Re: wrong note name conversion in musicxml2ly

[mari+lilypond]

At least the output of musicxml2ly should be consistent with lilypond
and should not not give an error message when compiling.

Here the german Wikipedia for "double flat b":
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppel-b


On 2/9/20 1:49 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> 
>> when converting a mxl file with "musicxml2ly --language=deutsch" the
>> note "beses" is converted to "bes". Lilypond gives an error at this
>> notename with \language "deutsch", because the correct german notename
>> for "double flat b" is "heses". This happens with all musicxml2ly
>> versions at least from 2.18.2 to 2.21.0.
> 
> Just trying to fix it, but I find the following in
> scm/define-note-names.ly in the German section:
> 
>                 (heses . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 DOUBLE-FLAT))
>                 (heseh . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 THREE-Q-FLAT))
>                 (b . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 FLAT))
>                 (beh . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 SEMI-FLAT))
>                 (h . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 NATURAL))
>                 (hih . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 SEMI-SHARP))
>                 (his . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 SHARP))
>                 (hisih . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 THREE-Q-SHARP))
>                 (hisis . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 DOUBLE-SHARP))
> 
> That looks almost like something I could work with, except for beh .
> For all other note names, the suffix -eh indicates _lowering_ by a
> quarter note, whereas beh _raises_ b by a quarternote.  Shouldn't it
> rather be heh , making b the _only_ exception?
>