Why not use a spread bracket \__/ for pedal?
\---- ped -----/\-p3-/\----------una corda---------/
and tuplets?
/--------11---------\
and bis?
/------------ bis ------------\
and impossible chords?
/-0-\
The tuplet should align with the stem ends and beams,
but the others could be entirely horizontal. The bis
must begin and end at barlines. You might want to be
able to begin and/or end a pedal at a barline also (?).
Advantages of spread over straight bracket:
* No need to change angles at ends
* No confusion with beams or stems
* Better pedal indication
* Advantages of straight and curved bracket
with disadvantages of neither
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It doesn't matter that typesetters leave a bar off the
beginnings of lines. What matters is the reason. One
does not have two barlines between measures, and that
would be the case if the end of one line and the
beginning of the next both had bars. One might wonder
where the other measure went. It would be a
good idea, therefore, to have a barline at the
beginning of a piece *if* it starts on the first
beat. It would make more sense, because then the
number of bars would equal the number of measures,
which is the way it should be, excepting coincidental
double bars or repeat signs. This is yet another
opportunity for lilypond to do better than the
engravers did. The measure is the consequence of
having barlines, historically and logically.
Engravers always lacked historical perspective,
because they never had money. Maybe that affected
their powers of reasoning too. ;-)
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