> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Paolo Prete <paolopr...@gmail.com> > To: Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> > Cc: Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com>, Lilypond-User Mailing List < > lilypond-user@gnu.org>, lilypond-devel <lilypond-de...@gnu.org>, Pierre > Perol-Schneider <pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com> > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 21:07:27 +0200 > Subject: Re: Pedal cautionary after a line break (current status and > improvements) > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:00 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> > wrote: > >> So, in order to produce a concrete result, at least the point 2) should >> be accepted / understood. This is what I tried to do, but the thread seems >> to go in the opposite way. This is why I think that opening a ticket would >> be unuseful for now and I did not open it. But if you think it could be >> useful, be free (of course) to open it ... >> >> This is precisely the heart of the question. LilyPond development is >> (mostly) not driven by the importance of issues but rather by pleasure and >> interest. Which means that you just need one person willing to spend time >> on >> piano pedals − and skilled enough for that − regardless of the issue's >> weight. That can happen now, or in months or in years, who knows. In the >> most extreme cases, issues can be resolved a decade after they were >> reported. Look at the one David Stephen Grant fixed just two weeks ago: >> >> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/1722 >> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/119 >> This is why issues are so essential. They help organize work on a long >> time frame. >> >> By the way, the Type::Enhancement label expresses no judgement about >> wether the >> issue is a major one. It's to be understood as opposed to Type::Defect: >> this ticket >> is about an enhancement because the current output is consistent and >> there is >> no crash. >> >> I opened https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6005 . >> >> > I would not proceed in this way. > 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) > AFAIK nobody uses a bracket without a starting word in professional > engraving, it would have too many bad side effects. And opening an issue as > an enhancement IMHO will weaken the urgency of fixing this. > > Best, > > P > > Not that anyone asked my opinion, but I feel compelled to point out:
1) There should NOT be any sense of urgency, since nothing is broken. It just doesn't work the way you want to, it's not as good as it could be. There are workarounds. It is something that is needed in surely less than 1% of all sheet music, so it is practically speaking, irrelevant. 2) Your complaining about the lilypond community process for how the issue was tagged will probably reduce anyone's interest in working on it. So, even if you do succeed in getting it tagged as more urgent, it will likely be a pyrrhic victory. Elaine Alt ela...@flaminghakama.com
