Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

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On 18/05/2020 22:15, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote:
> The natural a minor scale does not contain any sharps.

But is it a natural scale?

> The harmonic a minor scale has the f sharp.

or a harmonic scale?

> The melodic a minor scale has the g sharp and the f sharp.
But it also has g and f. So my point remains - ESPECIALLY if it's the 
melodic scale - how is lilypond supposed to know whether the g and f are 
supposed to be sharpened? :-)

> Mark
Cheers,
Wol

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> On 18/05/2020 17:33, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> > We (well… modulo me LOL) don’t get this worked up about how \relative
> > makes cut-and-paste a nightmare. Why start now?;)
>
> Those of us who only use \relative (just me?) don't have any problems with cut-n-paste. 
> Or is it just that my workflow is more likely to use "\repeat unfold"?
>
> I've got no problem with \keyed, but there is a fly in the ointment here ... 
> \keyed a \minor { a b c d e f g a g f e d c b a }
>
> Now is that a g-natural or g-sharp? Likewise the f.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol