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This is an appendix to [[Dave Keenan]] & [[Douglas Blumeyer]]'s guide to RTT | This is an appendix to [[Dave Keenan]] & [[Douglas Blumeyer]]'s {{subpage|prev|text=guide to RTT}}. The tables in this article present our recommendations for communicating about [[regular temperament theory]] (RTT), in particular the names and notations for temperament matrices, tuning schemes, interval complexities, and measurement units. | ||
Our recommendations are designed to make this topic easy to learn for musicians who do not have technical backgrounds, though we have generally deferred to established mathematical, scientific, and engineering conventions for the benefit of those who do. | Our recommendations are designed to make this topic easy to learn for musicians who do not have technical backgrounds, though we have generally deferred to established mathematical, scientific, and engineering conventions for the benefit of those who do. | ||
See [[Extended_bra-ket_notation#Variant_including_curly_and_square_brackets|here]] for more information on our variation on extended bra-ket notation. | |||
We've followed a symbol formatting pattern, explained by the table below, which we hope serves as an aid to quickly identifying objects and remembering their properties and purposes, but at the least we hope our choices are unobtrusive. In short, the objects with simple units of primes, generators or cents, i.e. the things which are actually audible in our application, are distinguished by upright formatting, while other variables are italic as is conventional. This is crossed with the mathematical convention that objects of order-1 like vectors are bolded and order-2 like matrices are uppercased: | We've followed a symbol formatting pattern, explained by the table below, which we hope serves as an aid to quickly identifying objects and remembering their properties and purposes, but at the least we hope our choices are unobtrusive. In short, the objects with simple units of primes, generators or cents, i.e. the things which are actually audible in our application, are distinguished by upright formatting, while other variables are italic as is conventional. This is crossed with the mathematical convention that objects of order-1 like vectors are bolded and order-2 like matrices are uppercased: | ||