Re: wishlist

[J. Daniel Ashton]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> J. Daniel Ashton wrote:

>> I'm sure these have come up before, but I ran into them again yesterday
>> and wanted to make sure they're in someone's official "consider
>> implementing" list.

>> 1. an easy way to get a nicely engraved "rit." marking
> How about ^\markup { \bold \italic rit. }

Yes, I was trying something like that (see below) but my fundamental
concern is this: I percieve the italic font to render as something
different from the rit. and cresc. that I expect to see in beautifully
engraved scores.  Given the emphasis on beautiful engraving, are we
satisfied to leave these very common markings to the font rendering
system?  Or do they deserve to have their own glyphs?

>> 2. ditto for things like "subito pp"

> Did you see
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.1/input/test/out-www/collated-files.html#dynamic-extra.ly

Ah, very helpful.  But still not satisfying my concern above.

>> For any of these that are already implemented, please feel free to
>> instruct me and/or update the docs.  I checked the 2.1.16 docs for all
>> of these, as well as the tips page, and I also searched the history of
>> this mailing list, with minimal satisfaction.

These markings (rit, cresc, subito, piu, and others) are so common that
I think they deserve their own entries in the unified index.  No?

> See
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.1/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Text-markup.html#Text%20markup

That's the page I had missed.  The point I needed is that the markup
must be attached to something (a note?) using ^ or - or _.  Without the
attachement, the markup is thought to be lyrics, and flagged as an error.

Still, my gut says that there should be individual glyphs for these
common markings, to make them as perfect as our noteheads and stems,
sharps, flats, etc.

Hey, Mats, thanks again for being so quick and helpful with your replies.

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