Re: Another English notename issue

[tisimst]

+1

I have NEVER used the the long-hand names in English, so re-ordering to put cs 
before csharp, etc., IMO, is a wonderful idea!

-Abraham

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> On Dec 1, 2014, at 4:55 AM, David Kastrup [via Lilypond] <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Apart from the onraging discussion and/or non-discussion on bn for b 
> natural on issue 4076 
> <URL:https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4076>, I found 
> another thing that I find dissatisfactory, namely the default _output_ 
> of music expressions.  We have for 
> 
> \language "english" 
> 
> \displayLilyMusic \transpose c cs { c d e f g a b } 
> 
> the output 
> 
> lilypond /tmp/ugh.ly 
> GNU LilyPond 2.19.16 
> Processing `/tmp/ugh.ly' 
> Parsing... 
> { 
>   csharp dsharp esharp fsharp gsharp asharp bsharp 
> } 
> 
> I am not convinced that the verbose english style is desirable here, in 
> particular since we have for 
> 
> \language "english" 
> 
> \displayLilyMusic \transpose c cqs { c d e f g a b } 
> 
> the output 
> 
> GNU LilyPond 2.19.16 
> Processing `/tmp/ugh.ly' 
> Parsing... 
> { 
>   cqs dqs eqs fqs gqs aqs bqs 
> } 
> 
> Now one could state that this should be cured by giving verbose names to 
> quarter accidentals as well, but I think that this will lead to music 
> that more often than not reads other than one would type it. 
> 
> So I think we should likely reorder the English notename language such 
> that the default output is the abbreviated form.  Thoughts? 
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup 
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