3648 – revolution revisited

[Simon Albrecht]

Hello,

I currently try out the consequences of issue 3648 
<http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3648>, namely the 
possibility to use isolated durations as frequently as has been normal 
for isolated pitches. It certainly means a change to the habits of 
entering music in LilyPond language, but I can imagine that it 
considerably simplifies typing in the long run. This way, the following 
music (verbose version)

\version "2.19"
\relative { d4 c4 c2 }

becomes

\relative { d4 c 2 }

– which, unfortunately and of course, doesn’t work, since it results in 
only two notes being output, d4 and c2.
However, it would be great for consistency and automatisation of writing 
music if it could work. Which would mean to forbid any spaces or line 
breaks between pitch and duration, if they belong to the same note, and 
interpret them as two notes if there is any space or line break inbetween.
I don’t see any problem in that with normal input, whereas in other 
cases like music functions the space might be necessary.
What do you think?

Best, Simon