Re: removing automatically generated natural signs

[Chris Jones]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 03:30:00PM EST, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> On 08.12.2017 20:09, Chris Jones wrote:
> > Wouldn't this become rather painful/tedious if the gentleman who wrote
> > this particular song had had the bright idea of transposing it to
> > a fancier key like... G# major for instance?
> >
> > If that were the case I would have to add an "is" to just about every
> > single note in the score!
>
> You could use e.g. english note names if it’s only about the typing: that
> saves you one keystroke per flat/sharp/doublesharp.
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/writing-pitches#note-names-in-other-languages>

I can type reasonably fast... much faster than I can think, anyway.

I made the decision to stick with the Dutch [is/es] because with two
letters I find it easier to spot the accidentals.

The reason behind this is that a beginner like myself is likely to spend
far more time reading what he typed over and over in order to fix
mistakes than typing.

So I decided I might as well stick with a notation that is a bit less
cryptic than the [b,s] English form.

The extra letter helps make the accidentals stand out.

Thanks,

CJ