Re: removing automatically generated natural signs

[Urs Liska]

Am 8. Dezember 2017 21:06:05 MEZ schrieb Ben <address@hidden>:
>On 12/8/2017 2:58 PM, Urs Liska wrote:
>>
>>> (from documentation)
>>> "...
>>>
>>> To determine whether to print an *accidental*, LilyPond examines the
>>> pitches and the key signature. The key signature only affects the
>>> */printed/***accidentals, not the note’s pitch!
>>>
>>> --> This is a feature that often causes confusion to newcomers, so
>let
>>> us explain it in more detail.
>>>
>>> LilyPond makes a clear distinction between musical content and
>layout.
>>> The alteration (flat, natural sign or sharp) of a note is part of
>the
>>> pitch, and is therefore musical content. Whether an accidental (a
>>> */printed/***flat, natural or sharp sign) is printed in front of the
>>> corresponding note*is a question of layout*.
>> But to be fair one should note that there are serious encoding
>systems out there that work like the OP expects, for example the MEI
>encoding format or the Amadeus notation software.
>>
>
>I didn't think Amadeus was still being developed...?

It isn't but there still are a handful og users still around who had invested 
enormous amounts of money back in thr eighties ;-)
It seems the original developer is still alive snd can be talked into fixing 
small items occasionally.

Urs

>
>> When I discussed the topic with an Amadeus power user he said that he
>would go nuts with all the typing (of the extra is and es) with the
>thousands of pages of music he has to create every year.
>
>I went nuts typing with SCORE for years but looking back, it built 
>character I say :)
>
>> MEI on the other hand wants to encode "what is on the paper", that
>is: an "a" for any pitch on that step.  However, I don't accept that
>because that a flat in e flat major is *not* printed as an "a" that
>becomes an a flat through the key signature. Actually it's a note head
>in the second space that becomes an a through the treble clef and only
>then an a flat.
>>
>> Urs
>>

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