Re: New feature suggestion

[Keith OHara]

David Winfrey <dlw <at> patriot.net> writes:

> A new accidental for entering natural notes would be useful.
> 
> In English, this would be 'n', as in 'bn4' or 'gn2'.
> 

This is in the bug tracker as
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4076

It is easy to add an alternate name for a pitch, just like we already
have csharp and cs.  If anyone defined variables names 'an', 'bn', etc.
their files will fail if we treat bn as a note-name, but if they run
convert-ly on their input files those variables can be automatically 
renamed to something like 'renamed_an' etc.

Can anyone think of other downsides to adding 'bn' as a note name ?

Should languages using the moveable-do system, French, Spanish, etc.,
have a similar alternate name for the accidental natural pitches ?