Re: new to lilypond

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:46 AM

> Uh, no?  df is an abbreviation, but des is a proper pronouncable name
> (if you are Dutch/German, that's the name you use when talking about
> music).  As such, it has a letter combination that is natural to scan.

... even for non-German, non-Dutch speakers.  When I started using
LilyPond some years ago I always used the English encodings, xf and xs,
but now I invariably use the default, xes and xis, when transcribing.
I think that's because they are so much easier to vocalise internally,
making it easier to remember a musical phrase between reading and
typing.

Trevor