Re: Certain accidentals

[Brian Barker]

At 15:48 18/04/2014 +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> Am 18.04.2014 15:38, schrieb Brian Barker:
> > No - certainly not (though I know people who do!).  You are quite 
> > right not to believe I could be that foolish.  But there is still a 
> > difference in the representations: in musical notation, a note on 
> > the F line after a key signature of G major represents an F#; in 
> > Lilypond notation, an F after \key g\major represents F natural.
>
> This is because the score is already a graphical representation.

No - that surely makes no difference?  Both musical notation and 
Lilypond notation *could* work the other way around - if anyone were 
to prefer this.  (Note that I've expressed no such preference!)

> ... in Amadeus you'll write the pitch you _see_ and not the one you hear.
> I also would not ever want to change LilyPond's behaviour in that 
> respect, but I write this to show that there _are_ people (who have 
> to be taken seriously) who would consider the other approach superior.

Exactly (but I'm still fence-sitting).

Brian Barker