a modest proposal for input syntax

[James Wilkinson]

My biggest problem in typing input is getting notes  in the correct 
octave. Relative mode doesn't help me that much because I have to 
stop and think which direction is within a fourth of  the previous 
note.

The thing that's unambiguous is direction. If I'm on the b in the 
middle of the staff, the f at the top of the staff is up, and the f 
at the bottom is down, and I don't have to think to know this. As 
things are now, I have to type f to go down and f' to go up (I 
think). My suggestion is that I should type fu for up and fd for 
down, or fuu or fdd to go up or down another octave. It's simple, 
it's easy, and it's automatic.

Thanks for a great program
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Jimmy Wilkinson            | Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
address@hidden        | The College of Charleston
(843) 953-8160             | Charleston      SC        29424
http://www.cs.cofc.edu/~jimmy

If there is one word to describe me, that word would have to be 
"profectionist".
Any form of incompitence is an athema to me.
Metathesis??? Don't ax me.
Just between you and I, the grammar used by Americans are getting worse.
I can only help but wonder what the cause of this might be.
It just ceases to amaze me how it could be the case, but mostly I 
could care less.