On Sun, 9 Jul 2023, Knute Snortum wrote:
> note out of the other hand. This is why I suggested that the MIDI performer
> could ignore \parenthesize notes. Would this create a pile of workarounds
> for you?
Not as long as I don't use \parenthesize. But I think it's preferable not
to have a presentation command ("print this in parentheses") with
non-obvious semantic consequences ("don't include these notes in MIDI
output"). Parentheses can mean many different things in different pieces
of music; your situation is only one of those. Making remove-from-MIDI
always the behaviour of parentheses, or the default unless overridden,
would create Surprises! for anyone who tries to use parentheses for some
other purpose and expects them to just be marks on the page.
Better for "don't include this in MIDI" to be a separate command instead
of a side effect of parentheses. Less good, but pragmatic because it
doesn't require changing LilyPond, would be to use "tagging" to exclude
the unwanted notes from the version of the music used to generate MIDI.
--
Matthew Skala
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