<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 14 Apr 2017, at 21:52, <a href="mailto:pje24@cantab.net" class="">pje24@cantab.net</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">An isolated "e" tells you nothing, and looking up "e" tells you merely what the first leadhead is. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">It's a bit of a stretch to claim labelling something as "e" instead of "4" or "4,12" is a more intuitive and meaningful system. And with the present system it completely makes makes a balls up of eg bob triples as Don points out.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">A system that one is accustomed to will always appear to be more intuitive than one which is unfamiliar – in the case of change ringing, this has led to a large number of traditions which not only make no sense, but actively work to obscure useful information. I would argue that this is the reason that the Decisions are such a mess in the first place.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My ‘solution' was not intended as a best fix, but to demonstrate that if we wanted, we could use lead head codes in a way that would give more useful information immediately, without needing a reference table. It had been bothering me that the current system was clearly not designed for higher bell ringing at all (as PJE mentions), and I wondered if there was a way to combine the solutions to both problems in a single stroke.</div></body></html>