Hi Gabriel,

> As you can see, Álvarez made a new \score block for each plainchant 
> interpolation (at the top of pages 1, 3, and 4), so there are six \score 
> blocks in this engraving file (not including those for the incipits). But 
> from my perspective (whether I wear my “performer/singer” hat, my “conductor” 
> hat, or my “engraver” hat), this is really one score.* If I were engraving 
> this piece today, I would use \pseudoIndents.

Yes! And it makes such a difference for code maintainability, code reuse 
[across different editions], etc.

> *One practical side effect of the splitting up of this music into different 
> \score blocks: The ambitus (ambits) on page 1 are misleading. For example, 
> Cantus II has a wider pitch range than one would think based on looking at 
> page 1. So does Tenor (that voice has a much wider true range than the one 
> shown on the first page!)

Exactly.

The fact that Lilypond currently forces this kind of thing to be done across 
multiple scores is definitely a “defect", in my opinion — though I use that 
word knowing that it will (and should, technically) be labelled “enhancement” 
in the tracker.  ;)

Best,
Kieren.
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