Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

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> From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands
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>
>> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I've always thought that the post-event nature of lilypond is its own
>>> worst enemy.  My particular pet peeve is that it means you can't
>>> terminate a piano pedal P with an asterisk * on the last note of a
>>> piece, since the \sustainOn occupies the post-event location and
>>> there's nowhere for the \sustainOff to go.  I work round this with an
>>> extra voice and spacer rests, but it's not too clever.
>>
>> <>\sustainOff should work fine.  Clever enough, but likely no extra
>> points for prettiness.
>
>
> { c''1 \sustainOn <>\sustainOff }

One would have to see what happens at the engraving stage (likely a wait
for a NoteColumn or MusicalColumn that never materializes because the
piece ends here.  It might make sense to generally flush out another,
possibly specialized column when an explicit bar is placed: Things like
\! or \fermata or similar don't really benefit from moving across
explicit bars.

-- 
David Kastrup