On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:35 AM Valentin Villenave <valen...@villenave.net> wrote:
> On 6/25/20, Paolo Prete <paolopr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The lack of a cautionary pedal on a bracket could be seen as an > enhancement > > only in a self-referential context, which doesn't make sense to me. A > > proper way to proceed is to check what modern professional engravers do > > with it, and check as a consequence if Lilypond is coherent with them (-> > > common practice) > > Greetings Paolo, > determining whether this issue is a “Defect” or an “Enhancement” is > largely inconsequential; as Jean said (and we should be thankful to > him for opening a tracker page on your behalf, by the way), that does > not imply a different priority. > > That being said, can you please document your claims? As a pianist > myself (and although I did specialize in contemporary music), I can’t > remember _any_ score where I’ve seen a pedal reminder after a system > break, off the top of my head. But that’s just me. > > Hi Valentine, as I said before, I can't document my claim, of course. Therefore I asked for feedback. I said to Kieren that "I am not aware of [professional] scores that do not use it" (a bracket without a cautionary string), then I asked for examples, which would be useful for me. And then I added, in another post (I quote myself): "I would ask, instead: "how many scores published by professional engravers do use a pedal bracket with a cautionary text? " AFAIK, 100%, not 1%. But this is what I know, and I could be wrong. Then I asked for counterexamples (to Kieren, in the previous post). If I'm right, then the pedal brackets are pretty unusable, at the moment, without a hack. If I'm wrong, I agree there should not be any sense of urgency, as you wrote." Here is what I also wrote: "A proper way to proceed is to check what modern professional engravers do with it, and check as a consequence if Lilypond is coherent with them (-> common practice) " That's all. The pedal bracket is a relatively recent practice. I'm convinced that not writing a cautionary string would be a really bad practice in *any* professional score, for many reasons, for any spanner. But the fact that I consider it a bad practice (and I add: a really bad one) has nothing to do with the urgency of fixing the issue. This urgency can be evaluated with a sort of average on the modern scores. Hope this clarifies. Best, P >
