Re: sharping naturals

[J Martin Rushton]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Perhaps your approach is causing you problems?  I tend to think of
Lilypond in the same way that I would regard other markup scripts:
LaTeX, DSR, Postscript and HTML come to mind.  They are not
programming languages like C or FORTRAN, and to expect them to have
the same functionality is unfair.  You are not "coding", you are
performing "data preparation" for someone else's code to work on.

I will accept that interpreted languages do blur the data/code
relationship somewhat, but even comparing Lilypond to Python you can
see radical differences in emphasis.

Just my 2d worth!

On 24/07/15 23:18, Brother Gabriel-Marie wrote:
> Mr. Schmaus,
> 
> My problem was a coding issue, not a musical issue. I wanted a
> coding solution to save keystrokes but everyone wanted to talk
> music theory. So I thought I would ask here where everyone knows
> both. In the end, I've learned that there's no easy coding solution
> and that I'm going to have to sharp all the naturals myself in the
> code.  I am used to programming languages where you can wrap a
> string in a custom function and have it do that for you; moving
> from regular programming languages to a layout code like this
> requires one to think differently.
> 
> I apologize if I have bothered you in any way. You are welcome to
> ignore my messages.
> 
> 
> On 7/24/2015 2:47 AM, Robert Schmaus wrote:
>> Seriously? You've asked the exact same thing on stack exchange!
>> Did you actually ignore all the helpful comments from users
>> there? A couple of days ago, you complained on this list how SE
>> users give you a hard time - like suggesting to get a at least
>> rudimentary understanding of musical notation before writing
>> music. So, here's how you get rid of your accitentals: Just pray
>> them away.
>> 
>> ______
>> 
>> Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. --
>> /Flannery O'Connor/
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user
> mailing list address@hidden 
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
> 
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)

iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVsr8RAAoJEAF3yXsqtyBlbwQP/izxzNxcTJ9fa+QeR5z4o589
V+lkPYz8fvcDKU5jrxHpyDyn4trysAKATdnp+EFJGhJKXJyKdN7RA+5619FPoWBd
aSYNkA+kcuJvKlBxu0y22q+7f9RO3gIN4bmAMx1SaU0ehi20ZtLCFHtzv2MN1+pI
lDTFOI/JVzwqdOw9jW3zL9g7GaJSnJi9MSbfVZ715LhDiEODKOA+KNmVRHajm1M+
aPHkPwFXLANC0L0MsO/lLK/u5VMmwihTPk/RPQnSLjbuz5Et3Kzhk86HpifhVf8C
Hf5vPyJvq48nhvgdgvJEpNGarHyyHVKNVHHl2wk30HigrElNepmjX5msv8jP+mnY
cUiyGtcSOG7DNn1nGcjxd5RKlV84oPKMXc+aDg1u2gDQ0Uci7gd2UwQck4EPbhgH
SOTpYt3GyvPfalioAP5INUIuq68zkGWU0tzDMGZNjT2lO7gcdnmYgOFCmgqfpPSX
DNwtMpgiXjwSRl68veKIGNGvmGbXSiT6ksWs+UCdzj25++kDeUo3FipU9cUGxGb5
NP3clrhvDAvIH7R7U6HF32p99aNmS5HMaW4M+VoJVSX9BzRrk7BiYsr+YzOtNhXd
N0nPzgfl9Kp7LmwpQLgiZ0hZLyWc3n9SbIwkW7xWtevYgwqxOY7MyVbnO8S7g9Uy
rj1wqI8OtxoLG5FuIg/E
=QtNF
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----