Re: Using LilyPond with Arabic music

[josephHarfouch]

Hi Graham and everyone, 

Thanks. When I get the chance, I'll spend some time getting familiar with
your documentation process and texinfo which I haven't used before. I'll let
you know if I have any questions. 

There has been some really good feedback. Thanks for everyone. It seems that
I've got it wrong that LilyPond does not support Arabic Lyrics. I might drop
out that section for now as it is not crucial. As I say in the document,
using Arabic Lyrics is problematic even when it is possible to write them.
Alternatively, I might update the section if I can get it working. Currently
I don't have Arabic fonts on my computer. I also would like to test the bug
with midi. Again, I don't think it is crucial to the topic of Arabic music,
but I may need to document it, or find a way how to get around it. Regarding
Hans' comment, the document explains how Arabic music is traditionally
notated which uses a 24 note system, although that might not completely
reflect how the music is played, so the issue of alternative tone systems is
a separate issue. 

Thanks

Joseph  

Graham Percival-2 wrote:
> 
> Joseph, please see the GDP website:
> http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/
> 
> Your file is: world.itely, and the section is Arabic music.  It
> should show up on the GDP output in half an hour or so.  Please
> read all the "getting started" docs.  You may also want to look at
> chords.itely, which is an almost-finished NR 2 section.  Pay
> particular attention to the "References for XYZ" sections.
> 
> Since you're already familiar with LaTeX, picking up texinfo
> shouldn't be hard.  If you encounter any trouble, don't hesitate
> to email me.
> 
> 
> One more point:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:38:16 +0100
> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> If the example is copied from the pdf the fancy
>> quote sign on the two re's has to be replaced
>> with a straight apostrophe.
> 
> That's not a problem in our docs.  To see how to avoid this
> problem in your stand-alone paper, look at texinfo.tex in
> Documentation/user/.  It's there somewhere.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham
> 
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