Umm, can we check something here?
1.1.1.3 Accidentals about a third of the way down has ...
"Half-flats and half-sharps are formed by adding
eh and
ih; ..."
... which sounds absoutely crazy to me and should instead read ...
"Quarter-flats and quarter-sharps are formed by adding
eh and
ih; ..."
And I had written another paragraph explaining that I'd seen this "half-flat" (and even more amazingly "sesqui-flat") type of terminology other places in the docs and that it is finally time for that terminology to die and never return.
HOWEVER googling for "half sharp" and "half flat" produces this wiki entry ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_%28music%29
... which includes both terms in the caption towards the bottom of the page.
To me this is an obvious error and I immediately want to know who's behind the wiki article (as is, alas, so frequently the case on wiki).
But can we get a quick show of hands? I've worked with microtonal accidentals for years and have always only heard the symbol standing in front of a c-quarter-flat as a "quarter-flat". And I certainly have never heard either of the terms "half-flat" or "half-sharp" used by anyone, ever, whether a composer, performer, or otherwise. Have I lost my mind? Or is this is a UK thing? Or what?