On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 1:07 AM Mark Stephen Mrotek <
address@hidden> wrote:
Paolo,
“I suspect it has been made, in the past, for an old fashioned style (not used in professional engraving, though).”
Looking though my Paderewski Edition of Chopin’s Piano works I find all the pedaling indications horizontally aligned. See an excerpt from Nocturne #12.
This is certainly “professional engraving
I'm sorry but I have to insist.
This is an excerpt of a very old fashioned style, which was not used (nor accepted) in professional engraving even of the 19th century.
We are lucky enough that already in that century many things have been corrected, and it would be absurd to use Lilypond's Dynamics in order to follow Paderewsky inexistent rules.
And Paderewsky's edition of Chopin is *notoriously* full of errors and non-professional.
Some observations:
1) There's not a rule, in the image you provided, about the position of the dynamics. If you look at the fourth system, the hairpins are *not horizontally aligned* but they are attached to beams.
2) When the dynamics are horizontally aligned, they show errors. Look at the fifth system: the pp dynamic is placed at the center, and this is erroneous. Even when Paderewsky was born, already editors strongly corrected these errors, by placing the dynamics at the center only in *special* cases (I can list them all, but it would be too long).
3) Look at the "dim" at the fourth system: it is nonsense.
Why would you use \new Dynamics, then?