2013/8/19 James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com>: > Phil Holmes <mail <at> philholmes.net> writes: > >> I think a lot of us simply use the Dutch standard of es for a flat and is >> for a sharp - I certainly do. > > I'll be bold and disagree. G-flat is ges in Dutch (3 characters) and gf in > English (2 characters). If you're typesetting a piece in D-flat major, the 33% > redundancy for every black-key note in Dutch will add up quickly. > > I've been dealing with repetitive strain injuries for more than half my life > now, so I have a rather strong aversion toward extra symbols, such as the "s" > in -es and -is, which are identical between flats and sharps and thereby do > nothing to distinguish them. They take up space but don't /do/ anything in > return for the extra finger effort. If I were forced to type them, I would > seek another input method. Fortunately I can just set the language to English > and then enjoy more efficient input.
I think that the best solution would be to have some special keyboard entry mode in Frescobaldi (for example, it could be diatonic and automatically add alterations according to key signature). I was thinking about something like this. Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
