04 AM David Wright <lilylis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Fri 09 Sep 2022 at 10:38:24 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > Le 07/09/2022 à 01:00, Knute Snortum a écrit :
> > > In order to avoid the AB problem,
> >
> > What do you call by "AB problem"?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
>
> > > what I'm trying to do is move some
> > > fingering down in the system, but the problem I run into is I get too
> > > much space between staves.
>
> A tyro would have asked how to close up the staves
> and cause a timewasting discussion, before eventually
> revealing the real cause of the problem: that they'd
> moved the fingering in an inappropriate manner.
>
> Cheers,
> David.

Jean: thank you very much for a solution to my problem, and the explanation.

David and Andrew: Yes, the XY problem (or question) is what I meant.
I started the email as "how do I get the staves to be closer
together," then realized this was the wrong question.