Re: Supporting ♯ and ♭

[MarcM]

Hans Aberg-2 wrote
>> On 6 Oct 2014, at 15:49, MarcM <

> marc@

> > wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> In an effort to make lilypond syntax easier for people to adopt, i'd love
>> to
>> see lilypond support the ♯ and ♭alterations Unicode symbols. 
>> 
>> I know using '#' would not work due to conflict with scheme but what
>> about
>> using the Unicode symbols?
> 
> It works, in fact I have already done that [1] (after downloading the
> files, change the names to what is listed on the page), but it has not
> been integrated into LilyPond.
> 
> LilyPond does not have operators: ♯ and ♭ are a part of note names. When
> having microtonal accidentals, there becomes too may names to write them
> all out. But it is possible to add more languages, would LilyPond get
> that.
> 
> 1. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2011-11/msg00420.html

Great minds think alike. I notice your post is from 2011, was there an issue
adding it to lilypond?



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