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From: | Daniel Johnson |
Subject: | Re: proposal: second style for quartertone accidentals |
Date: | Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:53:52 -0800 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0b1 (X11/20061219) |
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
Among other things I use Lilypond for, I transcribe Byzantine chant, which, rather than being based on quarter-tones, is based on sixth-tones. (Actually it's based on twelfth-tones, but it's rare to encounter an odd number of twelfths.) The arrow accidentals are perfect for this since a natural with a down-arrow can indicate a lowering by a sixth-tone, while a flat with an up-arrow can indicate a lowering by two sixth-tones, etc.Maximilian Albert escreveu:. So it seems that the use of "Accidental #'style" is deprecated and one should set the alteration-alist directly. (But changing the style property still works in v2.11.13, even if I don't know why, given that I couldn't find the code handling it). What is the reason for this? To me the former notation seems much more intuitive and easy to use.The recent microtone improvements needed a much more flexible way to map pitches onto symbols, and it seems superfluous to have two mechanisms forsetting glyphname at the same time. It would be possible to have a mechanism to set the alist based on the style property, but I thought it would be overkill.
I'd like to be able to translate this accurately into midi output. Is there already a mechanism in place for associating a microtonal relationship with the elements in an alteration-alist, or is this just a pipe dream?
--Daniel
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