"Fr. Samuel Springuel" <rpspring...@gmail.com> writes: > I just discovered that in English, there’s a shorter way to name notes > that would normally be specified with “-sharp” or “-flat”: “s” and > “f”. E.g. “f-sharp” can be written as “fs” and “b-flat” can be > written as “bf”. > > However, I noticed that this is not documented in the Music Glossary: > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/music-glossary/pitch-names. Only > the “-sharp” and “-flat” name are mentioned there. Is there a reason > this behavior is not documented? It is certainly much easier to type > the shorter name than the longer one but I don’t want to rely on > something that might break unexpectedly.
The glossary does not document LilyPond but common language. It wrote about "c-sharp" long before the English input language allowed the spelling "c-sharp" (I think the original long name might have been csharp). -- David Kastrup
