Hello William,
> Organist here. I like this merge.
Thanks!
> 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.
'Deprecated' is too harsh a word IMHO – if you want to use inverted
symbols for the left foot, for example, you will need them. Let's say
that `\ltoe` and siblings are demoted to being commands for accessing
certain glyph shapes.
> 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.
Great!
> 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.
Well, if you need an extensive apparatus of user-defined macros and/or
Scheme functions for these additional features, they should probably
be added to the LSR instead, and the NR might reference them. Please
bear in mind that, first and foremost, the NR should describe what
LilyPond provides by default.
> 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
Agreed.
Werner
