On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 12:54 PM Fr. Samuel Springuel <rpspring...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just discovered that in English, there’s a shorter way to name notes > that would normally be specified with “-sharp” or “-flat”: “s” and “f”. > E.g. “f-sharp” can be written as “fs” and “b-flat” can be written as “bf”. > > However, I noticed that this is not documented in the Music Glossary: > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/music-glossary/pitch-names. > Only the “-sharp” and “-flat” name are mentioned there. Is there a reason > this behavior is not documented? It is certainly much easier to type the > shorter name than the longer one but I don’t want to rely on something that > might break unexpectedly. > > The place to look for this information is in the Notation Reference, not the music glossary. https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/writing-pitches#note-names-in-other-languages At the bottom of that page there is a list of all the alteration suffixes in all the languages. HTH, Carl
