Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-31 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op woensdag 17-12-2008 om 09:52 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Werner LEMBERG: > Hmm. I don't know either. Maybe a question for emacs-devel? Yep, turned out to be an Emacs bug. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-12/msg00877.html Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond -

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-19 Thread demery
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008, Graham Breed said: > 2008/12/19 Hans Aberg : Maybe there's a distinction between a "keyboard map" and "input method" here. definately. Keyboard maps eat multiple keystrokes in a declared sequence intending to emit the encoding of one glyph; all done transparently as you

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-19 Thread Hans Aberg
On 19 Dec 2008, at 04:49, Graham Breed wrote: Keyboard maps can demand certain key stroke combinations for output, and can output a sequence of characters, I would think, because otherwise some Unicode combining character combinations might not be possible. So it might be possible to captur

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Graham Breed
2008/12/19 Hans Aberg : > Keyboard maps can demand certain key stroke combinations for output, and can > output a sequence of characters, I would think, because otherwise some > Unicode combining character combinations might not be possible. So it might > be possible to capture keywords - I do not

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Graham Breed
2008/12/19 Johannes Schindelin : > Hi, > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Hans Aberg wrote: >> Right. On Mac OS X, just use or whatever you set it to >> change key map. > > Right, let's make things complicated. > > No, but thanks, no, So how do you switch to Chinese input? Graha

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Hans Aberg wrote: > On 18 Dec 2008, at 22:28, wrote: > > > >Right. So the best one can hope for is a series of keyboard maps that > > >perhaps unify groups of characters, that those that so like may use. > > > >The issue is to create a UTF-8 text file with linguistic co

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Dec 2008, at 22:28, wrote: Right. So the best one can hope for is a series of keyboard maps that perhaps unify groups of characters, that those that so like may use. The issue is to create a UTF-8 text file with linguistic content from several writing scripts, right? Choose an OS and a

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread demery
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008, Hans Aberg said: > On 18 Dec 2008, at 20:40, wrote: >> Unicode is a good solution for recording the result internally > Right. So the best one can hope for is a series of keyboard maps that > perhaps unify groups of characters, that those that so like may use. The issu

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Dec 2008, at 20:54, Laura Conrad wrote: Hans> If you want to fit all the world languages into one keyboard map, I don't. My point was that unless you do, a lilypond-specific keyboard map isn't going to be usable for people who transcribe vocal music for all the world languages.

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Dec 2008, at 20:40, wrote: If you want to fit all the world languages into one keyboard map, you might join the Unicode list; there are more than 10 characters available. Unicode is a good solution for recording the result internally, but as far as I know keyboard layout is still

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Hans" == Hans Aberg writes: Hans> On 18 Dec 2008, at 16:53, Laura Conrad wrote: Hans> Perhaps LilyPond users should agree on one keyboard layout - Hans> it takes some effort to do. >> >> This is the kind of suggestion that would only be made by a music >> software

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread demery
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008, Hans Aberg said: > If you want to fit all the world languages into one keyboard map, you > might join the Unicode list; there are more than 10 characters > available. Unicode is a good solution for recording the result internally, but as far as I know keyboard layou

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Dec 2008, at 16:53, Laura Conrad wrote: Hans> Perhaps LilyPond users should agree on one keyboard layout - Hans> it takes some effort to do. This is the kind of suggestion that would only be made by a music software person who had never worked with vocal music. If you want to fit

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Hans" == Hans Aberg writes: Hans> Perhaps LilyPond users should agree on one keyboard layout - Hans> it takes some effort to do. This is the kind of suggestion that would only be made by a music software person who had never worked with vocal music. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@l

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Dec 2008, at 10:11, Mark Polesky wrote: You might call for using Unicode: r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e g♯) This doesn't save keystrokes, though, does it? Can a user get ♯ with a single key? Yes, with the right key map (keyboard layout), but I think you will have to

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> By the way, if both english.ly and deutsch.ly incorporated the utf-8 > idea, German would win the minimal-size contest thanks to the b/h > quirk of that language. Note that it is quite unusual in German to write `g#'; we almost always use `gis'. The same for the flat accidental. Werner

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Polesky
Hans Aberg wrote: > You might call for using Unicode: > r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e g♯) This doesn't save keystrokes, though, does it? Can a user get ♯ with a single key? I think english.ly is still finest, the only possible improvement would be to find a single key for the

