Re: A basic question of Lilypond

[Dan Eble]

On Dec 22, 2020, at 02:57, wyanshan <wyanshan@163.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Jonas Hahnfeld very much!
> I am very happy you advertise Fescobaldi to me, I will study it, because 
> that’s what I need. But I am from China,
> In China, we use 『1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1』 instead of stave (fine lines), please see 
> the snapshot below (snapshot with red English on top).
> In lilypond website, I see one popular music example (snapshot  with red 
> arrow) which comes with chords, this tells me Lilypond can do a
> Lot of thing including guitar music such as the first snapshot (with red 
> English on top), though I do not know a lot with programming and software 
> development.
> My final target is I can design an app like Frescobaldi but with Chinese 
> Jianpu input method in editors.

Using Arabic numerals for pitches in LilyPond seems like a world of pain, but I 
wonder whether a set of pitch names using Chinese characters would be a useful 
substitute.
— 
Dan