About those upside-down pitch lists :-)

Monz and Paul and others,

I think this business of listing pitches in decreasing order is a pain in
the Anomalous Saturated Suspension. This is the opposite of how Scala does
it, and makes it impossible to copy and paste it to become a Scala file.
One must tediously edit it to reverse the order.

Both mathematicians and musicians _plot_ or _diagram_ an increase in a
quantity _up_ the page. But when a list of increasing quantities forms part
of a _text_, mathematicians list an increase _down_ the page because that
is the direction in which text is read. I don't think that most musicians
have a problem with this either.

Regards,
-- Dave Keenan
Brisbane, Australia
http://dkeenan.com

--- In tuning@y..., David C Keenan <D.KEENAN@U...> wrote:

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> Monz and Paul and others,
>
> I think this business of listing pitches in decreasing order
> is a pain in the Anomalous Saturated Suspension.

:) Good one.

> This is the opposite of how Scala does it, and makes it
> impossible to copy and paste it to become a Scala file.
> One must tediously edit it to reverse the order.

Yes, I've known this all along. I suppose that maybe because
I use Excel a lot more than Scala to do my tuning calculations
I still prefer the pitches listed top-down.

Maybe Manuel can make an easy adjustment to Scala so that
it can read the list either way?

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"