Hi Torsten,

You are correct, there is no distinction between these two notes, because in 
terms of pitch they are the same. I realize that my approach to music is 
non-standard, and when I made it I was not thinking about how that would play 
into formatting documents with it. I follow the same idea for intervals too.

I suppose you are asking me these questions because lilypad does differentiate 
between these different ways of saying the same note or interval? Could you 
give me some use cases where my notation would cause problems - I'd like to 
know for the future.

Personally I don't mind which it chooses, say D# or Eb, based on Aarons 
original function:

#(define (: n)
(apply
ly:make-pitch
(cons (1- (floor (/ n 12)))
(list-ref `((0 0) (0 ,SHARP) (1 0) (1 ,SHARP)
(2 0) (3 0) (3 ,SHARP) (4 0)
(4 ,SHARP) (5 0) (5 ,SHARP) (6 0))
(modulo n 12)))))

But having a way to over-ride it's value to be one or the other would be nice. 
As I am new to Scheme I don't know exactly how to do it, but my idea would be 
to have the following behavior.

Always choose the sharp version unless an optional argument is provided to the 
function which tells it to choose the flattened version. If someone could 
outline how I could implement that with Scheme, it would be awesome.

Best,
Callum

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 2:05 PM, <torsten.haemme...@web.de> wrote:

> Hi Callum,
>
> In the first place, I don’t understand how your numeric code could ever 
> handle accidentals correctly.
>
> Looking into your PDF document, I can’t see any distinction between D# and 
> Eb, for instance.
>
> And your table states: 9 “Minor sixth”. But how would you code an augmented 
> fifth, then?
>
> Etc.
>
> All the best
>
> Torsten
>
> Von: lilypond-user <lilypond-user-bounces+torsten.haemmerle=web...@gnu.org> 
> Im Auftrag von Callum Cassidy-Nolan
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 31. März 2021 02:31
> An: lilypond-user@gnu.org
> Betreff: Custom Format
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have just become aware of lilypond.
>
> I would love to use it, but I have a particular way I interact with music.
>
> Particularly I don't use letter names, but instead I use numbers, to 
> understand what I mean, please take a look at my document: 
> https://gitlab.com/cuppajoeman/music/-/blob/master/diagrams/standard_to_semitones.pdf
>
> I just saw a basic example in the documentation, something like this:
>
> \version "2.22.0"
>
> {
>
> c' e' g' e'
>
> }
>
> In my system I would write something like this:
>
> \version "2.22.0"
>
> {
>
> 0' 4' 7' 4'
>
> }
>
> I am assuming some sort of parsing could be done to my files to convert it 
> into the correct format, and then could be parsed by lilypond. Could anyone 
> let me know how I could do something like this?
>
> Thanks in advance,

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