Lilypond doesn't know. Somewhere along the line human knowledge/input is required.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: antlists [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 4:33 PM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent On 18/05/2020 22:15, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > The natural a minor scale does not contain any sharps. But is it a natural scale? > The harmonic a minor scale has the f sharp. or a harmonic scale? > The melodic a minor scale has the g sharp and the f sharp. > But it also has g and f. So my point remains - ESPECIALLY if it's the melodic scale - how is lilypond supposed to know whether the g and f are supposed to be sharpened? :-) > Mark > Cheers, Wol > -----Original Message----- > From: lilypond-user > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of antlists > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 12:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent > > On 18/05/2020 17:33, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> We (well… modulo me LOL) don’t get this worked up about how \relative >> makes cut-and-paste a nightmare. Why start now?;) > > Those of us who only use \relative (just me?) don't have any problems with > cut-n-paste. Or is it just that my workflow is more likely to use "\repeat > unfold"? > > I've got no problem with \keyed, but there is a fly in the ointment > here ... \keyed a \minor { a b c d e f g a g f e d c b a } > > Now is that a g-natural or g-sharp? Likewise the f. > > Cheers, > Wol >
