Re: Questions on re-organizing the woodwind (bass-)clarinet stencils

[David Kastrup]

Frédéric Bron <address@hidden> writes:

> That looks a good job you're doing here.
>
>> I want to rename the right-hand key labeled "four" to
>> "side-ees" to make to naming more consistent
>
> Could we have English names by default so that everybody can
> understand? I learnt the French names when I was young but switched to
> English names for lilypond as they are more efficient for typing but I
> will never be able to learn the Dutch one. But maybe I do not
> understand what you mean by ees (do you mean e and es = e and e flat?
> why ees?) At least if the key name starts in English by "side", it
> should finish in English by -eflat?

Disagree.  The default conversation language of LilyPond (all its
command and function names) is English, the default note language is
dutch.  side-ees is perfectly consistent with LilyPond's defaults.

> By the way I discover in 2.16 doc that the default language has moved
> to English now?

I don't know where you would have discovered this.  Probably the docs
need clarification then.

-- 
David Kastrup