Re: subito PP

[David Kastrup]

Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> Le 17/07/2022 à 19:14, Benjamin Tordoff a écrit :
>> Thanks David & Jean, both approaches work well and look good. The
>> original indications were left aligned to the note so the alignment
>> adjustment isn't needed in this case. I have no idea if one of these
>> is technically superior to the other, although I suspect the fact I
>> need both sub.P and sub.PP means less code with David's approach.
>>
>> I wonder if this could be added to the snippet examples about
>> defining new dynamics? I don't think I would have stood any chance
>> of finding either solution without your help, and I suspect I'm not
>> the only one who might need this.
>
>
> Well, I don't like documenting stuff that I would like to see improved
> in the first place. It would make a lot more sense to carry the volume
> in the event so you could implement a function used like
>
> subPP = \dynamic #0.5 \markup { sub. \dynamic pp }

Agreed.  Incidentally, my approach doesn't care just how the MIDI volume
is derived and would continue to work even after such a change of
implementation.

-- 
David Kastrup