Re: Pitch/ octave notation

[Erik Sandberg]

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:25, Mads Sejersen wrote:
> 2006/11/14, Erik Sandberg <address@hidden>:
> > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 16:50, Peter O'Doherty wrote:
> > If you really need this, I'd recommend you to use sed or similar tool as
> > a preprocessing step for your score. It should be fairly easy to
> > lexically replace c4 with c', c5 with c'', etc. It will probably be
> > confusing though, because you'll have to write c48 to indicate an eight
> > note of pitch c', etc,
>
> Then he could use 4c8 instead, or does lilypond have any special
> meaning for prepended digits?

hm, then maybe 8c4 is an even better choice ("8th of pitch c4"). I guessed 
that the request for c4 syntax for pitches is related to some musicological 
convention where c4 is the actual pitch name.

-- 
Erik