Hello everybody, after having spent months (if not years) wondering "why the hell has it to be the way it is?", today it's finally time for me to ask here if anyone knows any logical answer to the following question:
The most basic syntax, in LilyPond, is: notename/accidental/octave/duration, right? ==> example: fis''2 So, if I understand correctly, all accidental-related stuff comes right after the note, but *before* the octave indication. Then why, when you want to add a cautionary accidental, do you have to put: notename/accidental/octave/cautionary/duration ==> fis''!2 instead of notename/accidental/cautionary/octave/duration ==> fis!''2 and why has the later to cause the compilation to crash? Some of you might answer that since cautionary accidentals are not mandatory, it makes sense to put them afterwards, like one would do with expressive marks (wrong example: expressive marks come after the duration; the cautionaries are the *only* stuff which have to come between the octave and the duration). But you have to admit that it makes sense to put all accidental-related stuff together, such as fis!''2 (it's so natural to me that every time I write cautionaries, that means in every bar, I use this syntax, launch the compilation, and have to tell me "oh, right, I forgot"... before correcting it). I'm not asking to change the whole LilyPond syntax of course; but is it unreasonable to ask if LilyPond could accept cautionaries before *and* after the octave indication? Or at least, ignore it and go on with the compilation? It wouldn't break anything, and it would make the syntax much more flexible and tolerant. It already is, in many ways: spaces-insensitiveness, ties notation where you can put the tildes wherever you want, bar checks when you want, and many cool features. Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
