On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 03:30:00PM EST, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 08.12.2017 20:09, Chris Jones wrote: > > Wouldn't this become rather painful/tedious if the gentleman who wrote > > this particular song had had the bright idea of transposing it to > > a fancier key like... G# major for instance? > > > > If that were the case I would have to add an "is" to just about every > > single note in the score! > > You could use e.g. english note names if it’s only about the typing: that > saves you one keystroke per flat/sharp/doublesharp. > <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/writing-pitches#note-names-in-other-languages>
I can type reasonably fast... much faster than I can think, anyway. I made the decision to stick with the Dutch [is/es] because with two letters I find it easier to spot the accidentals. The reason behind this is that a beginner like myself is likely to spend far more time reading what he typed over and over in order to fix mistakes than typing. So I decided I might as well stick with a notation that is a bit less cryptic than the [b,s] English form. The extra letter helps make the accidentals stand out. Thanks, CJ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
