Hi Paolo, > I don't think it would be useful to assign a layer to the pedal information. > It doesn't add any benefit in terms of visual clarity, it doesn't save space > and it adds redundancy (which is hard to manage when the score becomes bigger > and bigger). And I never saw a score in which there's a horizontal ideal line > for dynamics: as well as pedals, they should be always near the notes they > belong, otherwise they hare uncomfortable to be associated to them. As said > before, I can be easily wrong (then, I would be glad to see an example which > shows me an advantage of this feature).
My scores often have broken pedal indications, and when they don’t line up along a single system it’s very visually distracting. That’s one of the (many) reasons I like keeping my pedal indications in a separate variable, and engrave them in a separate context. As always, YMMV. ;) Cheers, Kieren.
