Re: a modest proposal for input syntax

[Bertalan Fodor]

You can achieve almost the same using

b f'=''

Perhaps if you could turn off the warning written when the octave check
fails, you could use this as the feature you are talking about, just
writing

b f='', and it automatically puts the f to the right place.

However, it would be possible to implement a feature in the LilyPond
editors (like LilyPondTool) to tell the direction while typing.

Bert

> My biggest problem in typing input is getting notes  in the correct
> octave. Relative mode doesn't help me that much because I have to
> stop and think which direction is within a fourth of  the previous
> note.
>
> The thing that's unambiguous is direction. If I'm on the b in the
> middle of the staff, the f at the top of the staff is up, and the f
> at the bottom is down, and I don't have to think to know this. As
> things are now, I have to type f to go down and f' to go up (I
> think). My suggestion is that I should type fu for up and fd for
> down, or fuu or fdd to go up or down another octave. It's simple,
> it's easy, and it's automatic.
>
> Thanks for a great program
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> Any form of incompitence is an athema to me.
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> Just between you and I, the grammar used by Americans are getting worse.
> I can only help but wonder what the cause of this might be.
> It just ceases to amaze me how it could be the case, but mostly I
> could care less.
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