Le mercredi 23 janvier 2008 à 10:55 -0800, Graham Percival a écrit : > > > 2008/1/22, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > I agree; I've never encountered the term "half-flats". But maybe > > > > it's a European thing? (or a poor translation from the > > > > appropriate terms in Dutch or French or something?)
"Half-flat" perfectly makes sense, as a flat is a semi-tone and we want to name a quarter tone i.e. a half of a half tone). However, "quarter-flat" may have been already too much used to allow using anything else... Well, never mind about this, it's just a too rational thought from a math student :-) > Mostly jokingly. I spent 60 seconds looking through the history > before suggesting it here, but decided that I wasn't /that/ > curious. > > > (which is how I suspect it crept into ours). > > Actually, I doubt that. I can't see Han-Wen looking up musical > terms in wikipedia... especially four or five years ago when the > original docs were written. I'm curious to know whether Han-Wen has looked up this in a serious reference... that would make a good reason to keep the mathematically correct terms in our docs :-p Cheers, John _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
