Re: Brazen feature request

[David Kastrup]

Nils <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:00:40 -0700
> David Rogers <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The request is for six commands (NOT markups, but actual music commands
>> that affect the MIDI output and so on):
>> 
>> \segno
>> \fine
>> \tocoda
>> \coda
>> \dacapo
>> \dalsegno
>
> Disclaimer: I am not a Lilypond developer. But I guess the answer
> would be something like:
>
> Yes, shorter engraving commands for those are good (instead of the
> verbose markup syntax) but the midi stuff is only wasting programming
> resources.

Since there are no programming resources to direct, that argument would
be irrelevant.  Anybody is free to work on the feature of his choice.
You just can't expect others to share your own priorities.

Working on Midi is actually rather hard because of the code being rather
inaccessible.  But that is a red herring since the job supposedly would
be done by \unfoldRepeats anyway.

> Lilypond is no notation sequencer. A midi output without repeats is
> well suited for error checking by ear.

For proofreading, don't use \unfoldRepeats.  Simple as that.

-- 
David Kastrup