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Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals
From: |
Graham Percival |
Subject: |
Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:22:31 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:46:59AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote:
>
> 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.
Well, the sentence immediately after the introduction of
is/es/isis/eses says "This syntax is derived from note naming
conventions in Nordic and Germanic languages, like German and
Dutch."
(although that might have changed after you started using it)
> 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.
Actually, in some ways there is -- the music glossary. And those
links are at the top of every section in the Learning manual!
So I'd say this: if somebody is new to music in general, doesn't
read the Learning manual carefully, and doesn't read about
unfamiliar terms in the music glossary, then they'll have a very
daunting task.
Cheers,
- Graham
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, (continued)
- 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
- Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals, Graham Percival, 2009/08/28