Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Sunday 30 August 2009, David Bobroff wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:13:56PM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold 
wrote:
> >> But in this instance, the majority of coders line up in opposition.
> >> You have shouted down the users, but convinced none.  Why?  Because
> >> you are wrong.
> > 
> > We don't care.
> > We don't have to.
> > We're the telephone company.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham "if you don't recognize it, look it up.  It's funny!" 
Percival
> 
> I've seen this discussion come up before.  The coders are not wrong 
(and 
> no, I'm not a coder).  This is the way LilyPond works.  LilyPond is 
> designed to take the musical content and render it according to 
> established engraving practice.  Musical content includes pitches.  If 
> you enter a 'b' in the key of b-flat LilyPond will produce a 'b' as 
> LilyPond has no way of knowing what pitch you actually want.  That's 
the 
> pitch you entered.
> 
> Likewise if you use TeX, or a high-dollar word processor, and you type 
> "there" the program isn't going to know if you should have 
typed "their" 
> or "they're".  It will print it very nicely on the page for you but 
> that's all.  YOU supply the information.  The program provides the 
> printed output.  It is the user's job to know what information to 
> supply.  This includes the actual pitch names.
> 
> You can either choose to learn that rule or you can write an extension 
> to make LilyPond do it another way.  I rather suspect that the 
cerebral 
> overhead required for the latter is rather higher than simply 
> remembering that you must enter complete information for all pitches.

A sed script to do it was almost trivial, even for me.  Regards, daveA

-- 
For beginners: very easy guitar music, solos, duets, exercises. Early
intermediate guitar solos. One best scale set for all guitarists.
http://www.openguitar.com/scalescomparison.html ::: plus new and
better chord and arpeggio exercises.  http://www.openguitar.com