Re: Organ notation for toe and heel

Dear Werner,

Organist here. I like this merge. As I wrote in a comment on gitlab, 
perhaps \ltoe and the other similar commands should be marked as 
deprecated, so that we don't have to mess with older scores where this 
may have been fixed by the user.

This reminds me that I think it would be a good idea to write an article 
in the Keyboard section of the Lilypond Notation Reference [1] on 
writing organ music, and I will try to take a stab at it. Pedal markings 
are far from the only unique part of organ music that should be covered. 
I think that other things like registration indications and horizontal 
brackets to designate different manuals should be mentioned.

However, like pipe organs themselves, organ notation is not very 
standardized even today, and there are several ways to engrave things 
like registration indications depending on what nationality or engraving 
house you are replicating. For this reason, I don't think adding more 
commands in vanilla Lilypond to handle things like registration 
indications is needed (and also, organists make up a very small market 
share of Lilypond users, anyway).

[1] 
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/keyboard-and-other-multi_002dstaff-instruments

P.S. Such a page may or may not be too derivative of 
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/learning/building-a-score-from-scratch

On 10/23/25 10:49 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> Organ players,
> 
> 
> please have a look at the ongoing discussion in
> 
>    https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2771
> 
> I would like to get more opinions.
> 
> 
>      Werner
>