Neil Puttock wrote: > LGTM. > > > do I need to do anything described in CG 8.7 "Adding or > > modifying features"? Should I add a @item to > > changes.tely? > > No and no. :)
Well, I did a little more research into this and unfortunately the situation is a little more complicated than I had initially hoped. Ironically, the only clear thing concerns neither the accent nor the marcato, but the staccatissimo script. I'll get to that... First I need to mention that Kurt Stone and Ted Ross contradict each other on some points. By way of visual example, Kurt Stone implies that the `marcato' should always appear outside the staff, however his example is misleading because it shows only the most obvious configuration. Ted Ross (whose book precedes Stone's by a decade) is careful to show more exceptional circumstances and states that the marcato "can be treated similarly to [the accent], although it can be used within the staff more freely. Indeed, scanning through my score collection (mostly Breitkopf & Härtel) revealed far more marcato's inside the staff (where applicable) than outside. On the topic of the `accent' script, Kurt Stone writes: Although accents are usually placed outside the staff, there are situations when it is necessary or desirable to place an accent inside the staff, in which case it should appear in a space rather than on a line and should never be closer to the note-head than a fourth. The Ross book confirms this but further implies that the distance between the note-head and the accent should not exceed a seventh. To this I'll add my own observations: In the simplest situations, the accent script appears outside the staff, even when there is space for it in the staff. However, there are a number of situations which may influence (but not require) a decision to set the accent inside the staff: 1) the note-to-script distance exceeds a seventh. 2) the accented note is part of a polyphonic passage. 3) the accent is combined with another articulation that is normally inside the staff (like a staccato or tenuto). 4) a better slur or tie would result (in which case all accents under the slur or tie should be set inside the staff). 5) an ambiguity would be prevented with a nearby note from another staff. On the subject of the staccatissimo script, Stone claims that it "almost always appears outside the staff" whereas Ross asserts the opposite: "it is placed next to the note head wherever possible". Again, Ross's statements are better supported in the literature: of all the samples I found that could fit in the staff (among Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, and Prokofiev), only one (!) was outside the staff (near the end of Prokofiev's 8th sonata), which I assume was an engraver's oversight. ************************ So, I'm changing my initial proposal. Now I think: 1) marcato should remain quantized. 2) staccatissimo should become quantized. 3) accent should either be a) de-quantized, or even better, b) programmed "smart", ie. conditional quantizing according to the points above (how hard would this be? Are any of the points manageable?) Comments? Thanks - Mark _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel