Adds snippet showing transcription of mensural music to modern (issue 235660043 by philehol...@googlemail.com)

2015-05-20 Thread PhilEHolmes
Reviewers: Trevor Daniels, J_lowe, Message: Please review. Description: I've now taken the snippet I added to the LSR concerning using the same underlying music to create both mensural and modern music, and added it to the NR where previously there was a ToDo. It's probably not perfect, but

Re: Add French-specific note names (issue 239930043 byv.villen...@gmail.com)

2015-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: on my laptop I have to hold down the Alt key and the Fn key, and type JOU, which is actually 164 with the Fn key pressed. That’s because, for some unexplainable

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread Paul Morris
Another thought, how about the name \regular? It works in two senses: 1. Instead of contrasting relative and absolute the contrast is between relative and plain {…} entry, which is LilyPond's default, standard, or “regular” mode of note entry. So \regular makes it explicit that the notes are

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
(3. A mostly-trivial poetic bonus: regular and relative are easy to remember as a pair because the alliteration of them both starting with “re.) Bonus? Only native English speakers think along such lines, I reckon :-) I strongly vote against \regular in this context. It's far too easy to

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread Wols Lists
On 20/05/15 18:05, James wrote: /slaʊ/ the town of Slough in the Thames Valley of England Come friendly bombs ... :) Also reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti I always show this to my non-native English speaking colleagues to show them how ridiculous English

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
James p...@gnu.org writes: However [English] is a very forgiving language, you can really mangle our sentence structure and we'll still know what you mean ;) Uh no? The dog bites the man has a different meaning from The man bites the dog whereas in German Der Hund beißt den Mann and Den Mann

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com writes: Another thought, how about the name \regular? I don't find that any better than any previous proposal. \relative is not irregular. 2. “regular” also refers to the consistency or regularity of the octave indications in this entry mode, as contrasted

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: (3. A mostly-trivial poetic bonus: regular and relative are easy to remember as a pair because the alliteration of them both starting with “re.) Bonus? Only native English speakers think along such lines, I reckon :-) The pronunciations of cough, bough,

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread Wols Lists
On 20/05/15 18:18, David Kastrup wrote: James p...@gnu.org writes: However [English] is a very forgiving language, you can really mangle our sentence structure and we'll still know what you mean ;) Uh no? The dog bites the man has a different meaning from The man bites the dog whereas

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread James
On 20/05/15 17:50, David Kastrup wrote: Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: (3. A mostly-trivial poetic bonus: regular and relative are easy to remember as a pair because the alliteration of them both starting with “re.) Bonus? Only native English speakers think along such lines, I reckon

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com writes: On May 20, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: (3. A mostly-trivial poetic bonus: regular and relative are easy to remember as a pair because the alliteration of them both starting with “re.) Bonus? Only native English speakers

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
Wols Lists antli...@youngman.org.uk writes: On 20/05/15 18:18, David Kastrup wrote: James p...@gnu.org writes: However [English] is a very forgiving language, you can really mangle our sentence structure and we'll still know what you mean ;) Uh no? The dog bites the man has a

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Except you're doing a ghoti Bernard Shaw on our sentence structure. German declines its articles, so you can tell subject and object by article, in English we have to do it by position *relative to the verb*. German has other niceties, like der gefangene Flohthe prisoned flea der

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread Anthonys Lists
On 20/05/2015 19:19, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Except you're doing a ghoti Bernard Shaw on our sentence structure. German declines its articles, so you can tell subject and object by article, in English we have to do it by position *relative to the verb*. German has other niceties, like der

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread Paul Morris
On May 20, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: (3. A mostly-trivial poetic bonus: regular and relative are easy to remember as a pair because the alliteration of them both starting with “re.) Bonus? Only native English speakers think along such lines, I reckon :-)

Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2015-05-20 Thread pls
On 20.05.2015, at 20:19, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: Except you're doing a ghoti Bernard Shaw on our sentence structure. German declines its articles, so you can tell subject and object by article, in English we have to do it by position *relative to the verb*. Schweine fressen die

Re: Assessment of Allura at SourceForge

2015-05-20 Thread Trevor Daniels
Trevor Daniels wrote Sunday, May 17, 2015 9:33 AM Subject: Assessment of Allura at SourceForge Hi I've now completed my assessment of Allura at SourceForge against the list of requirements supplied by Phil. There are some differences from GoogleCode, but these are relatively minor and

Re: Part_combine_iterator: treat child iterators as a set (issue 240020043 by nine.fierce.ball...@gmail.com)

2015-05-20 Thread nine . fierce . ballads
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Re: Improving the Contributors Guide and LilyDev

2015-05-20 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hello, Status update: I have extended my trip to California (I'm visiting my employer's client) until June 6th, and I'm very busy with my day job. I should be able to resume work on LilyDev by June 13th - I hope that delay is not a problem. Anyway, I think that the proof of concept that I've