Re: \harmonic on note outside chord.

[Mats Bengtsson]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
>
> > > Is there a reason not to allow \harmonic on a note that is not part of
> > > a chord? Or is this a bug?
> >
> >
> >
> > Also, the same question goes for stringnumbers, "c\1" does not work but
> > "<c\1>" does!
>
>
> try doing \displayMusic on both
>
>   <c-.>
>
> and
>
>   <c>-.
>
> As you can see, in the latter case, the articulation is not attached 
> to the note, and it would be difficult to attach the right symbol 
> (articulation, fingering, etc.) to the right note head.

As far as I can see, your argument is that LilyPond handles c-. exactly the
same as <c>-.  which in turn should imply that c\1 would be the same as
<c>\1 (which does not make sense since you cannot attach a single 
fingering to a
full chord).

Then, why could we not rather treat c-. as <c-.>, which is just as logical
and would allow for harmonics and fingerings on single notes?

I realize that the parser might get slightly more complex, but that's 
the job of the
parser, right? To convert something that's intuitive for the user into a 
representation
that is convenient for the computer.

  /Mats