Richard Shann <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 11:04 +0900, Graham Percival wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 01:41:30PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> > Richard Shann <[email protected]> writes: >> > >> > > Here, instead of ees, is written es. >> > >> > I read >> > >> > In Dutch, aes is contracted to as, but both forms are accepted in >> > LilyPond. Similarly, both es and ees are accepted. This also applies >> > to aeses / ases and eeses / eses. Sometimes only these contracted >> > names are defined in the corresponding language files. >> >> Yes. In case anybody was wondering, I deliberately moved the "as" >> and "es" contractions from the tutorial into the NR ages ago. For >> people unfamiliar with that notation, it's easier to remember >> "letter name plus -es or -is" rather than introducing all the >> contractions. > > That was a good idea I think. What is unfortunate is that the default > includes these contractions,
Uh, the contractions are the _proper_ names. The non-contractions are not correct note names in any language. > with hindsight it might have been better to have the default be the > simplest set of names with those that wanted to use the contractions > including a language specific file (e.g. nederlands). I disagree. There is nothing to be gained from using a notename language nobody uses. If we wanted that, we could take numbers. I see ees and aes more as a concession to computer-transliterated music than to humans. Now of course your main concern via Denemo _is_ computer-transliterated music but that does not mean that everybody else's music should look that way. > But this is a very minor thing, perhaps as a matter of style the ly > directory code should avoid the contractions? I'd consider that bad style. Again, the "contractions" are not sloppy writing or anything. They are the _proper_ German and Dutch note names. That's like stating for some hypothetical computer language we should not have Variable x is y, was z Variable x has grue, had worm but rather Variable x is y, ised z Variable x has grue, hased worm because it is more regular and easier to get for non-English speakers. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
