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When using a mos different from 5L 2s, diamond-mos notation does not have traditional clefs. Instead, octaves on the staff are marked with diamonds on the left edge of the staff. The notes marked with diamonds are named J. The large diamond marks “middle J”, which is enharmonic to middle C. The point of the diamonds is to provide a visual reference for where the octaves are. It would be difficult to sightread otherwise, especially when using non-heptatonic mosses.

The mos pattern is marked on the score too. ~~Just~~ to the right of the diamonds, little boxes mark the steps of the mos. Hollow boxes represent small mossteps (s) and filled boxes represent large mossteps (L). To avoid clutter, only the small mossteps or the large mossteps are marked. The ones which get marked are the ones the mos has fewer of. (In the case of nL ns mosses, either is fine.) The boxes are another tool to make reading the score easier.

The mos pattern is marked on the score too. On each barline (to the right of the diamonds if it's the leftmost line), little boxes mark the steps of the mos. Hollow boxes represent small mossteps (s) and filled boxes represent large mossteps (L). To avoid clutter, only the small mossteps or the large mossteps are marked. The ones which get marked are the ones the mos has fewer of. (In the case of nL ns mosses, either is fine.) The boxes are another tool to make reading the score easier.

[[File:Diamond-mos ledger lines.png|thumb|Notes with ledger lines on the diamond-mos staff using [[3L 4s]].]]

The boxes on a barline show all of the mos steps the staff covers, including the steps immediately above the top line and below the bottom line. Diamond clefs cover more staff lines than other barlines, so they have more boxes. When notes on the staff use ledger lines, extra boxes may be needed to aid sightreading. If a note has more ledger lines than any other note in the same bar, extra boxes should be attached to the left side of the ledger lines. (You may add boxes to other notes if you feel it's necessary.) However, if the bar has a diamond clef on the left which already has all of the necessary boxes, boxes on ledger lines aren't needed.

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 When using a mos different from 5L 2s, diamond-mos notation does not have traditional clefs. Instead, octaves on the staff are marked with diamonds on the left edge of the staff. The notes marked with diamonds are named J. The large diamond marks “middle J”, which is enharmonic to middle C. The point of the diamonds is to provide a visual reference for where the octaves are. It would be difficult to sightread otherwise, especially when using non-heptatonic mosses.
-The mos pattern is marked on the score too. Just to the right of the diamonds, little boxes mark the steps of the mos. Hollow boxes represent small mossteps (s) and filled boxes represent large mossteps (L). To avoid clutter, only the small mossteps or the large mossteps are marked. The ones which get marked are the ones the mos has fewer of. (In the case of nL ns mosses, either is fine.) The boxes are another tool to make reading the score easier.
+The mos pattern is marked on the score too. On each barline (to the right of the diamonds if it's the leftmost line), little boxes mark the steps of the mos. Hollow boxes represent small mossteps (s) and filled boxes represent large mossteps (L). To avoid clutter, only the small mossteps or the large mossteps are marked. The ones which get marked are the ones the mos has fewer of. (In the case of nL ns mosses, either is fine.) The boxes are another tool to make reading the score easier.
 [[File:Diamond-mos ledger lines.png|thumb|Notes with ledger lines on the diamond-mos staff using [[3L 4s]].]]
 The boxes on a barline show all of the mos steps the staff covers, including the steps immediately above the top line and below the bottom line. Diamond clefs cover more staff lines than other barlines, so they have more boxes. When notes on the staff use ledger lines, extra boxes may be needed to aid sightreading. If a note has more ledger lines than any other note in the same bar, extra boxes should be attached to the left side of the ledger lines. (You may add boxes to other notes if you feel it's necessary.) However, if the bar has a diamond clef on the left which already has all of the necessary boxes, boxes on ledger lines aren't needed.