On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:08:23 -0600 "Trevor Ba__a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 2:39 AM, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 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?) > > > > Please do not *always* assume that because something is weird, it > > must be French :) Hey, I singled out a different country first. Now granted, I *do* always assume that because something is weird, it must be European... > Right, I say change the terms in our docs. Changed in Accidentals. If there's anything that needs changing in "note names in other languages", please post specific instructions. > Sidenote: Graham had suggested (maybe jokingly?) to check the > wikipedia history under "Accidentals" to find out how the term got > into their docs 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. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
