sustainOn

[James E. Bailey]

See, this is why I should subscribe to the development list…
While changing sustainDown/sustainUp to sustainOn/sustainOff makes  
sense in the lilypond internals, it really doesn't make sense  
musically. No one is going to confuse placing a sustain marking above  
the staff. They don't go there, they never go there, that makes about  
as much sense as putting guitar fretting or tablature below the staff,  
they don't go there, it would be confusing to have the option.  
sustainDown was one of the things that makes lilypond so normal. You  
play a piano, you push down on the pedal, and it sustains. In computer  
terms, something is switched on, but computer language doesn't have to  
mimic what the computer does. Lilypond syntax is really logical, this  
is a step in the illogical direction, if you ask me. It's up there  
with changing figured bass so that it's input backwards from how  
anyone conceptualises the musical term.

I vote, as a pianist, for sustainDown/sustainUp. Who's with me?