Re: Supporting ♯ and ♭

[Hans Aberg]

> On 7 Oct 2014, at 01:12, MarcM <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hans Aberg-2 wrote

>>> 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?

I didn’t try to add it myself, and I do not know why it was not added - perhaps 
no strong interest.