Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-27 Thread Dan Eble
On Aug 26, 2014, at 21:56 , David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Dan Eble d...@faithful.be wrote: Knute Snortum ksnortum at gmail.com writes: Adding an n modifier isn't saying that C Sharp is C Natural, it's an assertion. Yes, I really mean

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
Dan Eble d...@faithful.be writes: On Aug 26, 2014, at 21:56 , David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Dan Eble d...@faithful.be wrote: Knute Snortum ksnortum at gmail.com writes: Adding an n modifier isn't saying that C Sharp is C Natural, it's an

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-26 Thread Keith OHara
David Nalesnik david.nalesnik at gmail.com writes: In the US, I hear people calling c-sharp c often enough. This usage is certainly not good practice in music theory classes (where I correct it whenever I can). I can't say anything about informal usage. The original question here was about

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-26 Thread David Kastrup
Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net writes: David Nalesnik david.nalesnik at gmail.com writes: In the US, I hear people calling c-sharp c often enough. This usage is certainly not good practice in music theory classes (where I correct it whenever I can). I can't say anything about informal

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-26 Thread Graham King
On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 00:03 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: Btw, bn would also help people who have to switch between german and dutch/english naming often (e.g. me). Janek makes a good point, but I'm not sure whether the problem to which he refers is caused by the existence of different national

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-26 Thread David Nalesnik
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: David Nalesnik david.nalesnik at gmail.com writes: In the US, I hear people calling c-sharp c often enough. This usage is certainly not good practice in music theory classes (where I correct it whenever I can). I

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-26 Thread Knute Snortum
Just my two cent's worth: Adding an n modifier isn't saying that C Sharp is C Natural, it's an assertion. Yes, I really mean natural. No, I didn't just forget the sharp. Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:22 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-26 Thread Dan Eble
Knute Snortum ksnortum at gmail.com writes: Just my two cent's worth: Adding an n modifier isn't saying that C Sharp is C Natural, it's an assertion. Yes, I really mean natural. No, I didn't just forget the sharp. That sounds like a benefit, but I would think that people who value cn for

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-26 Thread David Nalesnik
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Dan Eble d...@faithful.be wrote: Knute Snortum ksnortum at gmail.com writes: Just my two cent's worth: Adding an n modifier isn't saying that C Sharp is C Natural, it's an assertion. Yes, I really mean natural. No, I didn't just forget the sharp.

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-25 Thread Keith OHara
David Winfrey dlw at patriot.net writes: A new accidental for entering natural notes would be useful. In English, this would be 'n', as in 'bn4' or 'gn2'. This is in the bug tracker as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4076 It is easy to add an alternate name for a pitch,

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-23 Thread David Winfrey
Keith OHara k-ohara5a5a at oco.net writes: Phil Holmes mail at philholmes.net writes: But if you enter b4 in F major, you'll get a natural typeset, so there can be no confusion. It seems like you're effectively proposing that b4 is a b natural I've entered accidentally, but bn4

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-23 Thread David Kastrup
David Winfrey d...@patriot.net writes: Keith OHara k-ohara5a5a at oco.net writes: Phil Holmes mail at philholmes.net writes: But if you enter b4 in F major, you'll get a natural typeset, so there can be no confusion. It seems like you're effectively proposing that b4 is a b

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-23 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:57 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: David Winfrey d...@patriot.net writes: Keith OHara k-ohara5a5a at oco.net writes: Phil Holmes mail at philholmes.net writes: But if you enter b4 in F major, you'll get a natural typeset, so there can be no

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
As my musical education and practice is from a different note language, I cannot really say much about the motivation of that approach. In my country one would never call a cis just c when talking about music, not even informally (but then nobody wants to get caught being informal anyway).

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-23 Thread Phil Holmes
Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote in message news:20140823.201350.355342913...@gnu.org... As my musical education and practice is from a different note language, I cannot really say much about the motivation of that approach. In my country one would never call a cis just c when talking about

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-23 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014-08-23 6:57 GMT+02:00 Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net: As I understand David, Lily need not show any difference. Accepting the explicit bn helps the user read his own input. If you learned the note-names as referring generically to scale steps, with B being the general term, B-natural and

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-22 Thread Phil Holmes
David Winfrey d...@patriot.net wrote in message news:loom.20140822t182826-...@post.gmane.org... A new accidental for entering natural notes would be useful. In English, this would be 'n', as in 'bn4' or 'gn2'. These would have exactly the same effect as 'b4' or 'g2', but would be easier to

Re: New feature suggestion

2014-08-22 Thread Keith OHara
Phil Holmes mail at philholmes.net writes: David Winfrey dlw at patriot.net wrote in message news:loom.20140822T182826-365 at post.gmane.org... A new accidental for entering natural notes would be useful. In English, this would be 'n', as in 'bn4' or 'gn2'. These would have exactly