Re: rehearsal marks: separate from content encoding and display above strings

[David Kastrup]

David Wright <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon 15 Aug 2016 at 17:20:09 (+0200), Johan Vromans wrote:
>> 
>> I change my remark to: "Specifying the structure of a score in
>> \global is wonderful, it just doesn't play nice with MIDI, because no
>> voice can impose a MIDI repeat structure on any other."
>
> I don't understand why you seem reluctant to give credit to what LP
> does correctly, and in accordance with the documentation.

It does not match the workflow he designed around the _graphic_ behavior
of unexpanded \repeat volta .  He is not scoring correctness but
personal convenience.  That may be frustrating for the programmers of
LilyPond in this case, but most certainly convenience scores high for a
program for which the main criticism is the awkwardness of its entry.
And there have been a lot of improvements recently (fixing q to become
reliable, allowing c2~1~8. for duration entry, the \beamExceptions
command, \fixed entry and other stuff) with regard to making input more
convenient.

I don't see him crossing this not-so-well-definable (in the context of
how LilyPond represents music) item from his personal wish list, but
I don't see anyone else crossing this item from his personal wish list
either.

Sometimes what you have is all you'll get.

-- 
David Kastrup