Hi Lukas, > based on my recent experience with \after, I think it might be reasonable to > develop and test something like that outside of the regular codebase, in > order to see how it fares in everyday heavy use.
For sure. > (To be honest, it's not clear to me yet what you're describing.) Well, we currently have (https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=357) %%% SNIPPET BEGINS %%% \score { \new PianoStaff = "PianoStaff_pf" << \new Staff = "Staff_pfUpper" << \global \upper >> \new Dynamics = "Dynamics_pf" \dynamics \new Staff = "Staff_pfLower" << \global \lower >> \new Dynamics = "pedal" \pedal >> } %%% SNIPPET ENDS %%% and I think it would be great if [new] users could rather do something like %%% SNIPPET BEGINS %%% \score { \new PianoStaff = "PianoStaff_pf" << \new Staff = "upper" \with { \sendTo dynamic-event "dynamics" } << \global \upper >> \new PianoDynamics = "dynamics" #(skip-of-length upper) \new Staff = "lower" \with { \sendTo dynamic-event "dynamics" \sendTo pedal-event "pedal" } << \global \lower >> \new PianoPedals = "pedal" #(skip-of-length lower) >> } %%% SNIPPET ENDS %%% This would mean that dynamics in either the \lower or \upper variables would be centred “automagically”, and pedal markings entered in the \lower variable would “automagically” appear below the staff — all without having to use extra \dynamics and \pedal variables (with all the required skips, etc.). Obviously this doesn’t solve 100% of engraving needs… but likely this would cover the vast majority of scores most users want to engrave. > one of the harder questions is the degree of generality one should strive for. Absolutely — that’s kind of why (cf. my email to Valentin) I’m thinking we should keep discussing it on-list for at least a little while longer. > I'd love to help, but I should warn that I'm clearly the least experienced of > all the people with merge privileges (which I only obtained a few weeks ago). > On the other hand, the great thing about this development model is that you > never have to rely on one person alone. Great! Onward and upward. =) Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: [email protected]
