On Thursday 16 November 2006 00:49, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Erik Sandberg escreveu:
> > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:25, Mads Sejersen wrote:
> >> 2006/11/14, Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> Then he could use 4c8 instead, or does lilypond have any special
> >> meaning for prepended digits?
> >
> > hm, then maybe 8c4 is an even better choice ("8th of pitch c4"). I
> > guessed that the request for c4 syntax for pitches is related to some
> > musicological convention where c4 is the actual pitch name.
>
> I think it is something either from midi or MUSEDATA (aka. Cobol for
> musicologists).
>
> prepended and appended digits are the same due to whitespace being
> insignificant.
>
> c8 c4 c8 = c8 c 4c8 = c 8c4 c8
yes, but not if he implements the syntax using a preprocessor which doesn't
ignore whitespace (i.e. something like s/\([0-8]+\)\([a-g]\)4/\2'\1/ )
--
Erik
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