Re: Issue 694 in lilypond: Enhancement: arrowed heads for microtone accidentals

[lilypond]

Comment #9 on issue 694 by percival.music.ca: Enhancement: arrowed heads  
for microtone accidentals
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=694

What's not clear...
- there's some patch(s), but it's not clear if it applies to current git,  
or is waiting for revision from the author, or waiting for review.
- lilypond already supports arbitrary fractional tones.  Notation 1.1.1  
Non-Western note names and accidentals, in the 2.13 docs.  So what's  
missing?  Just the graphical pointed arrow?
- to reduce confusion from developers and bug squad people, we only  
want "item" per issue.  This one claims to be about documentation, but the  
original reporter (Valentin) didn't know about our  
arbitrary-fraction-microtones, and there's this patch, and now you're  
talking about "code solution first"...

We need somebody who cares about microtonal support (you?) to divide this  
up.
- if anything is wrong with our fundamental support for arbitrary  
fractional microtones, make a minimal bug report and send it to  
bug-lilypond.  The Bug Squad should add a SEPARATE issue for that one.
- if the fundamental definitions of microtones are fine, but you want a  
different display mechanism (which is probably true; the Turkish notation  
doesn't look familiar to me), then make a minimal bug report and send it to  
bug-lilypond.  The bug squad should add a separate issue for that graphical  
enhancement request.
 - if the patch is still good, then send it to lilypond-devel, and if  
nobody replies, the patch manager will add a separate issue blah blah.
- if there's anything else, then send a separate minimal bug report, and  
blah blah.

Finally, close this issue because it's way too confusing for me.  Yes, I  
may be an idiot, but given that it's an old issue and nobody else has  
looked into it, I think you need to deal with the idiot.  I know this makes  
extra administrative work (maybe 30 minutes in total?) for people who care  
about microtonal stuff, but IMHO that's the best chance to move forward  
with this.