Issue 903 in lilypond: Enhancement: a more user-friendly way to specify notename languages

[lilypond]

Status: Accepted
Owner: v.villenave
CC: percival.music.ca
Labels: Type-Enhancement Usability Priority-Medium OpSys-All

New issue 903 by v.villenave: Enhancement: a more user-friendly way to  
specify notename languages
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=903

Currently (as of version 2.13.7), the only way to use another language than
the default for the notenames is:

\include "italiano.ly"

This has two downsides: it's not user-friendly at all, and cannot be used
in safe mode.

It has been proposed (you may want to read the thread starting on
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-05/msg00254.html for
instance) that a more convenient shortcut could be used.

Several shortcuts have been suggested:

\notelanguage "italiano" { ... } (only applies to one block)

\lang "italiano"

or even:
\italiano

I am ready to work on a patch as soon as we define what the policy would
be: shall we simply add the new shortcuts on top of the existing syntax or
shall we deprecate the \include-based syntax, shall we wait for a major
version bump, shall we write a convert-ly rule or not, etc.

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