Re: Style for Editorial Rests

Thanks, Kieren!

Kieren MacMillan wrote:

> For anything “editorial”, I always prefer square brackets. (That’s also
> the convention/standard seen in several critical editions/series.)
>

Do you happen to have a good example from a critical edition at your
fingertips? Or does anyone else reading this message know of a good example?

I found Using brackets instead of parentheses for \parenthesize - LilyPond
wiki
<https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Using_brackets_instead_of_parentheses_for_%5Cparenthesize>
and used that code to mock up the following:

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My concern with this approach is that busy professional singers might see
the square brackets whilst sight-reading and think, “What does that mean?
Am I actually supposed to observe that quarter rest or not? Do the beats in
this measure add up to a whole note or not?” The distraction could cause
reading errors and lost rehearsal time.