I just discovered that in English, there’s a shorter way to name notes that would normally be specified with “-sharp” or “-flat”: “s” and “f”. E.g. “f-sharp” can be written as “fs” and “b-flat” can be written as “bf”.
However, I noticed that this is not documented in the Music Glossary: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/music-glossary/pitch-names. Only the “-sharp” and “-flat” name are mentioned there. Is there a reason this behavior is not documented? It is certainly much easier to type the shorter name than the longer one but I don’t want to rely on something that might break unexpectedly.
The place to look for this information is in the Notation Reference, not the music glossary.
At the bottom of that page there is a list of all the alteration suffixes in all the languages.
HTH,
Carl