Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 4076 in lilypond: allow bn for B-natural in English

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Comment #3 on issue 4076 by address@hidden: allow bn for B-natural in English
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4076

Regarding the issue report: while the issue summary contains a paraphrase,  
the report itself fails to mention that this change is considered for  
\language "english" only.

I've been mulling this over a bit.  I'm not overly qualified to comment on  
the primary motivation behind it, not using English note names habitually.   
The actual issue I have with this is that it promotes a divergence of user  
styles that makes it harder for people to read other people's scores and  
cooperate on common scores.

Now to be fair, that is to some degree already a problem inherent in the  
existence of notename languages.

What I am afraid of is that people will become more rather than less  
confused when trying to read something like "as as an as as a a a" or just  
something written as "as a a" in the first place.

With regard to documentation: since this is intended to help beginners, it  
would be in the Learning Manual, but presumably with a notice like "you can  
do that if you want to, but we will not be doing it ourselves anywhere else  
in the documentation".

Since especially beginners learn by example, that is not likely to promote  
this feature a whole lot.  Again: if this rationale would hold completely,  
people would not be using any note language apart from Dutch anyway.

So there is definitely quite a bit of handwaving involved in my reasoning.   
Still summarily my gut feeling is that it is not a good idea.

We should likely try to survey active users of the English notename  
language what they think of this feature overall and its effect on scores  
they may produce and come across in future.  Because those will clearly be  
the ones who are affected.

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