Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> I've always thought that the post-event nature of lilypond is its own
> worst enemy.  My particular pet peeve is that it means you can't
> terminate a piano pedal P with an asterisk * on the last note of a
> piece, since the \sustainOn occupies the post-event location and
> there's nowhere for the \sustainOff to go.  I work round this with an
> extra voice and spacer rests, but it's not too clever.

<>\sustainOff should work fine.  Clever enough, but likely no extra
points for prettiness.

> As mentioned by me earlier in the week, it makes automatically
> generating code a bit odd, too, since you need to store the post
> events up until you've written the note.

For accents, I find the post-event order quite appropriate.  With
dynamics, it starts getting strained.

-- 
David Kastrup