Re: Fis or not fis, that is the question.

[Rune Zedeler]

Ralph Little wrote:

> HEEEYYY! COOL DOWN Mister!

Uh, oh, sorry. My bad.

> No, that is incorrect. It would be correct it you had to handle accidental
> policy in the notation specified, but you don't. All I am suggesting is that
> where the key signature gives a default, that default should be applied
> across the board apart from notes that you specify differently.

Well, this is perhaps not as simple as it sounds. Take a look at:

 { \key d \major \transpose d' { .. MUSIC HERE .. } }

should the music be entered assuming c \major, d \major or e \major?

> \score {
>         \key cis \major
>         \notes {cis dis eis fis gis ais bis cis}
> }
> Que?

In cases like this I usually do

\score {
  \notes \transpose cis' {
    \key c \major
    { c d e f g a b c }
  }
}

(take a look at input/mutopia/R.Schumann/romanze-op28-2.ly )

I don't think that there is much point in continuing this discussion. -
Actually implementing some keysig-relative input should be quite easy -
but I feel very sure that the result would be loads of newbie mails
about transposing commands that behaved differently from expected.

Personally I would also feel annoyed about the key signature being
attached to the music (so that I could not typeset an already entered
piece in i.e. the schoenberg-accidentals resently suggested by
Matthias).

-Rune