Re: Transposing pitches in the lilypond file itself?

[Alasdair McAndrew]

Thanks, David - for the heads up about Emacs Lilypond mode!  I don't use 
Emacs for everything, but I do use it for a lot of things; and certainly 
for anything involving text (like Lilypond) it's my standard go-to.  But 
what is it about the Lilypond mode which is so abominable?  I just use it 
really for note-entering, and for each new piece I start off with one of my 
templates.  The font-lock minor mode (coloring) is very helpful. 
(Also, I'm curious - which Emacs mail system are you using?  I've tried 
several, but none of them really appealed to me.  I'm now using the inbuilt 
mail system which is part of the Vivaldi browser.  I also agree about 
LaTeX: I've installed Emacs on my Windows machine as well because 
Emacs+auctex works for me better than any other editor or LaTeX IDE.)

Alasdair

On Thursday 13 January 2022 01:02:17 (+11:00), David Kastrup wrote:

> Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks, Guy.
> >
> >
> > I use the Linux Emacs editor (which has a lilypond mode), and there
> > might be something there, but I was just after a little advice - I
> > have used Frescobaldi, but for me Emacs is faster and more efficient.
>
> Emacs' LilyPond-mode is an abomination in desperate need of maintenance
> or possibly rewriting from scratch. There is no reason to use it unless
> you are one of those people who use Emacs for everything (in contrast,
> the mail/news client I am writing this in would be a reason to switch to
> Emacs rather than vice versa. As are the LaTeX modes). However, it
> probably has the only useable MIDI pitch recognition for polyphonic
> entry like those of accordions.
>
> If I needed to batch-convert some input regarding relative/absolute or
> transpose, I'd likely start up Frescobaldi. Never mind that it isn't
> the one editor to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
>
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