> >>> >>> 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. > > This percentage is meaningless for me. 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. 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. > > I won't see the thing like a battle of someone against someone else. It's an interesting question which deserves further study, IMHO. Best, P > > Elaine Alt > ela...@flaminghakama.com > >
