See, this is why I should subscribe to the development list…
While changing sustainDown/sustainUp to sustainOn/sustainOff makes
sense in the lilypond internals, it really doesn't make sense
musically. No one is going to confuse placing a sustain marking above
the staff. They don't go there, they never go there, that makes about
as much sense as putting guitar fretting or tablature below the staff,
they don't go there, it would be confusing to have the option.
sustainDown was one of the things that makes lilypond so normal. You
play a piano, you push down on the pedal, and it sustains. In computer
terms, something is switched on, but computer language doesn't have to
mimic what the computer does. Lilypond syntax is really logical, this
is a step in the illogical direction, if you ask me. It's up there
with changing figured bass so that it's input backwards from how
anyone conceptualises the musical term.
I vote, as a pianist, for sustainDown/sustainUp. Who's with me?
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