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Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals
From: |
Tim McNamara |
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Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:46:59 -0500 |
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Simon Mackenzie wrote:
Sorry but as a first time user to lilypond and music in general
this section in the tutorial was about as clear as mud to me.
Not wanting to offend anyone just stating how I felt the fist time
I read this section in the learning tutorial.
I'm not sure why this is difficult. In the code you must write the
note you want. If you want a B flat, you must write "bes" (if using
the default language for LilyPond). If you want B you write "b" and
if you want B# you write "bis". LilyPond cannot guess whether you
want B, Bb or B#. It seems to me that by the end of the text under
the two examples about accidentals, this should be straightforwardly
clear. Is there some way of phrasing this that would have made it
clearer for you?
BTW, doing it this way is what allows LilyPond to transpose music to
different keys cleanly and accurately. This makes life so much
easier for the user when arranging for horns and other transposing
instruments, doing orchestral music, jazz, transposing for singers, etc.
For the developers, I think that something is confusing here for
English speakers: the use of -es and -is for flatted and sharped
notes as the default. I was initially bewildered by this, not
knowing that the default conventions are Dutch. This seems odd given
that the default language for the Web site and documentation is
pretty much English, so I think some confusion on the part of newbies
when Dutch is used in the code can be forgiven.
If the user is "new to music in general" then they have set
themselves a daunting task trying to score music with LilyPond.
There is no way for the documentation to make up for the user's lack
of knowledge about the structure of music. My condolences there but
I see no responsibility for the LilyPond documentation to tutor users
in music, only in the use of the program.
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, (continued)
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, David Bobroff, 2009/08/24
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/08/24
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2009/08/24
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Graham Percival, 2009/08/24
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Simon Mackenzie, 2009/08/25
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, James E. Bailey, 2009/08/25
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, David Rogers, 2009/08/27
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, David Raleigh Arnold, 2009/08/28
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Christ van Willegen, 2009/08/28
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/08/28
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, David Rogers, 2009/08/28
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Alexander Kobel, 2009/08/28
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/08/28