Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

[Torsten Anders]

Dear Kees,

On 07.09.2009, at 21:10, Kees van den Doel wrote:
> Not sure if it will help you, but you can look at my solution for  
> microtonal notation in this package: http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~kvdoel/tmp/persian.zip

Thank you for sharing this example. If I am not mistaken, you used the  
maqam example of the Lilypond  documentation as a starting point for  
this. The advantage is that introducing new note names for each pitch  
nominal and accidental combination makes the score is rather concise  
(however, you first have to define all those combinations and with a  
large number of accidentals as in the case of something like the  
Helmholtz-Ellis notation -- or Saggital notation for that matter --  
you get very very many note names).

I previously thought that the approach you are using is limited to  
signs from the Feta font, but you obviously managed to use other fonts  
as well, great! I will keep a mental note of that :)

Nevertheless, I don't see how with this approach you can have  
accidentals that consist of multiple signs. In order to make this  
point more clear I attached a version of the previous example  
transposed down by a septimal comma.

The accidentals for the chord get very cluttered in this example. Is  
it somehow possible to adapt the collision-avoidance code of  
accidentals to take the whole "area" of the accidental markups into  
account? I would rather prefer the output takes too much space than it  
is unreadable like this. For example, it would be great if accidental  
combinations would horizontally follow each other: first all  
accidentals for this note, then for that etc.

Thank you!

Best
Torsten

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