Re: pitches second draft

[Graham Percival]

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> 1. Sharps and flats are used in an example shown in Relative
> octaves entry and in the text above it before they have been
> mentioned anywhere.  To an English speaker is and es are
> incomprehansible at first sight.  Even in the LM they are
> used in 2.2.1 before the explanation in 2.2.2.  I know the
> Notation Reference is not meant to be read sequentially, but
> it will be.  Perhaps they should be introduced (as briefly
> as you like) in the first section on Absolute octave entry.

Good catch about the tutorial!  I've added this to the list.

As far as the user manual goes, I disagree.  We need to assume that 
users have read the learning manual.  If they have not, then we 
officially do not care about those users.  That is one of the basic 
policy decisions that I made about GDP.  One of the problems in the 
previous docs was that I tried to make the user manual sequential.  That 
leads to too many oddities.

> 2. At the bottom of Accidentals there is a cryptic comment
> about microtones and MIDI.  As neither micro tones nor MIDI
> have been mentioned so far this seems misplaced.

In the example immediately preceding that sentence:

     \set Staff.extraNatural = ##f
     ceseh ceh cih cisih

> 3. The note names table in other languages is poorly
> formatted (at least in html).

What's poorly formatted about it?  The table is a bit too wide; is that 
what you mean?

Cheers,
- Graham