On Tuesday, April 7, 2020, Kieren MacMillan <kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> wrote:
> 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. HI Kieren, Why do you say they are visually distracting? You could simply use point and click in order to add a pedal or to jump from one pedal to another one. Cheers P
