On Sunday 30 August 2009, David Bobroff wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:13:56PM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > >> But in this instance, the majority of coders line up in opposition. > >> You have shouted down the users, but convinced none. Why? Because > >> you are wrong. > > > > We don't care. > > We don't have to. > > We're the telephone company. > > > > Cheers, > > - Graham "if you don't recognize it, look it up. It's funny!" Percival > > I've seen this discussion come up before. The coders are not wrong (and > no, I'm not a coder). This is the way LilyPond works. LilyPond is > designed to take the musical content and render it according to > established engraving practice. Musical content includes pitches. If > you enter a 'b' in the key of b-flat LilyPond will produce a 'b' as > LilyPond has no way of knowing what pitch you actually want. That's the > pitch you entered. > > Likewise if you use TeX, or a high-dollar word processor, and you type > "there" the program isn't going to know if you should have typed "their" > or "they're". It will print it very nicely on the page for you but > that's all. YOU supply the information. The program provides the > printed output. It is the user's job to know what information to > supply. This includes the actual pitch names. > > You can either choose to learn that rule or you can write an extension > to make LilyPond do it another way. I rather suspect that the cerebral > overhead required for the latter is rather higher than simply > remembering that you must enter complete information for all pitches.
A sed script to do it was almost trivial, even for me. Regards, daveA -- For beginners: very easy guitar music, solos, duets, exercises. Early intermediate guitar solos. One best scale set for all guitarists. http://www.openguitar.com/scalescomparison.html ::: plus new and better chord and arpeggio exercises. http://www.openguitar.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user