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Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals
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David Raleigh Arnold |
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Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:37:46 -0400 |
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On Sunday 30 August 2009, David Bobroff wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:13:56PM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold
wrote:
> >> But in this instance, the majority of coders line up in opposition.
> >> You have shouted down the users, but convinced none. Why? Because
> >> you are wrong.
> >
> > We don't care.
> > We don't have to.
> > We're the telephone company.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham "if you don't recognize it, look it up. It's funny!"
Percival
>
> I've seen this discussion come up before. The coders are not wrong
(and
> no, I'm not a coder). This is the way LilyPond works. LilyPond is
> designed to take the musical content and render it according to
> established engraving practice. Musical content includes pitches. If
> you enter a 'b' in the key of b-flat LilyPond will produce a 'b' as
> LilyPond has no way of knowing what pitch you actually want. That's
the
> pitch you entered.
>
> Likewise if you use TeX, or a high-dollar word processor, and you type
> "there" the program isn't going to know if you should have
typed "their"
> or "they're". It will print it very nicely on the page for you but
> that's all. YOU supply the information. The program provides the
> printed output. It is the user's job to know what information to
> supply. This includes the actual pitch names.
>
> You can either choose to learn that rule or you can write an extension
> to make LilyPond do it another way. I rather suspect that the
cerebral
> overhead required for the latter is rather higher than simply
> remembering that you must enter complete information for all pitches.
A sed script to do it was almost trivial, even for me. Regards, daveA
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- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, (continued)
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/08/28
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, David Rogers, 2009/08/28
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, David Raleigh Arnold, 2009/08/29
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Patrick McCarty, 2009/08/29
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/08/29
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Graham Percival, 2009/08/30
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, David Bobroff, 2009/08/30
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/08/30
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals,
David Raleigh Arnold <=
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/08/30
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, David Raleigh Arnold, 2009/08/31
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/08/31
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Mark Knoop, 2009/08/31
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, David Raleigh Arnold, 2009/08/29
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2009/08/29
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/08/29
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, David Raleigh Arnold, 2009/08/31
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, David Rogers, 2009/08/31
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/08/31