Re: Lilypond Right to Left

[Patrick McCarty]

2009/2/22 Fr. Michael Gilmary <address@hidden>:
>
>> 2009/2/20 Fr. Michael Gilmary <address@hidden>:
>>
>>>
>>> Is there any development in Lilypond for typesetting the music and lyrics
>>> from
>>> right to left? We would use it for setting some Syriac hymns.
>>>
>
>> Valentin Villenave wrote:
>> Surprisingly enough, it is not (yet) supported. You can, however,
>> print text from right to left in a markup object, as demonstrated at
>> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=555
>>
>> If you can provide us with some short examples of such scores, I'll
>> add this as a feature request.
>>
>
> Hi Valentin:
>
> I use XeLaTeX (TL2008) with Lilypond (2.11.62) to set Syriac
> *transliteration* on Mac OS 10.4.11. For the Syriac non-music the fontspec
>  package with XeLaTeX nicely scripts the Syriac.
>
> I have the attached the .ly file for the Our Father in Syriac with the
> English transliteration. If you'd like to work with the Syriac glyphs, I've
> got them in a separate (.ly) file. The Syriac font(s) can be obtained free
> from www.bethMardutho.org (or .com?) and are called "melthofonts". You can
> ignore the website warning that they won't work with Mac OS X, since they
> work fine. The problem is that there is no native Mac keyboard for Syriac
> and no (Mac) program scripts it correctly ... except Mellel --- a trial
> version is free. If you're on a Mac, I can send you the Mac keyboard I've
> used which is based on two different ones: one developed by Steve Caruso (
> www.aramaicnt.org --- I think) and another fellow whose name I forgot.
>
> If you're using Windows, their Syriac keyboard works fine and everything
> scripts well. But I work on a Mac.
>
> I don't have the Syriac text hyphenated for the music, but it /is/ broken
> into the lines.
>
> Thanks in advance!

I was unable to get the suggested font working correctly, but your
feature request is now on the issue tracker:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=937

Sorry for the delay.  If you have any further examples to contribute,
I would be happy to add them to the tracker.

Thanks,
Patrick