Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 4076 in lilypond: allow bn for B-natural in English

[lilypond]

Comment #30 on issue 4076 by address@hidden: allow bn for B-natural in  
English
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4076

Re #27, letting users choose when to specify 'an' lets us focus our own  
search for errors in proofreading.  In C-minor, 'c' is not suspicious,  
but 'b' is worth an extra character if we think in English and are already  
thinking "B-natural" for that pitch.

I already use an editor script (simple word-search) to find the B's in  
C-minor, and now I like having a way to mark with 'bn' the notes that I  
have checked.

Re #28, I don't see the problem that would be compounded.  Natural language  
is usually less precise than specifications or computer input.  In this  
case, the "-flat" that annoys the human is needed by the computer, so we  
have to say 'af' when speaking to LilyPond.  I don't claim to help LilyPond  
understand natural English.

The existence of "-natural" in English is not a problem; it is a helpful  
redundancy that remains helpful to me in LilyPond input.

If both "af a" and "an a" produce the engraved and MIDI output that  
LilyPond understood, we can correct errors.  Error messages from the  
LilyPond parser on invalid input are less helpful.  A smart user would  
type "af an" and "an an".

The idea is to let me type B-natural, which is what I'm already thinking,  
in a melody in C-minor so that I, or maybe other mutopiaproject users, can  
find my mistakes more easily.

\language"abbreviated"  % or, for now, \include "abbreviated_names.ily"
\new Staff \transpose c c'' {
  \key c\minor \partial 2
  r16 g f g ef g d g |
  c g bn, g c g d g ef g g, g an, g bn, g |
  c g bn, g c g d g ef g d g c g bf, g |
  af, g bf, g c f af, f d f c f bf, f af, f |
  g, f af, f bf, ef g, ef c ef bf, ef af, ef g, ef |
  f, ef g, ef af, d f, d bn, d af, d g, d f, d |
  ef, d f, d g, c ef, c r2 }

Attachments:
        abbreviated_names.ily  2.8 KB

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