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

[lilypond]

Comment #14 on issue 4076 by address@hidden: allow bn for B-natural in English
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4076

Since one cannot write f instead of fs when f-sharp is native to the key,  
I don't see that a style of fanning out g into g and gn depending on the  
key signature can be developed into a reasonably idiomatic/helpful personal  
style.

It would be an interesting programming challenge to facilitate note entry  
following the key signature (presumably with a "forget" accidental style  
philosophy as far as it concerns note entry).  But I suspect it would turn  
into a copy&paste nightmare quite worse than that presented by \relative  
mode (which only needs corrections for the first note of a pasted passage  
and the first note afterwards).

In a way, "absolute accidentals" may be a dutchism.  But I don't see that  
we improve the situation for English-thinking users by offering an "escape"  
for naturals only.  That's freedom of the "you are allowed to move anywhere  
as long as you do not leave the cage" kind.  As long as g and gn remain  
perfectly synonymous independent of key, I fail to see a tangible benefit  
here.

Of course I may have problems putting myself into English-speaking users'  
shoes anyway.  I just don't see the planned shoe make for a better fit,  
never mind that it's not my foot that needs to go in.

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