On Wed 13 September 2006 14:42, Markus Schneider wrote: > Hi Karen, > > > appears without an accidental sign before it. That's OK for notes > > needing accidentals, but in keys with 2 or more sharps or flats it's a > > lot more > > typing!! > > if you want to save typing, you can always use your text editor's search > and replace after you put in all your notes. Maybe even create a macro for > different keys...
Or use the lyqi mode in emacs. It will remember the previous version of a scale step, so you only have to change b to bes once, and the interface will remember it the next time you press the "b" key. It's a wonderful tool: the principle is that if nothing else is specified, a new input will take over whatever previous values you have entered: if the previous note was a "4" the next will be, if you have lowered b to bes before, the next "b" will become "bes" etc. For the input, you 'play' the notes as if it was on a real keyboard, and most things are one or two key presses. I have the notes in the scale mapped to asdfwer=cdefgab and the rhythms to h=whole, j=half, k=quarter, l=eighth, Flat=c, sharp=v, etc. It's not the default layout, but a touch-typist one - I can write whole pieces without even looking at what i'm doing (because there is sounding feedback too). So the first time I want to enter a b flat half note, I press "rcj", the next time "r" is enough. It's the only reason I use emacs, but it's a good one. And it's the only thing I use emacs for... Can someone please port it to vim...? :-) Eyolf -- But you'll notice Perl has a goto. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user