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Public documentation terminology

Public guides use musician-facing language by default. Follow the terminology contract in docs/guide/instruments-and-scores.md#terminology:

• document means the whole .mnx file;
• MNX part or source part means the schema object that owns music;
• MNX score definition means the schema object that selects a layout and can render either a score or an instrumental part;
• layout means the staff/group tree that maps source parts into an output;
• score, section score, instrumental part, and part extract mean musician-facing rendered outputs.

Never call an MNX source part a printed part, and never imply that an MNX score definition is necessarily a conductor score. Prefer “the document stores…” over “the score stores…” when describing file-level data.

Example: write “The document contains one Flute source part, and separate MNX score definitions render it in the full score and Flute 1 instrumental part.” Do not write “The Flute part appears in two scores” unless the surrounding text has already made the data-model meaning explicit.