----- Original Message -----
> From: David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>
> To: Hans Aberg <haber...@telia.com>
> Cc: bug-lilypond@gnu.org
> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 4:19 AM
> Subject: Re: Using Unicode symbols for accidentals
> 
> Hans Aberg <haber...@telia.com> writes:
> 
>>  On 12 Nov 2011, at 05:38, David Kastrup wrote:
>> 
>>>  Unfortunately, it is just programmers and not musicians who have a
>>>  reasonable chance of being able to figure out how to produce ♯ on a
>>>  computer keyboard.
>> 
>>  One approach is having an editor which can provide replacements for
>>  input text. So one just types fs..., and it will replace it with
>>  f♯. The editor of this mail wants to replace ... by …, so I have to
>>  trick it not to. :-)
> 
> If the editor is doing smart replacements anyway, he can display an
> actual note (akin to the kind of moving letter types used for
> typesetting scores at the time of Monteverdi).

That could be quite a compelling editor, with the text entry caret on the 
staff-- kind of like "speedy entry" in Finale but without the need to use 
the arrow keys to navigate around.

> 
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> David Kastrup
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