Re: Pedal cautionary after a line break (current status and improvements)

[Paolo Prete]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 9:32 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:

> Hi Paolo,
>
> Le 23/06/2020 à 21:09, Carl Sorensen a écrit :
> > Paolo,
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:33 PM Paolo Prete <paolopr976@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> 2) Considering that a Pedal cautionary is *essential* in *every* serious
> >> score, I really encourage the developers to fix this in the development
> >> branch. I forward this post to the devel ml.
> > There is no way to "encourage the developers to fix this".  The
> > developers are all volunteers, and work on what they find interesting.
> >
> > If you really want this worked on, here are a few ideas:
> >
> > 1) Ask if there are any developers who are willing to do it as work
> > for hire.  And then either pay the developer or try to get together a
> > group of users to collectively pay the developer.
> >
> > 2) Learn about LilyPond development and provide your own patch.  This
> > is one of the benefits of open source projects.  You can "scratch your
> > own itch".
> >
> > 3) Try to find somebody else who might make the change, either out of
> > interest or for money.  For example, you might find a computer science
> > student at a local school who is interested in music.
> I think filling an issue on https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/
> (with Type::Enhancement) would be a good starting point.This will
> sort-of officialize that this feature is desired and create a place
> to discuss it. Then, if that issue is really important to you,
>


This issue is not *important for me*. It is an *essential* feature for any
score.
If it won't be implemented, then I'll find a way to fix it on myself (and
then share the result, as I always did).

Best,
P



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