Re: a modest proposal for input syntax

[Dominic Neumann]

2007/8/10, Bertalan Fodor <address@hidden>:
> You can achieve almost the same using
>
> b f'=''
>
> Perhaps if you could turn off the warning written when the octave check
> fails, you could use this as the feature you are talking about, just
> writing
>
> b f='', and it automatically puts the f to the right place.
>
> However, it would be possible to implement a feature in the LilyPond
> editors (like LilyPondTool) to tell the direction while typing.

That would be very nice. However, I´ve managed this quite good. I
really seldom have to change the direction afterwards, because I typed
it the wrong way.

>
> Bert
>
> > 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
> > --
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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.
> >
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