On 6/25/20, Paolo Prete <paolopr976@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