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Nice work
Thanks for all the good work on Dynamic tonality today. It's a fascinating subject. I didn't quite agree with some of your changes, like replacing hyphen by nbsp in rank-2 used as a modifier, and few other things, so I made some tweaks. Let me know if you disagree. Also note that changing the first-letter case of a piped link like tonic to tonic does nothing useful; best leave those alone as WP:COSMETIC. Dicklyon (talk) 00:36, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

And I just reverted your latest, which you were probably working on while I did mine, and ended up with an edit conflict. You need to resolve he conflict (i.e. take the diff across a couple of versions to see what you intended to change, then make just those changes on the latest version so you don't undo my fixes; or look at my diff and re-do those changes on top of your latest). Dicklyon (talk) 00:44, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

On the "rank 2" issue, note that it's conventional to hyphenate a compound when it's used as an adjective, to clarify the parse for the reader. See MOS:HYPHEN. And see book stats, which show most of the un-hyphenated uses are not before nouns, and most of the hyphenated uses are. So rank-2 temperaent, rank-2 note space (I'm assume that what is means is that these things have a rank of 2). Also note I had taken the hyphen out of note-space, as that one makes sense as an open compound used as a noun, not as modifier. Dicklyon (talk) 03:57, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Here are some examples of hyphenation (or not) in "rank-2 temperament". This Milne, Sethares & Plamondon paper is mixed, with "rank-2 temperament" but no hyphen in "reduced rank tuning system" (which is just wrong, as it's not a rank tuning system that's reduced). Dicklyon (talk) 04:29, 21 January 2024 (UTC)