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I installed unifont and that fixed it for GEdit, but in emacs it > even removed sharp and flat to display little boxes. > > Then I installed emacs-snapshot (with xft backend), sharp and flat > are back, but none from the music block starting at 0x1d12a shows. Hmm. I don't know either. Maybe

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-17 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/12/17 Bertalan Fodor : > Once a French conductor sang the melody "a a gis a g fis g" with the words > "la la sol la sol fa sol". It was very funny. Then you could die of laughing if you come to any of the orchestras, music schools or conservatoires in Spain... -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (S

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-17 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 22:27 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Werner LEMBERG: > > although (with read-quoted-char-radix=16) C-Q 1d12a RET does not > > give me a double sharp? > > What do you mean? A wrong code point or a missing glyph? Actually I have no idea how emacs juggles fonts. I installed

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I would have beaten the the world record of the 100m escaping out of the music school if I would have had to say "double bémol sol". Nevertheless it is a matter of vocal cords, I still sing "sol" and not "fa"... Once a French conductor sang the melody "a a gis a g fis g" with the words "la

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Mark Polesky wrote: > > Why is Dutch the default language for note-entry? English uses the > > fewest keystrokes. For comparison, here's a measure from Chopin's > > Fantasie-impromptu: > > because we are Dutch

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 16.12.2008 17:20, Carl D. Sorensen disait : On 12/16/08 8:58 AM, "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" wrote: Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 15:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: On 16 Dec 2008, at 14:48, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: You might call for using Unicode: r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Mark Polesky wrote: > Why is Dutch the default language for note-entry? > English uses the fewest keystrokes. For comparison, > here's a measure from Chopin's Fantasie-impromptu: because we are Dutch, and because we think the Dutch are better in general: you can a

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Carl, I think that, even though accidentals come before the note in musical output, in the text stream g# is much more readable than #g. Agreed — at least in English, one says (i.e., reads) "g sharp" not "sharp g". Best, Kieren. ___ lilypond-

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/16/08 8:58 AM, "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" wrote: > Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 15:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: >> On 16 Dec 2008, at 14:48, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> You might call for using Unicode: r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e g♯) You

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
But then why not use a font like this: http://www.icogitate.com/~ergosum/fonts/musicfonts.htm Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 15:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: On 16 Dec 2008, at 14:48, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: You might call for using Unicode: r16

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 15:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: > On 16 Dec 2008, at 14:48, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > >> You might call for using Unicode: > >> r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e > >> g♯) > >> > >> You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too.

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 05:58 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Graham Percival: > Could this be an independant language? I don't see why it's > stuffed into ly/nederlands.ly (other than this being the default). > Could it be ly/utf8.ly instead? So it should be, left as an excercise to I-won-t-say-

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
No it, can't be. Think of Bb H in german etc. Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:48:43PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 13:07 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too. Now that

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Dec 2008, at 14:48, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: You might call for using Unicode: r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e g♯) You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too. Now that's a fun idea. It even works! Thank you. I think it increases readability, too. Han

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Dec 2008, at 15:06, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Well, I then suggest to be consequent, using the following Unicode characters instead of ♯♯ and ♭♭: U+1D12A MUSICAL SYMBOL DOUBLE SHARP U+1D12B MUSICAL SYMBOL DOUBLE FLAT Sure, only that both should possible to use, in Western music notat

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > On 16 Dec 2008, at 05:58, Mark Polesky wrote: > > > You might call for using Unicode: > > r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e > > g♯) > > > > You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too. > > Now that's a fun idea. It even works! Well, I then suggest to be cons

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:48:43PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 13:07 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: > > You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too. > > Now that's a fun idea. It even works! Could this be an independant language? I don't

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 13:07 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: > On 16 Dec 2008, at 05:58, Mark Polesky wrote: > You might call for using Unicode: > r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e > g♯) > > You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too. Now that's a fun

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Dec 2008, at 05:58, Mark Polesky wrote: English uses the fewest keystrokes. Computer languages no more attempt to minimize the number of keystrokes, as code tends to be unreadable. For comparison, here's a measure from Chopin's Fantasie-impromptu: English: r16 gs( a gs fss gs cs e

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-15 Thread David Bobroff
Mark Polesky wrote: Why is Dutch the default language for note-entry? Because the originators of LilyPond are Dutch. -David English uses the fewest keystrokes. For comparison, here's a measure from Chopin's Fantasie-impromptu: English: r16 gs( a gs fss gs cs e ds cs ds cs bs cs e gs) Du