Re: an innocent's query :)

[James E. Bailey]

Am 14.06.2008 um 10:21 schrieb Bill Mooney:

> Greetings All,
> I am a newcomer to the list, and to Lilypond. Notwithstanding this I  
> am finding LP very satisfying to use and am currently setting some  
> hand-notation music for a friend - from which activity rises my query.
> Would it be worthwhile to consider changing the way LP 'reads' its  
> input files to allow the use of UpperCase letters for the notes?
> It seems to me, in my innocence, that this would allow, amongst  
> other things,  a change to the way sharps/flats etc are dealt with  
> ( eg Aa = A-sharp, aA = A-flat, and other one-key-strokes for  
> quarter-tones, etc, etc... ), and might lead to dropping the need  
> for the various 'language' include files. It would also make global  
> replacements of one particular note very easy (if perhaps in  
> notating handwritten score by someone who is not very accurate in  
> their note placement! ).
> Regards
> Bill
>
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Technically, you could do this yourself. Granted, it would still  
involve an \include file, but I just made some minor modifications to  
the deutsch.ly file and it worked perfectly

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