Hi all,
this list of MIDI instrument names would deserve some reformatting or
even rewriting.
I'm saying this as someone who has never read this before.
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/midi-instruments
The following things are all true at the same time, which makes the
list hard to navigate with screen-reading software (i.e. when I can't
see the screen):
- the items are arranged vertically rather than horizontally,
- the table is stored as continuous text rather than a proper HTML table,
- there's no information about which instrument name corresponds to
which program number.
- Now suppose I want to find out what instrument name is used for the
MIDI program number 82 in the listings that go from 1 to 128 (or 81 in
those that go from 0 to 127).
- Or suppose I'd like to know the program number corresponding to te
MIDI instrument called "flute".
- If the items were either arranged horizontally or if they were
stored in a proper table (or both), then the program number would be
easy to figure out because:
1) if the items were stored in a proper table, I could use keystrokes
for moving up and down rather than left or right, so that I could
calculate the program number by first finding out how long one column
is and then calculating how many times I should multiply this number
to get as close as possible to the desired program number.
2) if they were arranged horizontally, I could still do it even
without proper tables, assuming that each line always contains the
same number of items, so that I could count how many lines I have to
go up or down to find the particular program number.
- Obviously, the absolutely best case would be if the items were
arranged horizontally, at the same time they would be presented as a
proper table, and at the same time the program numbers would be
included as well.
Thoughts?
Thanks.
Petr