Re: Can't have rehearsal mark and segno mark at same moment

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 10/08/2022 à 13:54, Dan Eble a écrit :
> On Aug 10, 2022, at 00:38, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Just imagine a piece (say, a waltz by Johann Strauss[*]) that has not
> > a single segno, but a bunch of them.  It might confuse an orchestra if
> > the conductor asks to start 'at the segno' during a rehearsal – from
> > experience I can tell you that at least one musician will ask 'which
> > one?'…
> Then that score is not an example of using a segno and a rehearsal mark at the 
> same point.
>
> It is an example of ambiguous segni, and stacking rehearsal marks on top of 
> them addresses only half of the issue: the D.S. instructions remain ambiguous.



As a musician, if I see


Segno       Dal Segno     Segno      Dal Segno    Segno    Dal Segno

I will understand it as


|:         :|             |:           :|         |:         :|

It is technically ambiguous, but I understand what is meant,
especially if the segni are removed from each other.



> > In other words, it actually does make sense to have both rehearsal
> > marks and segno signs at the same position.
> Between preparing caesura-related MRs, I will try allowing a rehearsal mark to 
> occur at the same point as the other types of marks.  Maybe now, after having 
> spent some time away from it, I will see other ways to do the things that made 
> me implement the restriction in the first place.
>
> I would like advice on whether it would be ideal to split Mark_engraver into 
> Rehearsal_mark_engraver and Performance_mark_engraver.


To be sure I understand: what would be the respective
responsibilities of these engravers?



Thanks,
Jean