> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Kieren MacMillan <kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> > To: David Nalesnik <david.nales...@gmail.com> > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 10:22:15 -0400 > Subject: Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent > Hi David, > > > But minor-mode music is often a conglomeration of the "forms" of the > > minor scale which makes them of limited separate utility. Nothing is > > in "harmonic minor." Notating something in minor by J. S. Bach could > > be terrifying. > > Oh, I totally agree with "terrifying" (and, in my opinion, unhelpful). =) > I’m just pointing out that it’s not difficult to figure out how to make it work for people who don’t mind living in terror. >
But if we support terrifying modes, then we have to deal with all of the issues that come fom people having difficulty with terrifying modes. I'm a firm believer in the simple statement that in LilyPond, you type the pitch you hear, and the software is responsible for getting the display correct (strictly speaking, this means that I should oppose relative mode, although I admit I'm inconsistent here). Making up a syntax is easy. Implementing the syntax is harder -- there are lots of corner cases. Supporting difficult syntax is harder stil -- it'a an ongoing expense. That's why I'm so appreciative of David K's work to simplify and rationalize our syntax so it (almost) always works the way one thinks it should. A user could certainly write a music function that would allow the entry of "what you see" instead of "what you hear". And if they did so, it could be added to the LSR. But I would be against adding this to the official LilyPond distribution. Thansk, Carl
