This brings up the point that there do
indeed seem to be a set of people trying to use lilypond for baroque
music engraving. Lilypond seems heavily oriented around nineteenth
century practice (leaving aside it's wonderful support for ancient
notations) and the very usual and common set of baroque keyboard
ornaments (meaning, in particular, the French ones) have to be done with
complex special techniques that are not easily understood or
manufactured by those who do not know Scheme.
Why can't lilypond be extended to have in the base code a full set of
French baroque ornament signs and symbols? How would one initiate such a
request?
It's interesting that it was only two or three weeks ago that I myself
asked about pincé, and here it is again. So there is some growing
demand.
I am of course aware that there is generally more than one way to notate
the French ornaments, but that can be dealt with I imagine.
Andrew
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