Re: ees, Was: Percussion

[Mats Bengtsson]

This is actually documented in the notation maunual:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Pitches.html#Pitches

   /Mats

Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote:
> On Wednesday March 17 2004 10:48, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > > On the topic of ambiguities, es and ees both are e-flat; I haven't seen
> > > it documented or used so I avoid it myself. it it normal, correct, and
> > > acceptable for proper style?
> >
> > It's probably just included for completeness. For people who don't
> > speak dutch, it's easier to discribe the general principle of just
> > adding 'es' at the end of the note name, even though the native
> > speakers (at least that's what I guess) use 'as' instead of 'aes' and
> > 'es' instead of 'ees'.
> >
> >   /Mats
>
>
> Well I wondered if it was allowed; I think I found it as a mistake. I had one 
> piece I wrote in 'my style', which consists on 'how small byte size can I 
> go'. LilyPond reads it fine, but emacs can't even color it. It was about 
> 2k-2.5k in size; It went up at least an additional k after I went back and 
> redid it to my current standards. 'es' was just 1 of the things I was using 
> to shorted my files back then.
>
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