Re: es means ees???

[Richard Shann]

Thank you to all who replied - I didn't think to look in the "note names
in other languages" section.
Richard

On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 13:41 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > In the lilypond 2.19 installed file
> >
> > usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/chord-modifiers-init.ly
> >
> > I see the following at line 27
> >
> >   <c es ges>-\markup { \super "o" } % should be $\circ$ ?
> >
> >
> > Here, instead of ees, is written es.
> >
> > I've tried this out, and it appears to be a synonym, but I don't see
> > this documented. Anyone know what's going on?
> 
> That's the natural name for it, cf
> <URL:http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/music-glossary/pitch-names>.
> I don't know where you have looked for the information, but in the
> canonical point of documentation (or, depending on how you view it,
> immediately adjacent and cross-referenced from it), namely
> <URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/writing-pitches#note-names-in-other-languages>,
> 
> I read
> 
>     In Dutch, aes is contracted to as, but both forms are accepted in
>     LilyPond. Similarly, both es and ees are accepted. This also applies
>     to aeses / ases and eeses / eses. Sometimes only these contracted
>     names are defined in the corresponding language files.
> 
> The "sometimes" sentence is somewhat hand-waving and it is not clear to
> what it applies.  Dutch as the default note entry mode also intended for
> foreigners and automatic notename generation, is more lenient in its
> forms.  German, IIRC, only accepts the correct contracted forms.
>