Dear Werner,
Organist here. I like this merge. As I wrote in a comment on gitlab,
perhaps \ltoe and the other similar commands should be marked as
deprecated, so that we don't have to mess with older scores where this
may have been fixed by the user.
This reminds me that I think it would be a good idea to write an article
in the Keyboard section of the Lilypond Notation Reference [1] on
writing organ music, and I will try to take a stab at it. Pedal markings
are far from the only unique part of organ music that should be covered.
I think that other things like registration indications and horizontal
brackets to designate different manuals should be mentioned.
However, like pipe organs themselves, organ notation is not very
standardized even today, and there are several ways to engrave things
like registration indications depending on what nationality or engraving
house you are replicating. For this reason, I don't think adding more
commands in vanilla Lilypond to handle things like registration
indications is needed (and also, organists make up a very small market
share of Lilypond users, anyway).
[1]
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/keyboard-and-other-multi_002dstaff-instruments
P.S. Such a page may or may not be too derivative of
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/learning/building-a-score-from-scratch
On 10/23/25 10:49 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Organ players,
please have a look at the ongoing discussion in
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2771
I would like to get more opinions.
Werner
