Re: Towards a new pitch representation

[Carl Sorensen]

On 12/30/10 2:07 PM, "Felipe Gonçalves Assis" <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Issue 1278 (http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1278)
> clarified that, in order to support some microtonal notations, LilyPond
> needs to use a different pitch representation.
> 
> I am willing to make that happen. Of course, this will require some
> contribution from more experienced developers. That being said,
> this contribution needs to be no more than objective discussions
> about well-defined questions and, at the end, a patch review.

Hi, Felipe.

I've looked at your patch, but I'm having a bit of trouble seeing how the
patch resolves the issues that are identified in issue 1278.

I must admit that i've not yet fully understood Hans's emails on issue 1278.

How do your new two-element alterations improve the situation?

> 
> Could you, please, help me with that?
> 
> This thread is for such discussions. I intend to address issues
> sequentially and generally in a top-down direction.
> 
> A useful reference will be the experimental patch I just posted
> on Rietveld: http://codereview.appspot.com/3789044/
> 
> Please try it, and take a look at it if possible, but do not start
> commenting the code before we agree on the fundamentals.
> We might end up with a quite different version of that.
> 

It would be very helpful for me to discuss this patch if you had a test file
that shows how the new features are used.

It would be even better if there were a test file that compiled but didn't
behave properly in 2.13.44, and then a corresponding file that does behave
properly in your patch.

Thanks,

Carl