Re: PATCH: Arrowed accidentals for microtone notation

[Graham Breed]

2009/7/27 Mark Polesky <address@hidden>:

> While we're on the topic, please have a look at this:
>
> EXTENDED HELMHOLTZ-ELLIS JI PITCH NOTATION
> http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/pdfs/legend.pdf
> http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/pdfs/HE-font-2009.zip
>
> A composer friend of mine said that a lot of his compositions use
> this particular set of non-standard accidentals and expressed the
> wish for LilyPond to support them. Can we add this to the tracker?
> I imagine that it shouldn't be too difficult to incorporate them,
> seeing what's already been done in this department.

They should work the way I did Sagittal -- by monkey patching
Accidental to use an external font.  No need to change LilyPond, and
you don't want every different microtonal system in the tracker, do
you?

Your friend can contact me if he wants directions.


                 Graham