Re: \mark and slur

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> 2017-09-15 1:11 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>> Frankly, what does it even _mean_ to use a
>>>> particular righthand finger and string for a non-existing note?
>>>
>>> Well, that hold as well for:
>>> { -1 -- d' }
>>> but this one works.
>>
>> That's because historically you could do
>>
>> <c e g>-1-2-3
>>
>> and consequently _equivalently_
>>
>> << <c e g>
>>    s-1-2-3 >>
>>
>> either of which do the formatting differently from <c-1 e-2 g-3>, using
>> the Fingering_engraver rather than the New_fingering_engraver .
>>
>> But this historic crap is so unrelated to issue 5181 that I am not
>> interested in discussing or addressing it in this context.  Issue 5181
>> does not touch it.
>
> Indeed.
> I didn't intend to object, just to point to possible expectations.
> Also, adding post-events to non-existing notes does not make a lot of
> sense, musically speaking, yes.
> But LilyPond accepts already
> { <>^.\fermata }
> Ok, the output is bad, but the "does it make sense?"-argument is then
> not that strong, imho.

I was not talking about post-events in general (which include things
like \< which are partly even positioned deliberately between notes).
But a righthand finger indication or a string number?

Might make sense when putting such execution instructions into a
separate music variable, but they are mostly used for guitar and other
quite explicitly polyphonic instruments so the note/event association
seems important.

-- 
David Kastrup