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Re: New feature suggestion
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David Nalesnik |
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Re: New feature suggestion |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Aug 2014 12:43:03 -0500 |
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:57 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> David Winfrey <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Keith OHara <k-ohara5a5a <at> oco.net> writes:
> >>
> >> Phil Holmes <mail <at> philholmes.net> writes:
> >> >
> >> > But if you enter b4 in F major, you'll get a natural typeset, so there
> >> can
> >> > be no confusion. It seems like you're effectively proposing that b4
> is a
> >> b
> >> > natural I've entered accidentally, but bn4 is one I've entered
> >> deliberately.
> >> > How would Lily show the difference?
> >> >
> >>
> >> As I understand David, Lily need not show any difference.
> >> Accepting the explicit bn helps the user read his own input.
> >
> > This is what I meant; there would be no difference in the output.
> > The Lilypond parser would simply ignore 'n' if it finds 'n' when
> > it expects an accidental or note.
>
> As my musical education and practice is from a different note language,
> I cannot really say much about the motivation of that approach. In my
> country one would never call a "cis" just "c" when talking about music,
> not even informally (but then nobody wants to get caught being informal
> anyway). Is this really significantly different in English?
>
>
In the US, I hear people calling "c-sharp" "c" often enough. This usage is
certainly not good practice in music theory classes (where I correct it
whenever I can). I can't say anything about informal usage.
--David
- New feature suggestion, David Winfrey, 2014/08/22
- Re: New feature suggestion, Phil Holmes, 2014/08/22
- Re: New feature suggestion, Keith OHara, 2014/08/23
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- Re: New feature suggestion, Keith OHara, 2014/08/26
- Re: New feature suggestion, David Kastrup, 2014/08/26
- Re: New feature suggestion, David Nalesnik, 2014/08/26
- Re: New feature suggestion, Knute Snortum, 2014/08/26
- Re: New feature suggestion, Dan Eble, 2014/08/26
- Re: New feature suggestion, David Nalesnik, 2014/08/26
- Re: New feature suggestion, Dan Eble, 2014/08/27
- Re: New feature suggestion, David Kastrup, 2014/08/27