Re: \harmonic on note outside chord.

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > try doing \displayMusic on both
> >
> >   <c-.>
> >
> > and
> >
> >   <c>-.
> >
> > As you can see, in the latter case, the articulation is not attached 
> > to the note, and it would be difficult to attach the right symbol 
> > (articulation, fingering, etc.) to the right note head.


> As far as I can see, your argument is that LilyPond handles c-. exactly the
> same as <c>-.  which in turn should imply that c\1 would be the same as
> <c>\1 (which does not make sense since you cannot attach a single 
> fingering to a
> full chord).

No, my argument is that they're handled differently. It's 
Fingering_engraver vs.  New_fingering_engrvaer

> I realize that the parser might get slightly more complex, but that's 
> the job of the
> parser, right? To convert something that's intuitive for the user into a 
> representation
> that is convenient for the computer.

No, that's not the job of  the parser. The parser translates an ASCII 
representation of a  music tree into a computer representation of the 
same tree.

If you want to translate c-. to <c-.> , then you can write a music 
function to do so.  We could even add it to the functions which are 
called by default. I'm not altogether sure it's a good idea, though.

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