[GLISS] Syntax of \parallelMusic

[Alexander Kobel]

Hi, all,


something to discuss for the GLISS... I don't know where the right place 
is for such a suggestion (or if it's there at all), so I send it to 
-devel - so that it ends up in the archives at least.


I propose using a different separator for \parallelMusic than "|", and 
allow to include bar checks in there.

\parallelMusic as is is very fine and handy, but sometimes you want to 
enter a whole phrase of two or three measures in a single go, and 
include the bar checks in there for readability and checking later on.
It somewhat disturbs the workflow if you always have to look up where 
the voiceN ended up in the last measure, especially if you have larger 
intervals in the voices, or reentering the durations if one voice stays 
in 16, the next in 8 and the third in 2.

What about, e.g., ":"? It's fast to type, and AFAICS, it only is used 
for chord mode and figured bass. And I don't see a use for those two in 
\parallelMusic, since - well, you usually only have one chord at a time, 
right?
Another idea: "||", to serve both as bar check and as delimiter. And 
there's definitely no use conflict against two bar checks at the same 
point in time, right?


Cheers,
Alexander