Re: es means ees???

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 11:04 +0900, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 01:41:30PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> > Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Here, instead of ees, is written es.
> > 
> > I read
> > 
> >     In Dutch, aes is contracted to as, but both forms are accepted in
> >     LilyPond. Similarly, both es and ees are accepted. This also applies
> >     to aeses / ases and eeses / eses. Sometimes only these contracted
> >     names are defined in the corresponding language files.
> 
> Yes.  In case anybody was wondering, I deliberately moved the "as"
> and "es" contractions from the tutorial into the NR ages ago.  For
> people unfamiliar with that notation, it's easier to remember
> "letter name plus -es or -is" rather than introducing all the
> contractions.

That was a good idea I think. What is unfortunate is that the default
includes these contractions, with hindsight it might have been better to
have the default be the simplest set of names with those that wanted to
use the contractions including a language specific file (e.g.
nederlands). But this is a very minor thing, perhaps as a matter of
style the ly directory code should avoid the contractions?
This has a connection with the other thread about using the sharp and
flat symbols - they should be in a language neutral file.

Richard