Re: Persian accidentals

[Graham Breed]

Hans Aberg wrote:
> On 1 Feb 2009, at 13:07, Graham Breed wrote:
>
> > You can use any glyph, or string of glyphs, you have in a font.  I
> > haven't seen a mention here of such a font being available.
>
> Didn't you work with MicroABC? A quick search gave this page
>   http://anamnese.online.fr/site2/index.php?page=abc_perse
> (Click on the "English version" button to see the text.)

I've done a bit with it.  That link isn't MicroABC, it's a 
different tool for use with abcm2ps.  But it'll likely be 
compatible with Lilypond as both use PostScript.

> I think that koron and sori may not be in Unicode, which LilyPond uses 
> for fonts. So some special implementation might be needed.

There'll be a code point in the font file.  You can get it 
using FontForge (which I had to use for Sagittal because the 
Unicode mapping is wrong for some reason I may have been 
told about but forgot).  Another thing Hudson Lacerda (the 
author of MicroABC) told me is that you can get PostScript 
code for a glyph from FontForge.  That might be useful as 
some of the hacks in this thread have involved coding 
PostScript directly.

If you're designing a Unicode font there's a private use 
area for characters without an official code point.


                     Graham