Ralph Palmer <palmer.r.violin <at> gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Keith OHara <k-ohara5a5a <at> oco.net> wrote:Dear list, > In English, pronouncing the 'natural' in 'C-natural' is required if the note is out-of-key. LilyPond does not consider the key when reading note- input, but could easily accept 'cn' as a name for the pitch C-natural. There was a feature request on the bug-list, that LilyPond do so. > Among those responding to the proposal, the Americans were in favor, while the British Germans Dutch and Flemish opposed. > I have started using English note-entry with 'cn', etc., for naturals when I would say "natural" and I find it helpful. If anyone else will use it, I'll push for it and put it in LilyPond. > > Hmm. . . . I am an American and I am opposed, for the reasons given in the previous discussion(s). My 2 cents. >
Then I'll propose that LilyPond accept 'cn' only when the user requests that input style, and I won't call that style 'American'. Another inconvenience with \language"english" is that its default names are the long forms, so \displayLilyMusic \transpose c e {fs as cs} is not as helpful for rearranging music as it could be. I'm proposing \language"abbreviated" for people who want to use \displayLilyMusic to generate brief english, and/or want to type 'cn' for the same reasons that we sometimes pronounce 'natural' in English. <https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4076#c26> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user